Plant BiologybioRxiv
Low Rate of Somatic Mutations in a Long-Lived Oak Tree
N. Sarkar, E. Schmid-Siegert, C. Iseli…·P. Reymond
The paper sequenced two branches of a 234-year-old oak tree and found few somatic mutations, suggesting shoot meristems are mutation-resistant.
DOI 10.1038/s41477-017-0066-9