Reconsidering plant memory: Intersections between stress recovery, RNA turnover, and epigenetics

Science Advances

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Crisp, Peter A ^a   Ganguly, Diep ^a   Eichten, Steven R ^a   Borevitz, Justin O ^a   Pogson, Barry J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RNA;

DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERTURBATIONS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NATURAL POPULATION; POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; RECOVERY PROCESS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RNA-DIRECTED DNA METHYLATIONS;

RECOVERY;

EXORIBONUCLEASE; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT RNA;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; RNA STABILITY;

EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EXORIBONUCLEASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84964940050     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1501340     Document Type: Review

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