Rapid Evolution Helps Plants Disperse in Disrupted Environments (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Rapid Evolution Helps Plants Disperse in Disrupted Environments (2 of 2)

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Falling Arapidopsis thaliana seeds. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 29, 2016, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.L. Williams at University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada, and colleagues was titled, 'Rapid evolution accelerates plant population spread in fragmented experimental landscapes.'

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Frida Feijen and Nicky Lustenhouwer

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