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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Main Authors: Jacob J. Herman, Sonia E. Sultan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2011.00102/full