Broad-scale analysis contradicts the theory that generation time affects molecular evolutionary rates in plants.

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Several studies of plant taxa have concluded that generation time, including annual/perennial life history, may explain molecular evolutionary rate variation in selectively neutral DNA. Unlike in animals, there is little theoretical basis for why generation-time effects would exist in plants. Furthermore, previous reports fail to establish the generality of a generation-time effect in plants because of the small...

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