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The karma of oil palms

Jerzy Paszkowski ()
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Jerzy Paszkowski: Jerzy Paszkowski is at the Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1LR, UK.

Nature, 2015, vol. 525, issue 7570, 466-467

Abstract: Despite their clonal origin, some oil palm trees develop fruits that give almost no oil. It emerges that the number of methyl groups attached to a DNA region called Karma determine which plants are defective. See Letter p.533

Date: 2015
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