Reconsidering plant memory: Intersections between stress recovery, RNA turnover, and epigenetics
Australian National University · Australian Research Council
Abstract
Plants grow in dynamic environments where they can be exposed to a multitude of stressful factors, all of which affect their development, yield, and, ultimately, reproductive success. Plants are adept at rapidly acclimating to stressful conditions and are able to further fortify their defenses by retaining memories of stress to enable stronger or more rapid responses should an environmental perturbation recur. Indeed, one mechanism that is often evoked regarding environmental memories is epigenetics. Yet, there are relatively few examples of such memories; neither is there a clear understanding of their duration, considering the plethora of stresses in nature. We propose that this field would benefit from…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 103.08
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 188
Authors
5- PAPeter A. Crisp
Australian National University, Australian Research Council
- DRDiep R Ganguly
Australian National University, Australian Research Council
- SRSteven R. Eichten
Australian National University, Australian Research Council
- JBJustin Borevitz
Australian National University, Australian Research Council
- BJBarry J. PogsonCorresponding
Australian National University, Australian Research Council
Topics & keywords
- Epigenetics
- Stress (linguistics)
- RNA
- Biology
- Computer science
- Computational biology
- Genetics
- Neuroscience