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Transgeneration memory of stress in plants

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  • Jean Molinier

    (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
    Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes)

  • Gerhard Ries

    (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
    BioMedinvestor AG)

  • Cyril Zipfel

    (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
    John Innes Centre)

  • Barbara Hohn

    (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research)

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.

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  • Jean Molinier & Gerhard Ries & Cyril Zipfel & Barbara Hohn, 2006. "Transgeneration memory of stress in plants," Nature, Nature, vol. 442(7106), pages 1046-1049, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:442:y:2006:i:7106:d:10.1038_nature05022
    DOI: 10.1038/nature05022
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