Parental age affects somatic mutation rates in the progeny of flowering plants

Plant Physiology

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 247-257

  Singh, Amit Kumar ^a   Bashir, Tufail ^a   Sailer, Christian ^b   Gurumoorthy, Viswanathan ^a   Ramakrishnan, Ananthamaharasi ^a   Dhanapal, Shanmuhapreya ^a   Grossniklaus, Ueli ^b   Baskar, Ramamurthy ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL COUNT; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; FLOWER; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLOIDY; REPRODUCTION; SEEDLING;

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL COUNT; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; FLOWERS; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; PLOIDIES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; SEEDLINGS;

EID: 84981543798     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.00291     Document Type: Article

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