What drives the shift between sexual and clonal reproduction of Caragana stenophylla along a climatic aridity gradient?

Abstract Background The reasons that clonal plants shift between sexual and clonal reproduction have persisted as a knowledge gap in ecological literature. We hypothesized that clonal plants’ shifts between sexual and clonal reproduction in different environments are driven by the relative costs of...

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Main Authors: Zhongwu Wang, Lina Xie, Chelse M. Prather, Hongyu Guo, Guodong Han, Chengcang Ma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-05-01
Series:BMC Plant Biology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12870-018-1313-6

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