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The evolution of parasitism in plants

Trends in Plant Science, 2010
The multiple independent origins of plant parasitism suggest that numerous ancestral plant lineages possessed the developmental flexibility to meet the requirements of a parasitic life style, including such adaptations as the ability to recognize host plants, form an invasive haustorium, and regulate the transfer of nutrients and other molecules ...
James H, Westwood   +3 more
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Epigenetics and plant evolution

New Phytologist, 2005
SummaryA fundamental precept of evolutionary biology is that natural selection acts on phenotypes determined by DNA sequence variation within natural populations. Recent advances in our understanding of gene regulation, however, have elucidated a spectrum of epigenetic molecular phenomena capable of altering the temporal, spatial, and abundance ...
Ryan A, Rapp, Jonathan F, Wendel
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