Wheeler Mike, Franklin Chris
Wolfson Laboratory for Plant Molecular Biology, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, UK.
Biologist (London). 2002 Apr;49(2):68-72.
Plants have been propagating themselves by cloning for millennia. It is, however, widely recognised that mixing genes with other individuals of the same species makes better evolutionary sense, as it provides the variation that is the raw material for natural selection. How, then, do some plants prevent self-fertilisation?
数千年来,植物一直通过克隆进行自我繁殖。然而,人们普遍认识到,将基因与同一物种的其他个体混合,从进化角度来看更有意义,因为它提供了作为自然选择原材料的变异。那么,一些植物是如何防止自花受精的呢?