The Stress as Inducer of Heritable Changes in Micropropagated Banana–The Hypothesis of Cytokinin Accumulation

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Vegetative plant propagation may lead to heritable phenotypic changes, a phenomenon known as somaclonal variation. The underlying molecular causes relay in the breakdown of a preexisting chimerism, or in the induction by stress of rather controlled chromatin remodeling at epigenomic and genomic levels, as well as in less extent mutations, generally considered to occur randomly. The controlled epigenetic alterations may facilitate subsequent concrete genome reorganizations and, both together, the occurrence of other DNA sequence mutations in genomic regions constitutively more labile or that become more exposed. Thus, chromatin remodeling, as a plastic response of plant to manage stress, is a controlled effect that may facilitate specific genome changes probably not so random. This should result in more frequent variant phenotypes (somaclones), such as the dwarf types of banana and plantain …

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2020

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