ArticleCurrent biology : CB2016
Ageing: How Do Long-Lived Plants Escape Mutational Meltdown?
Article in Current biology : CB, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Somatic selection shapes mutation accumulation in Citrus sinensis.The Plant cell · 2026Article
- A review of plant epigenetics through the lens of almond.The plant genome · 2023Review
- Somatic Mutation Analysis in Salix suchowensis Reveals Early-Segregated Cell Lineages.Molecular biology and evolution · 2021Article
- A genome assembly and the somatic genetic and epigenetic mutation rate in a wild long-lived perennial Populus trichocarpa.Genome biology · 2020Article
- Do plants have a segregated germline?PLoS biology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Some plants can live for thousands of years, facing the problem of preventing accumulation of deleterious mutations. A recent study shows that massive tree stature requires surprisingly few stem cell divisions, and that the mutational load is not proportional to stature, but to branching order.
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