Unlike animals, plants are immobile and could not actively escape the effects of aggressive
environmental factors, such as pathogenic microorganisms, insect pests, parasitic plants …

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 …

The article presents information related to epigenetics. It is stated that epigenetics is often
broadly defined and vaguely used and is often applied to the study of chemical tags on DNA …

Epigenetics involves the heritable changes in patterns of gene expression determined by
developmental and abiotic stresses, ie, drought, cold, salinity, trace metals, and heat. Gene …

The current evolutionary biology theory primarily involves genetic alterations and random
DNA sequence mutations to generate the phenotypic variation required for Darwinian …

Epigenetic mechanisms such as DNA methylation, histone modifications and non-coding
RNAs are increasingly targeted in studies of natural populations. Here, I review some of the …

DNA methylation in plants affects transposon silencing, transcriptional regulation and thus
phenotypic variation. One unanswered question is whether DNA methylation could be …

Transgenerational effects that are interpreted in terms of epigenetics have become an
important research focus at a time when rapid environmental changes are occurring. These …

Being sessile organisms, plants show a high degree of developmental plasticity to cope with
a constantly changing environment. While plasticity in plants is largely controlled genetically …

Climate change is rapidly advancing spring phenology [1–3] but at different rates in different
species [1, 4]. Whether these advances are solely driven by phenotypic plasticity [2, 5] or …