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Germline replications and somatic mutation accumulation are independent of vegetative life span in Arabidopsis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 25 Oct 2016
Watson J Matthew, Platzer Alexander, Kazda Anita, Akimcheva Svetlana, Valuchova Sona, Nizhynska Viktoria, Nordborg Magnus, Riha Karel
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In plants, gametogenesis occurs late in development, and somatic mutations can therefore be transmitted to the next generation. Longer periods of growth are believed to result in an increase in the number of cell divisions before gametogenesis, with a concomitant increase in mutations arising due to replication errors. However, there is little experimental evidence addressing how many cell divisions occur before...
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