B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal

Senescence: detecting an evolutionary fingerprint in plants



Authors: Jon E. Brommer

Publication year: 2014

Journal: Current Biology

Journal name in source: Current biology : CB

Journal acronym: Curr Biol

Volume: 24

Issue: 7

First page : R267

Last page: R269

Number of pages: 3

ISSN: 1879-0445

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.02.045


Abstract

The evolution of a senescent decline in the performance of organisms as they grow old is thought to be an unavoidable aspect of life. A genotype-age interaction in performance is the 'fingerprint' of evolved senescence, which has now for the first time been detected in a plant.




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