A controlled preparatory treatment that changes subsequent germination or stress responses; benefits and storage costs depend on the crop and treatment.
Variation among plants regenerated from cultured somatic cells; it can have genetic or epigenetic causes.
Methylation variation at an intronic retrotransposon associated with normal versus mantled oil-palm development; loss of methylation is associated with altered splicing and reduced yield.
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