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Project Baseline: An unprecedented resource to study plant evolution across space and time.
American journal of botany - 1 Jan 2016
Etterson Julie R, Franks Steven J, Mazer Susan J, Shaw Ruth G, Gorden Nicole L Soper, Schneider Heather E, Weber Jennifer J, Winkler Katharine J, Weis Arthur E
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Project Baseline is a seed bank that offers an unprecedented opportunity to examine spatial and temporal dimensions of microevolution during an era of rapid environmental change. Over the upcoming 50 years, biologists will withdraw genetically representative samples of past populations from this time capsule of seeds and grow them contemporaneously with modern samples to detect any...
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