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Robert L Baker1, Pamela K Diggle

  • 1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, 80309, USA. Robert.Baker@colorado.edu

American Journal of Botany
|November 30, 2011
PubMed
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Mimulus guttatus shoot architecture reveals that branching occurs early at basal nodes, while flowering shifts distally in perennials. Developmental timing, not meristem limitation, drives differences in annual and perennial plants.

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