CASCADE OF TRAITS. “Even more varied yet poorly understood is the gamut of short-term evolutionary responses to polyploidy at other “omics” levels, including a diverse suite of epigenomic and small RNA alterations with cascading effects that propagate through proteomic, physiological, and metabolomic networks to ultimately affect plant phenotype and function.”
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