From Mediterranean coasts to Tatra Mountains and beyond: Plant chromosome number variation

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - 09:02 in Biology & Nature

It is well known that plants show huge variation in chromosome numbers, mainly because of multiple genome copies. One of the most intriguing issues in botany is to clarify the geographical pattern linked to this variation. In the research, the hypothesis that mean chromosome number in vascular plants increases at increasing latitude was tested.

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