Viral fitness determines the magnitude of transcriptomic and epigenomic reprogramming of defense responses in plants
R. L. Correa, A. Sanz-Carbonell, Z. Kogej, S. Muller, S. Lopez-Mogollon, G. Gomez, D. Baulcombe, S. F. Elena
The paper investigates how viral adaptation affects transcriptomic and epigenomic changes in Arabidopsis thaliana during antiviral responses, finding that DNA methylation and histone modifications play a role in defense.
bioRxiv · Dec 26, 2019Evolutionary Biology