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Fungal Infection Increases the Rate of Somatic Mutation in Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris L.).
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Ranade Sonali Sachin, Ganea Laura-Stefana, Razzak Abdur M, García Gil M R
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Somatic mutations are transmitted during mitosis in developing somatic tissue. Somatic cells bearing the mutations can develop into reproductive (germ) cells and the somatic mutations are then passed on to the next generation of plants. Somatic mutations are a source of variation essential to evo...
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