Enforced clonality confers a fitness advantage

In largely clonal plants, splitting of a maternal plant into potentially independent plants (ramets) is usually spontaneous; however, such fragmentation also occurs in otherwise non-clonal species due to application of external force. This process might play an important yet largely overlooked role...

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Main Authors: Jana eMartínková, Jitka eKlimešová
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2016.00002/full