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Plant origin and ploidy influence gene expression and life cycle characteristics in an invasive weed.
BMC plant biology - 23 Mar 2009
Broz Amanda K, Manter Daniel K, Bowman Gillianne, Müller-Schärer Heinz, Vivanco Jorge M
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BACKGROUND: Ecological, evolutionary and physiological studies have thus far provided an incomplete picture of why some plants become invasive; therefore we used genomic resources to complement and advance this field. In order to gain insight into the invasive mechanism of Centaurea stoebe we compared plants of three geo-cytotypes, native Eurasian diploids, native Eurasian tetraploids and introduced North...
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