How Plant Cold Specialists Can Adapt to the Environment

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International team of evolutionary biologists investigate genomic underpinnings for the adaptive potential of spoonworts

Spoonweeds at a karstic spring in the Lower Austrian Limestone Alps.
Spoonweeds at a karstic spring in the Lower Austrian Limestone Alps.

Plant cold specialists like the spoonworts have adapted well to the cold climates of the Ice Ages. As cold and warm periods alternated, they developed a number of species that also resulted in a proliferation of the genome. Evolutionary biologists from the universities of Heidelberg, Nottingham, and Prague studied the influence this genome duplication has on the adaptive potential of plants. ...

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