• Biology, Medicine
• Published in Annals of botany 2005
• DOI:10.1093/aob/mci061

Evolutionary transition from resprouter to seeder life history in two Erica (Ericaceae) species: insights from seedling axillary buds.

@article{Verdaguer2005EvolutionaryTF,
  title={Evolutionary transition from resprouter to seeder life history in two Erica (Ericaceae) species: insights from seedling axillary buds.},
  author={Dolors Sol{\'e} Verdaguer and Fernando Ruiz de Ojeda},
  journal={Annals of botany},
  year={2005},
  volume={95 4},
  pages={
          593-9
        }
}

• Dolors Solé Verdaguer, Fernando Ruiz de Ojeda

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The genus Erica represents the epitome of plant biodiversity in the South African Cape region. It includes seeder and resprouter species, but both species diversity and narrow endemism are tightly associated with the seeder habit. It also includes 'mixed' species, in which both seeder and resprouter life histories are found. This intraspecific variation in life history is genetically based. METHODS The cotyledonary region and basal stem of seeder and resprouter seedlings… CONTINUE READING

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