Transgenerational stress memory is not a general response in Arabidopsis.

Adverse conditions can trigger DNA damage as well as DNA repair responses in plants. A variety of stress factors are known to stimulate homologous recombination, the most accurate repair pathway, by increasing the concentration of necessary enzymatic components and the frequency of events. This effe...

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Main Authors: Ales Pecinka, Marisa Rosa, Adam Schikora, Marc Berlinger, Heribert Hirt, Christian Luschnig, Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2668180?pdf=render