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The karma of oil palms

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Despite their clonal origin, some oil palm trees develop fruits that give almost no oil. It emerges that the number of methyl groups attached to a DNA region called Karma determine which plants are defective. See Letter p.533

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Figure 1: A mechanism for mantling.

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