Plants facing oxidative challenges—A little help from the antioxidant networks

C Soares, MEA Carvalho, RA Azevedo… - … and Experimental Botany, 2019 - Elsevier
A large number of reviews have discussed many aspects of oxidative burst due to plant
exposure to biotic and abiotic stresses, including the dual role of reactive oxygen species …

Ecological plant epigenetics: Evidence from model and non‐model species, and the way forward

CL Richards, C Alonso, C Becker, O Bossdorf… - Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Growing evidence shows that epigenetic mechanisms contribute to complex traits, with
implications across many fields of biology. In plant ecology, recent studies have attempted to …

An integrative framework for understanding the mechanisms and multigenerational consequences of transgenerational plasticity

AM Bell, JK Hellmann - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Transgenerational plasticity (TGP) occurs when the environment experienced by a parent
influences the development of their offspring. In this article, we develop a framework for …

Epigenetics for crop improvement in times of global change

I Kakoulidou, EV Avramidou, M Baránek… - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Research on plant epigenetics aims to understand how endogenous,
biotic, and abiotic factors regulate plant development and growth independent of changes in …

Stress-induced flowering: the third category of flowering response

K Takeno - Journal of experimental botany, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The switch from vegetative growth to reproductive growth, ie flowering, is the critical event in
a plant's life. Flowering is regulated either autonomously or by environmental factors; …

Adaptive transgenerational plasticity in plants: case studies, mechanisms, and implications for natural populations

JJ Herman, SE Sultan - Frontiers in plant science, 2011 - frontiersin.org
Plants respond to environmental conditions not only by plastic changes to their own
development and physiology, but also by altering the phenotypes expressed by their …

Ecological stress memory and cross stress tolerance in plants in the face of climate extremes

J Walter, A Jentsch, C Beierkuhnlein… - … and Experimental Botany, 2013 - Elsevier
Under climate change, not only the magnitude, but also the frequency of extreme weather
events is predicted to increase. Such repeated climate stress events may cause fundamental …

DNA methylation mediates genetic variation for adaptive transgenerational plasticity

JJ Herman, SE Sultan - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Environmental stresses experienced by individual parents can influence offspring
phenotypes in ways that enhance survival under similar conditions. Although such adaptive …

Transgenerational epimutations induced by multi-generation drought imposition mediate rice plant's adaptation to drought condition

X Zheng, L Chen, H Xia, H Wei, Q Lou, M Li, T Li… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Epigenetic mechanisms are crucial mediators of appropriate plant reactions to adverse
environments, but their involvement in long-term adaptation is less clear. Here, we …

Salt stress induced variation in DNA methylation pattern and its influence on gene expression in contrasting rice genotypes

R Karan, T DeLeon, H Biradar, PK Subudhi - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Salinity is a major environmental factor limiting productivity of crop plants
including rice in which wide range of natural variability exists. Although recent evidences …