Plants monitor day/night and seasonal cycles to align their metabolism, growth, and development to changing environmental conditions.
This plasticity requires signal perception/integration, changing gene expression in response to those signals, and then maintenance of that response until conditions change again.
It is widely accepted that these processes are under tight epigenetic control.
Whether specific epigenetic changes have accompanied domestication is an exceptionally intriguing question of fundamental importance for plant breeding as it may facilitate breeding programmes by epigenetic engineering. Our crop of choice in the context of the above theme is chickpea, – a plant which offers good nutrition to people across the world.
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