Epigenetic diversity increases the productivity and stability of plant populations

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Latzel, Vít ^a,b   Allan, Eric ^a   Bortolini Silveira, Amanda ^c   Colot, Vincent ^c   Fischer, Markus ^a   Bossdorf, Oliver ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DICOTYLEDON; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; DNA METHYLATION; ECOLOGY; EPIGENETICS; MONOCULTURE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION PRODUCTIVITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT WEEDS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; SENECIO;

EID: 84889251436     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3875     Document Type: Article

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