Epigenetic memory effects in forest trees: a victory of "Michurinian biology"?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43410%2F17%3A43912940" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43410/17:43912940 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/forj-2017-0024" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1515/forj-2017-0024</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/forj-2017-0024" target="_blank" >10.1515/forj-2017-0024</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Epigenetic memory effects in forest trees: a victory of "Michurinian biology"?

Original language description

The study reviews trait inheritance, which is in contradiction with the rules of Mendelian genetics, and which was object of controversies among biologists (sometimes with grave political consequences) in the USSR and Soviet-controlled countries in the 1930s-1960s. Carryover or memory effects of the climate, to which maternal trees are exposed during seed development, on phenological behavior and other adaptively relevant traits of their offspring in conifers are mentioned; similar effects are associated with the germination and early growth environment. Molecular mechanisms underlying these effects include covalent modifications of DNA or DNA-associated proteins (cytosine methylation, various types of histone modifications), micro-RNAs and small interfering RNAs. Tools for the identification of these modifications are reviewed with a focus on cytosine methylation, along with an overview of the hitherto knowledge on the occurrence of DNA modifications in forest trees. The practical implications of epigenetic inheritance in forest trees are discussed with the focus on the adaptation to climate change and legislation on forest reproductive materials.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40102 - Forestry

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Central European Forestry Journal

ISSN

2454-034X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

63

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

173-179

UT code for WoS article

000457942600002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85038559622