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Rubén Milla1, Adrianus J Westgeest2, Jorge Maestre-Villanueva1

  • 1ECOEVO Group, Departamento de Biología, Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global (IICG-URJC), Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Tulipán s/n, Móstoles, 28933, Spain.

The New phytologist
|May 17, 2024
PubMed
概括

农作物种子比它们的野生亲属更大,并且有更薄的种子外. 这项研究表明,虽然作物遵循一般的缩放趋势,但它们的种子外意外地更轻,这表明了超出简单化的复杂进化压力.

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