Inheritance of reversions to male fertility in male-sterile sorghum hybrids with 9E male-sterile cytoplasm induced by environmental conditions

Epigenetic‐induced alterations in sex‐ratios in response to climate change: An epigenetic trap?

“…Epigenetic modifications associated with floral initiation and development can also occur indirectly, in pathways through which plants control stress tolerance . In this way, environmental stress could potentially affect flowering by indirect effects in other traits such as reversion of male sterility under drought stress or induction of pseudovivipary , which ultimately influence the induction of dioecy from hermaphrodites. In fact, it has been hypothesized that dioecy and sex chromosomes originated, both in plants and animals , from ancestral diploid hermaphrodites through the occurrence of a differentially methylated region near to a sex‐controlling loci between a pair of otherwise genetically identical autosomes.…”