Epigenetics for Climate-Smart and Sustainable Agriculture, Jen-Tsung Chen, Editör, CAB International , Oxford, ss.41-60, 2025
Increasing knowledge of how plants perceive environmental stimuli, including the mechanisms of cellular signaling and gene expression cascades, provides evidence that plants can remember past environmental events. The use of these memories to enhance responses in situations where developmental stages or stress conditions must be repeated and their ability to be inherited through cell divisions reveals a potential mechanism for stress memory in plants. Recent evidence indicates that stress-associated epigenetic mechanisms are essential for plant stress memories and various adaptation mechanisms. This chapter discusses the importance of turning on and off the transcriptional profiles of stress-related genes, particularly in understanding various types of plant abiotic stress memories regulated by epigenetic changes. In addition, the chapter draws attention to the lack of information on how stress memory is transferred and points out that the regulatory mechanisms in plants can only be understood by deciphering the memory mechanisms.