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Aug 2026
Age-driven regulation of plant specialized metabolism: integration of transcriptional, hormonal, and epigenetic signals
DNA methylation acts not only as a plant epigenetic clock, but also as an important regulatory mechanism during leaf senescence, fruit ripening, and chronological aging, and how hormonal and environmental cues interact with age pathways to modulate metabolic outputs is examined.
Xinyi Wang, Jing-Yu Wang, Jia-Shu Li et al.
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