diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 72c780fc0..5a2ea45c9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.3.0.dev
 -----------------------------------
 
-- introduce a generic "markers" object on Nodes and request objects
-  to allow for reading and manipulation of MarkInfo objects previously
-  set with calls to pytest.mark.* classes.
+- introduce a generic "markers" object on Nodes and a request.node
+  attribute pointing to the scope-specific collection node of a request.
+  node.markers allows reading and manipulating of MarkInfo objects
+  previously attached with @pytest.mark.* or request.applymarker or
+  setattr(node.markers, name, pytest.mark.*) calls.
 - fix issue185 monkeypatching time.time does not cause pytest to fail
 - fix issue172 duplicate call of pytest.setup-decoratored setup_module
   functions
diff --git a/_pytest/python.py b/_pytest/python.py
index e569ed50e..48ee6ae7d 100644
--- a/_pytest/python.py
+++ b/_pytest/python.py
@@ -962,8 +962,9 @@ class FuncargRequest:
         self._factorystack = []
 
     @property
-    def markers(self):
-        return self._getscopeitem(self.scope).markers
+    def node(self):
+        """ underlying collection node (depends on request scope)"""
+        return self._getscopeitem(self.scope)
 
     def _getfaclist(self, argname):
         facdeflist = self._name2factory.get(argname, None)
@@ -1017,7 +1018,7 @@ class FuncargRequest:
 
     @property
     def keywords(self):
-        """ dictionary of markers (readonly). """
+        """ (deprecated, use node.markers class) dictionary of markers. """
         return self._pyfuncitem.keywords
 
     @property
@@ -1051,8 +1052,7 @@ class FuncargRequest:
         """
         if not isinstance(marker, py.test.mark.XYZ.__class__):
             raise ValueError("%r is not a py.test.mark.* object")
-        setattr(self.markers, marker.markname, marker)
-        #self._pyfuncitem.keywords[marker.markname] = marker
+        setattr(self.node.markers, marker.markname, marker)
 
     def raiseerror(self, msg):
         """ raise a FuncargLookupError with the given message. """
diff --git a/testing/test_python.py b/testing/test_python.py
index b9644eb87..8ce5e8b50 100644
--- a/testing/test_python.py
+++ b/testing/test_python.py
@@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ class TestMarking:
             import pytest
             @pytest.factory()
             def markers(request):
-                return request.markers
+                return request.node.markers
             @pytest.mark.XYZ
             def test_function(markers):
                 assert markers.XYZ is not None
@@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ class TestMarking:
             import pytest
             @pytest.factory()
             def markers(request):
-                return request.markers
+                return request.node.markers
 
             @pytest.setup(scope="class")
             def marking(request):