Digest: Transgenerational stress memory mechanisms in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Gregory Ian RobinsonJohn Wesley Robinson

Published in: Evolution; international journal of organic evolution (2020)

Arabidopsis thaliana accessions have shown genetic diversity and type of stressor to be important determinants of transgenerational stress memory. Alvarez et al. found that certain accessions showed reversible phenotypic plasticity, supporting a model of transgenerational stress memory based upon epigenetic changes. The main proposed epigenetic regulators include DNA methylation, histone modifications, and RNA silencing via small noncoding RNA.

Keyphrases

arabidopsis thaliana
dna methylation
genetic diversity
gene expression
working memory
genome wide
stress induced
transcription factor
nucleic acid