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How Strawberries Remember and Respond to Heat Stress
Jenn Hoskins
17th May, 2024
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Key Findings
- The study focused on woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca) and examined how heat stress-induced DNA methylation changes are inherited
- Heat stress-induced DNA methylation changes were found to be heritable primarily through asexual reproduction
- Clonally propagated daughter plants retained the stress-induced epigenetic changes, suggesting they can "remember" the stress experienced by the parent plant
References
Main Study
1) Epigenomic and transcriptomic persistence of heat stress memory in strawberry (Fragaria vesca)
Published 16th May, 2024
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-024-05093-6
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