Evolution Heresy? Epigenetics Underlies Heritable Plant Traits

2013/09/05 by Elizabeth Pennisi · 1 citation
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Plant Molecular Biology Research #Epigenetics #Biology #Evolutionary biology #Genetics #Plant evolution #Plant biology #Plant genetics #Genome #Gene #Botany

paper · doi:10.1126/science.341.6150.1055

openalex publication_date 2013/09/05 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23

Abstract

A study presented at an evolutionary biology meeting found that heritable changes in plant flowering time and other traits were not the result of DNA sequence changes but chemical modifications to the DNA.

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