Adaptive transgenerational plasticity in plants: case studies, mechanisms, and implications for natural populations
Plants respond to environmental conditions not only by plastic changes to their own development and physiology, but also by altering the phenotypes expressed by their offspring. This transgenerational plasticity was initially considered to entail only negative effects of stressful parental environme...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2011-12-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Plant Science |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2011.00102/full |