{"id":690790,"date":"2021-05-20T13:46:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T17:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=690790"},"modified":"2021-05-20T13:46:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T17:46:39","slug":"how-plants-leave-behind-their-parents-genomic-baggage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=690790","title":{"rendered":"How plants leave behind their parents&#039; genomic baggage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passing down a healthy genome is a critical part of creating viable offspring. But what happens when you have harmful modifications in your genome that you don&#8217;t want to pass down? Baby plants have evolved a method to wipe the slate clean and reinstall only the modifications that they need to grow and develop. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professor &amp; HHMI Investigator Rob Martienssen and his collaborators, Jean-S\u00e9bastien Parent and Institut de Recherche pour le D\u00e9veloppement Universit\u00e9 de Montpellier scientist Daniel Grimanelli, discovered one of the genes responsible for reinstalling modifications in a baby plant&#8217;s genome.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-05-parents-genomic-baggage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">How plants leave behind their parents&#8217; genomic baggage<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passing down a healthy genome is a critical part of creating viable offspring. But what happens when you have harmful modifications in your genome that you don&#8217;t want to pass&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}