by Jonathan B Weitzman
RESEARCH ROUND-UP	Stress-induced recombination Email: Jonathan B Weitzman - jonathanweitzman@hotmail.com News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020219-01 Published   19 February 2002

Somatic recombination is a mechanism by which plants can acquire the genetic variability that enables them to respond to environmental stress conditions. In an Advanced Online Publication in Nature Genetics, Jan Lucht and colleagues report the effect of biotic stress on somatic recombination and plant genome stability (Nat Genet 2002, DOI:10.1038/ng846).

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