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technology and the participation of more researchers, numerous fundamental

phenomena of plant metabolism and stress response will undoubtedly be

dug out in the near future. How do stresses produce chromatin alterations

and subsequent transcriptional modifications via regulating epigenetic

machinery Reprogramming is a difficult concept to grasp? It’s unclear how

stress affects epigenetic machinery, causing chromatin alterations and subse­

quent transcriptional reprogramming. It’s also unclear how stress-related

epigenetic modifications might be passed down to progeny as a means of

stress retention. Without a doubt, future research should focus on decoding

the secret language of abiotic stress in plants impacting epigenetics. The

epigenomes of a growing number of plants that are exploited, thanks to rapid

advances in automated large-scale sequencing as well as diverse chromatin

profiling machinery that could immensely expand the number of research

findings on plants’ reshaping in response to stress utilizing epigenetic.

KEYWORDS

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abiotic stress

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DNA methylation

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epigenetics

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histone modification

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post-translational modification

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reactive oxygen species

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small RNA

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