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How plant cold specialists can adapt to the environment - EurekAlert


Evolutionary biologists from the universities of Heidelberg, Nottingham, and Prague studied spoonworts to determine what influence genome duplication has on the adaptive potential of plants. The results show that polyploids – species with more than two sets of chromosomes – can have an accumulation of structural mutations with signals for a possible local adaptation, enabling them to occupy ecological niches time and time again.

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