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Maternal effects should be considered in the establishment of forestry plantations
2020-03-01
Abstract excerpt
Breeding strategies for plants focus on the genetic influence on their phenotypes. However, the phenotype is not only the outcome of the genotype or the environmental conditions under which plants grow. It is important to also recognise that the maternal environment has a significant effect on the phenotype of the offspring. These maternal effects represent a transgenerational form of phenotypic plasticity, transm...
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- Literature Corpus work
- e6f6350c-e127-5074-802e-bd77b67775cb
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.foreco.2020.117909