FIGURE 3.

Different phenotypes representing the importance of splicing memory in plants. Once exposed to stressful conditions, plants develop an adaptive componenet of induced resistance defined as stress-priming. Stress-induced chromatin modifications plays a crucial role in stress-priming and likely help in establishing a splicing memory, which in turn facilitates plant survival upon exposure to recurring stresses (upper panel). In the absence of priming (lower panel) and splicing memory, plants may die once the stress reoccur. Different phenotypes shown are based on Ling et al. (2018) and Sanyal et al. (2018).