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Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance in Plants

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Epigenetic Memory and Control in Plants

Part of the book series: Signaling and Communication in Plants ((SIGCOMM,volume 18))

Abstract

Epigenetics is broadly defined as the heritable change in gene expression without base sequence alteration. Heritable epigenetic changes commonly occur from cell to cell in an individual organism during development. Whether or not they occur from individual to individual, or across generation, has long been a matter of argument, but recent surveys suggest it to be positive. One of the underlying mechanisms is thought to be DNA methylation. Many studies have suggested that phenotype and DNA methylation patterns simultaneously change upon environmental stresses and are occasionally transmitted to the progeny. Here, we filtered each case through three conditions: phenotypic changes, i.e., acquired characters are beneficial for the organism; inheritance extends, at least, over three generations; and responsible genes are identified. Few cases fulfill these conditions demonstrating the cause–effect relationship between methylation of causative genes and phenotypic changes. Nevertheless the findings indicate that, under certain circumstances, acquired traits are heritable over generations and may play critical roles in evolution.

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The authors thank Prof. Yong Eui Choi, Kangwon National University, for helping the present project. This work was supported by the WCU project of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Korea, and by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

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Sano, H., Kim, HJ. (2013). Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance in Plants. In: Grafi, G., Ohad, N. (eds) Epigenetic Memory and Control in Plants. Signaling and Communication in Plants, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35227-0_11

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