Ageing: How Do Long-Lived Plants Escape Mutational Meltdown?

作者:Groot Edwin P; Laux Thomas*
来源:Current Biology, 2016, 26(13): R530-R532.
DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2016.05.049

摘要

Some plants can live for thousands of years, facing the problem of preventing accumulation of deleterious mutations. A recent study shows that massive tree stature requires surprisingly few stem cell divisions, and that the mutational load is not proportional to stature, but to branching order.

  • 出版日期2016-7-11