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RE: POLYCHROMATIC BOTANY // Variation of foliar colour of Codiaeum variegatum
This is a well-written article on polychromatic Botany. I wonder if this is an emerging area of Botany, I studied this under physiological plant ecology while in school. I have always known that leaf variegation is a form of genetic adaption to light conditions but I've never studied it in relation to a specific plant species such as this.
Keep up the good work!
The variegation of the leaves is mainly mediated by adaptation, but in addition to the genetic influence, the physiological relationship has also been inferred under certain edaphoclimatic conditions. In the botanical laboratory where I work, we have a line of research where we are making morphological contrasts in specimens that grow in tropical environments.
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