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Can soil seed banks serve as genetic memory? A study of three species with contrasting life history strategies
- 1.0390596 - BÚ 2013 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Mandák, Bohumil - Zákravský, Petr - Mahelka, Václav - Plačková, Ivana
Can soil seed banks serve as genetic memory? A study of three species with contrasting life history strategies.
PLoS ONE. Roč. 7, č. 11 (2012). ISSN 1932-6203. E-ISSN 1932-6203
R&D Projects: GA AV ČR IAA600050707; GA ČR(CZ) GAP504/11/0402
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z60050516
Keywords : seed bank * genetic memory * allozymes
Subject RIV: EF - Botanics
Impact factor: 3.730, year: 2012
We have shown that the summer seed bank is not genetically depleted by spring germination and that a majority of genetic diversity remains in the soil through summer. We suggest that seed banks in the species investigated play an important role by maintaining genetic diversity sufficient for recovery rather than by accumulating new genetic diversity at each locality.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0219637
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