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A cline in seed dormancy helps conserve the environment experienced during reproduction across the range of Arabidopsis thaliana.
American journal of botany - 1 Jan 2016
Burghardt Liana T, Metcalf C Jessica E, Donohue Kathleen
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Understanding the factors shaping range limits is critical given current changes in climate as well as human-mediated introduction of species into novel environments. Phenological responses to climate influence range limits by allowing plants to avoid conditions that decrease population growth rates. Studying these processes is a challenge due to the joint contributions of both genetic and...
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