Evolution coup: Study reveals how plants protect their genes
Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 12:49
in Biology & Nature
Unlike animals and humans, plants can't run and hide when exposed to stressful environmental conditions. So how do plants survive? A new Universite de Montreal study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has found a key mechanism that enables plants to keep dangerous gene alterations in check to ensure their continued existence...