title: Ageing: How Do Long-Lived Plants Escape Mutational Meltdown?
abstract: Some plants can live for thousands of years, facing the problem of preventing accumulation of deleterious mutations. A recent study shows that massive tree stature requires surprisingly few stem cell divisions, and that the mutational load is not proportional to stature, but to branching order.
authors.affiliation: BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Edwin P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Groot
authors.affiliation: BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany. Electronic address: laux@biologie.uni-freiburg.de.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Laux
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D008957:Models, Genetic; D009154:Mutation; D063245:Plant Development; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics*; D012641:Selection, Genetic