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Developmental cues and environmental signals remodel the chromatin structure, thus affecting various processes, including flowering time, imprinting, floral development, and biotic and abiotic stress responses in plants. Chromatin remodeling through histone tail post-translational modifications, DNA methylation, and ATP-dependent nucleosome reorganization represents a ubiquitous mechanism to regulate gene expression. Most of the epigenetic and epigenomic studies for the regulation of gene expression in response to developmental and environmental stimuli have been carried out in Arabidopsis. Although genetic modifications have been used for crop improvement, however, the epigenetic modifications are at their beginning. In this chapter, we summarize the roles of chromatin-remodeling mechanisms in response to environmental stimuli and discuss their potential for crop improvement.

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Shafiq, S., Khan, A.R. (2015). Plant Epigenetics and Crop Improvement. In: Barh, D., Khan, M., Davies, E. (eds) PlantOmics: The Omics of Plant Science. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2172-2_6

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