Pando, an enormous quaking aspen that spans more than 100 acres (40 hectares) in Utah, is not only one of the largest known ...

Aspen form individual patches comprised of numerous stems, termed ramets, each with its own trunk, branches, leaves and a shared root system (Figure 2). All of these structures arose from a single ...

Conceptual model of somatic mutation inheritance between ramets within an aspen clone. When a mutation arises, we expect it to propagate down to the new tissues as the clone continues to grow. New ...