Natural variation in plants articles within Nature Reviews Genetics

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• Review Article | 03 July 2017

  Exploiting induced and natural epigenetic variation for crop improvement

  To unlock the potential of epigenetic variation for crop improvement, it will be crucial to understand how epigenetic variation is established and how it is stably inherited across generations. Springer and Schmitz review these challenges, the different sources of epigenetic variation in plants, and how epigenome profiling and engineering could help to improve crops.

  • Nathan M. Springer
  •  & Robert J. Schmitz

• Research Highlight | 05 June 2017

  Branching out for crop improvement

  • Darren J. Burgess

• Review Article | 18 November 2010

  Towards identifying genes underlying ecologically relevant traits in Arabidopsis thaliana

  This article assesses the alternative methods for identifying natural alleles that control quantitative traits inArabidopsis thaliana, with a particular emphasis on the need to adapt study designs to account for the context of ecology and adaptation in nature.

  • Joy Bergelson
  •  & Fabrice Roux