Clonal plasticity and diversity facilitates the adaptation of Rhododendron aureum Georgi to alpine environment.

Four small oval populations and five large intensive populations of Rhododendron aureum growing at the alpine in Changbai Mountain (China) were studied in two types of habitat (in the tundra and in Betula ermanii forest). Identification and delimitation of genets were inferred from excavation in sma...

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Main Authors: Xiaolong Wang, Wei Zhao, Lin Li, Jian You, Biao Ni, Xia Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5944948?pdf=render