Evolution Coup: Study Reveals How Plants Protect Their Genes

Evolution Coup: Study Reveals How Plants Protect Their Genes
ScienceDaily (Sep. 11, 2009)

Unlike animals and humans, plants can't run and hide when exposed to stressful environmental conditions. So how do plants survive? A new UniversitÃ© de MontrÃ©al 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.

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