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New paper co-authored by Dr Hern谩n Burbano reveals climate change effects on plant genetic diversity
28 August 2019
'Natural selection on the Arabidopsis thaliana genome in present and future climates.'
The research, published in Nature, investigated听populations of the thale cress plant听Arabidopsis thaliana听collected from over 500 geographic locations in Europe, commonly used for biological research. Growing these plants in Spain and Germany under rainfall-reduction conditions revealed how individual plants responded to heat and drought.听
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Authors: Moises Exposito-Alonso, 500 Genomes Field Experiment Team, Hern谩n A. Burbano, Oliver Bossdorf, Rasmus Nielsen, Detlef Weigel
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