A gift from parent to offspring: transgenerational hormesis

Evgenios Agathokleous; Patrick H Brown; Edward J Calabrese

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2021.08.006

A gift from parent to offspring: transgenerational hormesis

Trends Plant Sci. 2021 Nov;26(11):1098-1100. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2021.08.006. Epub 2021 Sep 7.

Authors

Evgenios Agathokleous¹, Patrick H Brown², Edward J Calabrese³

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Agrometeorology of Jiangsu Province, Department of Ecology, School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), Nanjing 210044, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China. Electronic address: evgenios@nuist.edu.cn.
² Department of Plant Sciences, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
³ Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, Morrill I, N344, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.

PMID: 34507888
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2021.08.006

Abstract

Hormesis is a biological phenomenon characterized by opposite effects between low and high doses of stresses that can result in stimulatory and adaptive benefits to individuals within a population. While evidence of hormesis is well established, two recent studies (Nogueira et al., Belz and Sinkkonen) suggest that hormesis can also offer transgenerational benefit.

Keywords: adaptive response; biological plasticity; dose–response relationship; hormetic effect; transgenerational conditioning.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
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MeSH terms

Hormesis*