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Grasses Can Acquire Genes from Neighboring Plants

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Inflorescences of Alloteropsis semialata (left) and Themeda triandra (right), in woody savannahs in Zambia and Sri Lanka. The study demonstrated that genome fragments of T. triandra were incorporated into the genome of populations of A. semialata found in Australia.

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© PA Christin & LT Dunning

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