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Published on: August 5, 2020
Phenotypic, epigenetic, and fitness diversity within plant genotypes
1Departamento de Bioloxía Funcional, Área de Ecoloxía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Rúa Lope Gómez de Marzoa, s/n., 15782 Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.
Abstract:
Plant plastic responses to environmental variation, at scales smaller than the individual plant size, promote phenotypic and epigenetic diversity among repeated structures within genotypes. Different epigenetic marks in the somatic line can translate to the germline and seeds, generating a fitness patchwork in the progeny with unexplored effects on plant evolutionary dynamics.
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