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INTELLIGENT. "Our results suggest that plants are intelligent organisms capable of performing a sort of thinking process (understood as at the same time and non-stress conditions capable of performing several different scenarios of possible future definitive responses), and capable of memorizing this training." http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/psb.5.11.13243#abstract View in LinkedIn

FUNCTION. "Gene body methylation seems to be an ancient property of eukaryotic genomes and it might be involved in the prevention of transcriptional initiation within the gene body." http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/62/11/3713.full View in LinkedIn

EPIGENETIC METHYLATION MARKERS. "Both in monocots (rice) and in dicots (Arabidopsis and poplar), CG methylation, but not CHG or CHH methylation, exhibits a peak in the body of protein-coding genes. Exons tend to be more highly methylated than introns, and the end of the gene shows a similar drop in methylation to the gene's promoter region." http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/62/11/3713.full View in LinkedIn

EPIGENETICS. "How a single plant genotype can result in a variety of phenotypic outcomes under the same in vitro culture conditions is still far from being completely understood. While underlying mutations in DNA sequence have been pointed out as a likely cause of phenotypic variation, it is also becoming clear that a major role is played by epigenetic regulation." http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/62/11/3713.full View in LinkedIn

"PLANT CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION has been mostly studied in protoplast systems. In such experimental systems dedifferentiation can be resolved into acquisition of competence for pluripotentiality and signal-dependent re-entry into S phase, each phase being accompanied by a broad chromatin decondensation. For reactivation of the cell cycle it is usually necessary that plant growth regulators are applied, but this occurs independently from the acquisition of competence for pluripotentiality." http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/62/11/3713.full View in LinkedIn

PLANT DEDIFFERENTIATION. "In response to specific environmental signals, cells acquire competence to switch fate which is accomplished by going through a dedifferentiation process followed by the implementation of a new developmental pathway. This sequence of events is accompanied by changes at the chromatin level and reprogramming of gene expression, highlighting the central role of epigenetic regulation in these processes." http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/62/11/3713.full View in LinkedIn