How plants see themselves - self-incompatibility in flowering plants

Michael Wheeler, Frederick Franklin

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Abstract

Plants have been propagating themselves by cloning for millennia. It is, however, widely recognised that mixing genes with other individuals of the same species makes better evolutionary sense, as it provides the variation that is the raw material for natural selection. How, then, do some plants prevent self-fertilisation?
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)68-72
Number of pages5
JournalBiologist
Volume49
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2002

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