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Abstract
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.Mesh:
Year: 2016 PMID: 27404239 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.05.049
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Biol ISSN: 0960-9822 Impact factor: 10.834