Adaptive epigenetic memory of ancestral temperature regime in Arabidopsis thaliana

Botany

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 650-657

  Whittle, C A ^a   Otto, S P ^b   Johnston, M O ^c   Krochko, J E ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Environment; Epigenetic; Heat stress; Plants; Transgenerational

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANCESTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FITNESS; GENETICS; HERB; HERITABILITY; MEMORY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 68149092368     PISSN: 19162804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/B09-030     Document Type: Article

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