Senescence: detecting an evolutionary fingerprint in plants.
The evolution of a senescent decline in the performance of organisms as they grow old is thought to be an unavoidable aspect of life. A genotype-age interaction in performance is the 'fingerprint' of evolved senescence, which has now for the first time been detected in a plant.
Department of Biology, University Hill, 20014 University of Turku, Turku, Finland. Electronic address: jon.brommer@utu.fi.
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D016922:Cellular Senescence / Q000235:genetics*; D029751:Silene / Q000235:genetics*