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Cellular aspects of growth have traditionally not been part of alpine plant ecology. It was perhaps taken as self-evident that once plants are in an active phase of life and sufficient carbon assimilates are present at meristems, plants would grow new cells.
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Körner, C. (2021). Cell division and tissue formation. In: Alpine Plant Life. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59538-8_14
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