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Cyanogenic Lotus corniculatus occurs as a contaminant of the low grade grass seed used to sow the verges of newly constructed roads in Western Europe. The effect of the new environment on these alien plants is being examined. The influence that the aliens may have on the genetical structure of the native acyanogenic populations of Denmark is being studied.
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Jones, D. On the polymorphism of cyanogenesis in Lotus corniculatus V. Denmark. Heredity 30, 381–386 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1973.46
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