Maintenance of Genome Integrity: DNA Damage Sensing, Signaling, Repair and Replication in Plants

• Main Author: Anca Macovei (auth)
• Other Authors: Alma Balestrazzi (auth), Ayako N. Sakamoto (auth), V. Mohan Murali Achary (auth), Kaoru Okamoto Yoshiyama (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Botany & plant sciences; replication; Ionizing radiation; Cell Cycle; DNA Repair; Cell Death; Genome integrity; DNA Damage; Double Strand Breaks
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Environmental stresses and metabolic by-products can severely affect the integrity of genetic information by inducing DNA damage and impairing genome stability. As a consequence, plant growth and productivity are irreversibly compromised. To overcome genotoxic injury, plants have evolved complex str...