Understanding somatic mutation in plants: new methods, new software, new data.

随着植物的生长，体细胞突变会积累起来，影响从短期生态互动到长期进化动态的一切。这些突变对植物产业和保护具有重要影响，但由于它们如此难以测量，人们对它们几乎一无所知。该项目旨在开发新的方法和软件来检测、分析和比较个体植物体细胞突变的全基因组历史，为了解一个重要但未被充分研究的生物变异来源提供前所未有的详细程度。通过将这些方法应用于一个标志性的实验种群，该项目旨在提供对植物体细胞突变的全基因组原因和后果的首次洞察。

Somatic mutations accumulate as plants grow, affecting everything from short-term ecological interactions to long-term evolutionary dynamics. These mutations have important consequences for plant industry and conservation, but because they are so hard to measure almost nothing is known about them. This project aims to develop new methods and software to detect, analyse, and compare the genome-wide history of somatic mutation in individual plants, providing an unprecedented level of detail into an important but understudied source of biological variation. By applying these methods to an iconic experimental population, This project aims to provide the first insights into the genome-wide causes and consequences of somatic mutation in plants.