Soybeans seem to inherit the bad memories of their parents

When soybean plants survive attacks from insects and periods of drought, they remember. While plants don’t remember in the way animals do, research out of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station shows that soybean plants can pass on adaptive responses to stress—like those caused by hungry insects—across generations without changing their DNA.

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