Aging in a long-lived clonal tree

PLoS Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 19-20

  Ally, Dilara ^a,b   Ritland, Kermit ^b   Otto, Sarah P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED TREE; AGING; ANTHER; ARTICLE; ASPEN; CANADA; CLONE; FLOWER; NONHUMAN; PLANT REPRODUCTION; POLLEN GERMINATION; POLLEN TUBE GROWTH; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; SENESCENCE; SOMATIC MUTATION; CELL CLONE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; TIME; TREE;

METAZOA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CLONE CELLS; MUTATION; POPULUS; REPRODUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 77956823261     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000454     Document Type: Article

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