Evolution of plant senescence

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Senescence is integral to the flowering plant life-cycle. Senescence-like processes occur also in non-angiosperm land plants, algae and photosynthetic prokaryotes. Increasing numbers of genes have been assigned functions in the regul...

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Main Authors: Young Mike, Huang Lin, Thomas Howard, Ougham Helen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-07-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/9/163