Transgeneration memory of stress in plants

Jean Molinier, Gerhard Ries, Cyril Zipfel and Barbara Hohn ()
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Jean Molinier: Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
Gerhard Ries: Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
Cyril Zipfel: Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
Barbara Hohn: Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research

Nature, 2006, vol. 442, issue 7106, 1046-1049

Abstract: Leafy Legacy Plants can't run from unpleasantness such as too much or too little heat or light. Instead they show varying degrees of tolerance by reacting to stress with a range of physiological responses. Surprisingly, when Arabidopsis thaliana plants are exposed to stress (UV light or a chemical mimicking pathogenic attack), changes are seen not only in the treated plants but also in several generations of their untreated offspring. The plants 'remember' the stress, presumably using an as-yet unknown epigenetic mechanism. Echoes, but only echoes, of the discredited lamarckian idea of chromosomal inheritance of acquired traits.

Date: 2006
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