ACCUMULATED MUTATIONS. “However, in most cases, the gradual accumulation of deleterious mutations during growth is more likely to negatively influence fitness because these mutations can be potentially transmitted from shoot meristems to gametes when flowering occurs. As long as somatic mutations do not limit clonal growth, they should accumulate over the life span of genets.”
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/29/8859.full
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022