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Molecular and cellular mechanisms of diversity within grapevine varieties.
Heredity - 1 Apr 2010
Pelsy F
Abstract excerpt
A grapevine variety consists of an array of clones descended by vegetative propagation from a single selected vine grown from a single seedling. A majority of the clones within a variety are identical, but some can show divergent genotypes and, to some extent, divergent phenotypes. Polymorphism results mainly from somatic mutations that occur naturally during plant growth. Various types of mutations were shown to...
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