Poplar trees in Oregon (IMAGE)

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Poplar trees in Oregon

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Using trees as a model, researchers of the TUM and of the University of Georgia, USA, have shown for the first time that epimutations accumulate continuously throughout plant development and that this information can be used as a molecular clock to estimate the age of a tree.

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Robert Schmitz

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