Maintenance of genome stability in plants: repairing DNA double strand breaks and chromatin structure stability
Plant cells are subject to high levels of DNA damage resulting from plant’s obligatory dependence on sunlight and the associated exposure to environmental stresses like solar UV radiation, high soil salinity, drought, chilling injury and other air and soil pollutants including heavy metals and metab...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2014-09-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Plant Science |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2014.00487/full |