Environs prompt advantageous gene mutations as plants grow; changes passed to progeny

Friday, July 1, 2011 - 13:30 in Biology & Nature

Researchers have found that the environment not only weeds out harmful and useless genetic mutations in plants through natural selection, but actually influences helpful mutations, and that these beneficial changes are passed on to the next generation.

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