Hyperosmotic priming of Arabidopsis seedlings establishes a long-term somatic memory accompanied by specific changes of the epigenome

Genome Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Sani, Emanuela ^a,c   Herzyk, Pawel ^a   Perrella, Giorgio ^a   Colot, Vincent ^b   Amtmann, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; EPIGENETICS; FRACTIONATION; GENOME; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HYPEROSMOTIC STRESS; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GROWTH; PROTEIN TARGETING; SEEDLING; SODIUM TRANSPORT; DNA METHYLATION; DROUGHT; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; SALINITY;

ARABIDOPSIS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA METHYLATION; DROUGHTS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HISTONES; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; SALINITY; SEEDLING; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84878894271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-6-r59     Document Type: Article

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