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Casper J van der Kooi1, Peter G Kevan2, Matthew H Koski3

  • 1Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.

Annals of Botany
|June 18, 2019
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Abiotic effectsclimateevolutionfecundityflower colourheliotropismmorphologypollinationreproductiontemperature

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