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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2014

Epigenetic regulation in plant responses to the environment.

David C Baulcombe, Caroline Dean

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 119 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

119 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Role of the Genetic Background in Resistance to Plant Viruses.International journal of molecular sciences · 2018
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  8. Reversibility of sex changes in the plant kingdom: more important than we thought?Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025
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  20. Transgenerational increases in DNA methylation in Arabidopsis plants defective in active DNA demethylation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

David C BaulcombeDepartment of Plant Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, United Kingdom.
Caroline DeanDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/J/00000581
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this article, we review environmentally mediated epigenetic regulation in plants using two case histories. One of these, vernalization, mediates adaptation of plants to different environments and it exemplifies processes that are reset in each generation. The other, virus-induced silencing, involves transgenerationally inherited epigenetic modifications. Heritable epigenetic marks may result in heritable phenotypic variation, influencing fitness, and so be subject to natural selection. However, unlike genetic inheritance, the epigenetic modifications show instability and are influenced by the environment. These two case histories are then compared with other phenomena in plant biology that are likely to represent epigenetic regulation in response to the environment.

Indexed as

Epigenesis, GeneticPlant Physiological PhenomenaDNA MethylationEnvironmentGene Expression Regulation, PlantGene SilencingGreen Fluorescent ProteinsHistonesPhenotypePlant DiseasesPlantsPolycomb-Group ProteinsPromoter Regions, GeneticRNA, Small InterferingSelection, GeneticStochastic ProcessesGreen Fluorescent ProteinsHistonesPolycomb-Group ProteinsRNA, Small Interfering

Identifiers

PMID25183832
PMCPMC4142964

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