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Dorey T, Frachon L, Rieseberg LH, Kreiner JM, Schiestl FP. Biotic interactions promote local adaptation to soil in plants. Nat Commun 2024; 15:5186. [PMID: 38890322 PMCID: PMC11189560 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49383-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2023] [Accepted: 05/30/2024] [Indexed: 06/20/2024] Open
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Although different ecological factors shape adaptative evolution in natural habitats, we know little about how their interactions impact local adaptation. Here we used eight generations of experimental evolution with outcrossing Brassica rapa plants as a model system, in eight treatment groups that varied in soil type, herbivory (with/without aphids), and pollination mode (hand- or bumblebee-pollination), to study how biotic interactions affect local adaptation to soil. First, we show that several plant traits evolved in response to biotic interactions in a soil-specific way. Second, using a reciprocal transplant experiment, we demonstrate that significant local adaptation to soil-type evolved in the "number of open flowers", a trait used as a fitness proxy, but only in plants that evolved with herbivory and bee pollination. Whole genome re-sequencing of experimental lines revealed that biotic interactions caused a 10-fold increase in the number of SNPs across the genome with significant allele frequency change, and that alleles with opposite allele frequency change in different soil types (antagonistic pleiotropy) were most common in plants with an evolutionary history of herbivory and bee pollination. Our results demonstrate that the interaction with mutualists and antagonists can facilitate local adaptation to soil type through antagonistic pleiotropy.
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- Thomas Dorey
- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Agroécologie, INRAE, Institut Agro, Univ. Bourgogne, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France
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- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
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Bastias CC, Estarague A, Vile D, Gaignon E, Lee CR, Exposito-Alonso M, Violle C, Vasseur F. Ecological trade-offs drive phenotypic and genetic differentiation of Arabidopsis thaliana in Europe. Nat Commun 2024; 15:5185. [PMID: 38890286 PMCID: PMC11189578 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49267-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2022] [Accepted: 05/23/2024] [Indexed: 06/20/2024] Open
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Plant diversity is shaped by trade-offs between traits related to competitive ability, propagule dispersal, and stress resistance. However, we still lack a clear understanding of how these trade-offs influence species distribution and population dynamics. In Arabidopsis thaliana, recent genetic analyses revealed a group of cosmopolitan genotypes that successfully recolonized Europe from its center after the last glaciation, excluding older (relict) lineages from the distribution except for their north and south margins. Here, we tested the hypothesis that cosmopolitans expanded due to higher colonization ability, while relicts persisted at the margins due to higher tolerance to competition and/or stress. We compared the phenotypic and genetic differentiation between 71 European genotypes originating from the center, and the south and north margins. We showed that a trade-off between plant fecundity and seed mass shapes the differentiation of A. thaliana in Europe, suggesting that the success of the cosmopolitan groups could be explained by their high dispersal ability. However, at both north and south margins, we found evidence of selection for alleles conferring low dispersal but highly competitive and stress-resistance abilities. This study sheds light on the role of ecological trade-offs as evolutionary drivers of the distribution and dynamics of plant populations.
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- Cristina C Bastias
- CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France.
- Área de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Córdoba, Campus de Rabanales, Córdoba, Spain.
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- CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
- LEPSE, Univ Montpellier, INRAE, Institut Agro Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- LEPSE, Univ Montpellier, INRAE, Institut Agro Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Institute of Plant Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
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Landoni B, Suárez-Montes P, Habeahan RHF, Brennan AC, Pérez-Barrales R. Local climate and vernalization sensitivity predict the latitudinal patterns of flowering onset in the crop wild relative Linum bienne Mill. ANNALS OF BOTANY 2024; 134:117-130. [PMID: 38482916 PMCID: PMC11161566 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcae040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2024] [Accepted: 03/13/2024] [Indexed: 06/09/2024]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS The timing of flowering onset is often correlated with latitude, indicative of climatic gradients. Flowering onset in temperate species commonly requires exposure to cold temperatures, known as vernalization. Hence, population differentiation of flowering onset with latitude might reflect adaptation to the local climatic conditions experienced by populations. METHODS Within its western range, seeds from Linum bienne populations (the wild relative of cultivated Linum usitatissimum) were used to describe the latitudinal differentiation of flowering onset to determine its association with the local climate of the population. A vernalization experiment including different crop cultivars was used to determine how vernalization accelerates flowering onset, in addition to the vernalization sensitivity response among populations and cultivars. Additionally, genetic differentiation of L. bienne populations along the latitudinal range was scrutinized using microsatellite markers. KEY RESULTS Flowering onset varied with latitude of origin, with southern populations flowering earlier than their northern counterparts. Vernalization reduced the number of days to flowering onset, but vernalization sensitivity was greater in northern populations compared with southern ones. Conversely, vernalization delayed flowering onset in the crop, exhibiting less variation in sensitivity. In L. bienne, both flowering onset and vernalization sensitivity were better predicted by the local climate of the population than by latitude itself. Microsatellite data unveiled genetic differentiation of populations, forming two groups geographically partitioned along latitude. CONCLUSIONS The consistent finding of latitudinal variation across experiments suggests that both flowering onset and vernalization sensitivity in L. bienne populations are under genetic regulation and might depend on climatic cues at the place of origin. The association with climatic gradients along latitude suggests that the climate experienced locally drives population differentiation of the flowering onset and vernalization sensitivity patterns. The genetic population structure suggests that past population history could have influenced the flowering initiation patterns detected, which deserves further work.
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- Beatrice Landoni
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK
- Department of Biosciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK
- Botany Department, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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Goulet-Scott BE, Farnitano MC, Brown ALM, Hale CO, Blumstein M, Hopkins R. A multidimensional selective landscape drives adaptive divergence between and within closely related Phlox species. Nat Commun 2024; 15:4661. [PMID: 38821972 PMCID: PMC11143288 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49075-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2023] [Accepted: 05/20/2024] [Indexed: 06/02/2024] Open
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Selection causes local adaptation across populations within species and simultaneously divergence between species. However, it is unclear if either the force of or the response to selection is similar across these scales. We show that natural selection drives divergence between closely related species in a pattern that is distinct from local adaptation within species. We use reciprocal transplant experiments across three species of Phlox wildflowers to characterize widespread adaptive divergence. Using provenance trials, we also find strong local adaptation between populations within a species. Comparing divergence and selection between these two scales of diversity we discover that one suite of traits predicts fitness differences between species and that an independent suite of traits predicts fitness variation within species. Selection drives divergence between species, contributing to speciation, while simultaneously favoring extensive diversity that is maintained across populations within a species. Our work demonstrates how the selection landscape is complex and multidimensional.
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- Benjamin E Goulet-Scott
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
- Harvard Forest, Harvard University, Petersham, MA, 01366, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
- Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA.
- Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Boston, MA, 02131, USA.
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Park S, Shi A, Mou B. Low frequency of the wild-type freezing-tolerance LsCBF7 allele among lettuce population suggests a negative selection during domestication and breeding. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2024; 137:135. [PMID: 38761248 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-024-04643-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2024] [Accepted: 05/03/2024] [Indexed: 05/20/2024]
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KEY MESSAGE Sustainable winter production in lettuce requires freezing tolerant varieties. This study identified a wild-type allele of LsCBF7 that could contribute to freezing tolerance improvement in lettuce. Lettuce is one of the most consumed vegetables globally. While ideally grown in 13-21 °C, its cultivation extends into winter in milder climates. However, occasional freezing temperatures can significantly reduce yields. Therefore, the development of freezing-tolerant lettuce varieties has become a long-term goal of lettuce breeding programs. Despite its significance, our understanding of freezing tolerance in lettuce remains limited. Plants have evolved a coping mechanism against freezing, known as cold acclimation, whereby they can increase freezing tolerance when pre-exposed to low nonfreezing temperatures. The CBF pathway is well-known for its central role in cold acclimation. Previously, we identified 14 CBF genes in lettuce and discovered that one of them, LsCBF7, had a loss-of-function mutation. In this study, we uncovered that accessions from colder regions carried the wild-type allele of LsCBF7 and this allele likely contributed to increased freezing tolerance, with 14% of the lettuce population carrying this allele. Interestingly, in wild lettuce (L. serriola) that is considered a progenitor of cultivated lettuce, this wild-type allele was much more common, with a frequency of 90%. This finding suggests that this wild-type allele may have undergone negative selection during the domestication or breeding of lettuce. Our data strongly indicate that this allele could be linked to early bolting, an undesirable trait in lettuce, which may have driven the negative selection. While this wild-type allele shows promise for improving freezing tolerance in lettuce, it is crucial to decouple it from the early bolting trait to fully harness its potential in lettuce breeding.
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- Sunchung Park
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, MD, 20705, USA.
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- Horticulture Dept, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 72701, USA
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Salinas, CA, 93905, USA
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Minadakis N, Kaderli L, Horvath R, Bourgeois Y, Xu W, Thieme M, Woods DP, Roulin AC. Polygenic architecture of flowering time and its relationship with local environments in the grass Brachypodium distachyon. Genetics 2024; 227:iyae042. [PMID: 38504651 PMCID: PMC11075549 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyae042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2024] [Revised: 01/12/2024] [Accepted: 03/07/2024] [Indexed: 03/21/2024] Open
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Synchronizing the timing of reproduction with the environment is crucial in the wild. Among the multiple mechanisms, annual plants evolved to sense their environment, the requirement of cold-mediated vernalization is a major process that prevents individuals from flowering during winter. In many annual plants including crops, both a long and short vernalization requirement can be observed within species, resulting in so-called early-(spring) and late-(winter) flowering genotypes. Here, using the grass model Brachypodium distachyon, we explored the link between flowering-time-related traits (vernalization requirement and flowering time), environmental variation, and diversity at flowering-time genes by combining measurements under greenhouse and outdoor conditions. These experiments confirmed that B. distachyon natural accessions display large differences regarding vernalization requirements and ultimately flowering time. We underline significant, albeit quantitative effects of current environmental conditions on flowering-time-related traits. While disentangling the confounding effects of population structure on flowering-time-related traits remains challenging, population genomics analyses indicate that well-characterized flowering-time genes may contribute significantly to flowering-time variation and display signs of polygenic selection. Flowering-time genes, however, do not colocalize with genome-wide association peaks obtained with outdoor measurements, suggesting that additional genetic factors contribute to flowering-time variation in the wild. Altogether, our study fosters our understanding of the polygenic architecture of flowering time in a natural grass system and opens new avenues of research to investigate the gene-by-environment interaction at play for this trait.
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- Nikolaos Minadakis
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zürich, Zollikerstr. 107, 8008 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zürich, Zollikerstr. 107, 8008 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zürich, Zollikerstr. 107, 8008 Zürich, Switzerland
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- DIADE, University of Montpellier, CIRAD, IRD, 34 000 Montpellier, France
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zürich, Zollikerstr. 107, 8008 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zürich, Zollikerstr. 107, 8008 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California-Davis, 104 Robbins Hall, Davis, CA 95616, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 4000 Jones Bridge Rd, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zürich, Zollikerstr. 107, 8008 Zürich, Switzerland
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Agha HI, Endelman JB, Chitwood-Brown J, Clough M, Coombs J, De Jong WS, Douches DS, Higgins CR, Holm DG, Novy R, Resende MFR, Sathuvalli V, Thompson AL, Yencho GC, Zotarelli L, Shannon LM. Genotype-by-environment interactions and local adaptation shape selection in the US National Chip Processing Trial. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2024; 137:99. [PMID: 38598016 PMCID: PMC11006776 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-024-04610-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2023] [Accepted: 03/25/2024] [Indexed: 04/11/2024]
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KEY MESSAGE We find evidence of selection for local adaptation and extensive genotype-by-environment interaction in the potato National Chip Processing Trial (NCPT). We present a novel method for dissecting the interplay between selection, local adaptation and environmental response in plant breeding schemes. Balancing local adaptation and the desire for widely adapted cultivars is challenging for plant breeders and makes genotype-by-environment interactions (GxE) an important target of selection. Selecting for GxE requires plant breeders to evaluate plants across multiple environments. One way breeders have accomplished this is to test advanced materials across many locations. Public potato breeders test advanced breeding material in the National Chip Processing Trial (NCPT), a public-private partnership where breeders from ten institutions submit advanced chip lines to be evaluated in up to ten locations across the country. These clones are genotyped and phenotyped for important agronomic traits. We used these data to interrogate the NCPT for GxE. Further, because breeders submitting clones to the NCPT select in a relatively small geographic range for the first 3 years of selection, we examined these data for evidence of incidental selection for local adaptation, and the alleles underlying it, using an environmental genome-wide association study (envGWAS). We found genomic regions associated with continuous environmental variables and discrete breeding programs, as well as regions of the genome potentially underlying GxE for yield.
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- Husain I Agha
- Department of Horticultural Science, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA
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- Department of Plant & Agroecosystem Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Plant Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Plant Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research, USDA-ARS, Aberdeen, ID, USA
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- Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Hermiston Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Oregon State University, Hermiston, OR, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA
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- Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Horticultural Science, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA.
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Lee G, Sanderson BJ, Ellis TJ, Dilkes BP, McKay JK, Ågren J, Oakley CG. A large-effect fitness trade-off across environments is explained by a single mutation affecting cold acclimation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2024; 121:e2317461121. [PMID: 38289961 PMCID: PMC10861903 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2317461121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2023] [Accepted: 12/26/2023] [Indexed: 02/01/2024] Open
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Identifying the genetic basis of local adaptation and fitness trade-offs across environments is a central goal of evolutionary biology. Cold acclimation is an adaptive plastic response for surviving seasonal freezing, and costs of acclimation may be a general mechanism for fitness trade-offs across environments in temperate zone species. Starting with locally adapted ecotypes of Arabidopsis thaliana from Italy and Sweden, we examined the fitness consequences of a naturally occurring functional polymorphism in CBF2. This gene encodes a transcription factor that is a major regulator of cold-acclimated freezing tolerance and resides within a locus responsible for a genetic trade-off for long-term mean fitness. We estimated the consequences of alternate genotypes of CBF2 on 5-y mean fitness and fitness components at the native field sites by comparing near-isogenic lines with alternate genotypes of CBF2 to their genetic background ecotypes. The effects of CBF2 were validated at the nucleotide level using gene-edited lines in the native genetic backgrounds grown in simulated parental environments. The foreign CBF2 genotype in the local genetic background reduced long-term mean fitness in Sweden by more than 10%, primarily via effects on survival. In Italy, fitness was reduced by more than 20%, primarily via effects on fecundity. At both sites, the effects were temporally variable and much stronger in some years. The gene-edited lines confirmed that CBF2 encodes the causal variant underlying this genetic trade-off. Additionally, we demonstrated a substantial fitness cost of cold acclimation, which has broad implications for potential maladaptive responses to climate change.
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- Gwonjin Lee
- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN47907
- Center for Plant Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN47907
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN47907
- Center for Plant Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN47907
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- Plant Ecology and Evolution, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, UppsalaSE-752 36, Sweden
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- Center for Plant Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN47907
- Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN47907
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- Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO80523
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- Plant Ecology and Evolution, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, UppsalaSE-752 36, Sweden
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN47907
- Center for Plant Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN47907
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Schepers JR, Heblack J, Willi Y. Negative interaction effect of heat and drought stress at the warm end of species distribution. Oecologia 2024; 204:173-185. [PMID: 38253704 PMCID: PMC10830594 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-023-05497-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2023] [Accepted: 12/10/2023] [Indexed: 01/24/2024]
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Geographic range limits of species are often a reflection of their ecological niche limits. In many organisms, important niche limits that coincide with distribution limits are warm and warm-dry conditions. We investigated the effects of heat and drought, as they can occur at the warm end of distribution. In a greenhouse experiment, we raised North American Arabidopsis lyrata from the centre of its distribution as well as from low- and high-latitude limits under average and extreme conditions. We assessed plant growth and development, as well as leaf and root functional traits, and tested for a decline in performance and selection acting on growth, leaf, and root traits. Drought and heat, when applied alone, lowered plant performance, while combined stress caused synergistically negative effects. Plants from high latitudes did not survive under combined stress, whereas plants originating from central and low latitudes had low to moderate survival, indicating divergent adaptation. Traits positively associated with survival under drought, with or without heat, were delayed and slowed growth, though plastic responses in these traits were generally antagonistic to the direction of selection. In line, higher tolerance of stress in southern populations did not involve aspects of growth but rather a higher root-to-shoot ratio and thinner leaves. In conclusion, combined heat and drought, as can occur at southern range edges and presumably more so under global change, seriously impede the long-term persistence of A. lyrata, even though they impose selection and populations may adapt, though under likely interference by considerable maladaptive plasticity.
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- Judith R Schepers
- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, 4056, Basel, Switzerland.
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, 4056, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, 4056, Basel, Switzerland
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Jordan R, Harrison PA, Breed M. The eco-evolutionary risks of not changing seed provenancing practices in changing environments. Ecol Lett 2024; 27:e14348. [PMID: 38288869 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2023] [Revised: 11/10/2023] [Accepted: 11/12/2023] [Indexed: 02/01/2024]
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Sourcing seed from local populations has been the long-standing default for native restoration plantings for numerous eco-evolutionary reasons. However, rapidly changing environments are revealing risks associated with both non-local and local provenancing. As alternative strategies gain interest, we argue to progress seed sourcing discussions towards developing risk-based decision-making that weighs the risks of changing and not changing in a changing environment, transcending historic default positions and local versus non-local debates.
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- Australian Research Council Centre for Forest Value & School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia
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Kishino H, Nakamichi R, Kitada S. Genetic adaptations in the population history of Arabidopsis thaliana. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2023; 13:jkad218. [PMID: 37748020 PMCID: PMC10700115 DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkad218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2023] [Revised: 05/26/2023] [Accepted: 09/14/2023] [Indexed: 09/27/2023]
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A population encounters a variety of environmental stresses, so the full source of its resilience can only be captured by collecting all the signatures of adaptation to the selection of the local environment in its population history. Based on the multiomic data of Arabidopsis thaliana, we constructed a database of phenotypic adaptations (p-adaptations) and gene expression (e-adaptations) adaptations in the population. Through the enrichment analysis of the identified adaptations, we inferred a likely scenario of adaptation that is consistent with the biological evidence from experimental work. We analyzed the dynamics of the allele frequencies at the 23,880 QTLs of 174 traits and 8,618 eQTLs of 1,829 genes with respect to the total SNPs in the genomes and identified 650 p-adaptations and 3,925 e-adaptations [false discovery rate (FDR) = 0.05]. The population underwent large-scale p-adaptations and e-adaptations along 4 lineages. Extremely cold winters and short summers prolonged seed dormancy and expanded the root system architecture. Low temperatures prolonged the growing season, and low light intensity required the increased chloroplast activity. The subtropical and humid environment enhanced phytohormone signaling pathways in response to the biotic and abiotic stresses. Exposure to heavy metals selected alleles for lower heavy metal uptake from soil, lower growth rate, lower resistance to bacteria, and higher expression of photosynthetic genes were selected. The p-adaptations are directly interpretable, while the coadapted gene expressions reflect the physiological requirements for the adaptation. The integration of this information characterizes when and where the population has experienced environmental stress and how the population responded at the molecular level.
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- Hirohisa Kishino
- Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
- Research and Development Initiative, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan
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- Fisheries Resources Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, 2-12-4 Fukuura, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 236-8648, Japan
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- Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, 4-5-7 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8477, Japan
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Kinmonth-Schultz H, Sønstebø JH, Croneberger AJ, Johnsen SS, Leder E, Lewandowska-Sabat A, Imaizumi T, Rognli OA, Vinje H, Ward JK, Fjellheim S. Responsiveness to long days for flowering is reduced in Arabidopsis by yearly variation in growing season temperatures. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2023; 46:3337-3352. [PMID: 37249162 DOI: 10.1111/pce.14632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2022] [Revised: 05/08/2023] [Accepted: 05/15/2023] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Conservative flowering behaviours, such as flowering during long days in summer or late flowering at a high leaf number, are often proposed to protect against variable winter and spring temperatures which lead to frost damage if premature flowering occurs. Yet, due the many factors in natural environments relative to the number of individuals compared, assessing which climate characteristics drive these flowering traits has been difficult. We applied a multidisciplinary approach to 10 winter-annual Arabidopsis thaliana populations from a wide climactic gradient in Norway. We used a variable reduction strategy to assess which of 100 climate descriptors from their home sites correlated most to their flowering behaviours when tested for responsiveness to photoperiod after saturation of vernalization; then, assessed sequence variation of 19 known environmental-response flowering genes. Photoperiod responsiveness inversely correlated with interannual variation in timing of growing season onset. Time to flowering appeared driven by growing season length, curtailed by cold fall temperatures. The distribution of FLM, TFL2 and HOS1 haplotypes, genes involved in ambient temperature response, correlated with growing-season climate. We show that long-day responsiveness and late flowering may be driven not by risk of spring frosts, but by growing season temperature and length, perhaps to opportunistically maximize growth.
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- Hannah Kinmonth-Schultz
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
- Department of Biology, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee, USA
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- Faculty of Technology, Natural Sciences and Maritime Sciences, University of South-Eastern Norway, Notodden, Norway
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- Faculty of Biosciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas, Norway
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- Department of Marine Science, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Faculty of Biosciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas, Norway
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas, Norway
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- College of Arts and Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Faculty of Biosciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas, Norway
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Dittmar EL, Schemske DW. Temporal Variation in Selection Influences Microgeographic Local Adaptation. Am Nat 2023; 202:471-485. [PMID: 37792918 DOI: 10.1086/725865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/06/2023]
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AbstractEcological heterogeneity can lead to local adaptation when populations exhibit fitness trade-offs among habitats. However, the degree to which local adaptation is affected by the spatial and temporal scale of environmental variation is poorly understood. A multiyear reciprocal transplant experiment was performed with populations of the annual plant Leptosiphon parviflorus living on adjacent serpentine and nonserpentine soil. Local adaptation over this small geographic scale was observed, but there were differences in the temporal variability of selection across habitats. On serpentine soil, the local population had a consistently large survival advantage, presumably as a result of the temporal stability in selection imposed by soil cation content. In contrast, a fecundity advantage was observed for the sandstone population on its native soil type but only in the two study years with the highest rainfall. A manipulative greenhouse experiment demonstrated that the fitness advantage of the sandstone population in its native soil type depends critically on water availability. The temporal variability in local adaptation driven by variation in precipitation suggests that continued drought conditions have the potential to erode local adaptation in these populations. These results show how different selective factors can influence spatial and temporal patterns of variation in fitness trade-offs.
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Li DQ, Jiang L, Liang H, Zhu DH, Fan DM, Kou YX, Yang Y, Zhang ZY. Resolving a nearly 90-year-old enigma: The rare Fagus chienii is conspecific with F. hayatae based on molecular and morphological evidence. PLANT DIVERSITY 2023; 45:544-551. [PMID: 37936819 PMCID: PMC10625896 DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2023.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2022] [Revised: 01/05/2023] [Accepted: 01/06/2023] [Indexed: 11/09/2023]
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Taxonomic uncertainties of rare species often hinder effective prioritization for conservation. One such taxonomic uncertainty is the 90-year-old enigma of Fagus chienii. F. chienii was previously only known from the type specimens collected in 1935 in Pingwu County of Sichuan Province, China, and has long been thought to be on the verge of extinction. However, morphological similarities to closely related Fagus species have led many to question the taxonomic status of F. chienii. To clarify this taxonomic uncertainty, we used the newly collected samples to reconstruct a molecular phylogeny of Chinese Fagus species against the phylogenetic backbone of the whole genus using seven nuclear genes. In addition, we examined nine morphological characters to determine whether F. chienii is morphologically distinct from its putatively closest relatives (F. hayatae, F.longipetiolata, and F.lucida). Both morphological and phylogenetic analyses indicated that F. chienii is conspecific with F. hayatae. We recommended that F. chienii should not be treated as a separate species in conservation management. However, conservation strategies such as in situ protection and ex situ germplasm preservation should be adopted to prevent the peculiar "F. chienii" population from extinction.
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- Dan-Qi Li
- College of Forestry, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China
- Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China
- Lushan Botanical Garden, Jiangxi Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiujiang 332900, China
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- College of Forestry, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China
- Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China
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- College of Forestry, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China
- Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China
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- Longxi-Hongkou National Reserve, Chengdu 611830, China
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- Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China
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- Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China
- Key Laboratory of Ecology of Rare and Endangered Species and Environmental Protection (Guangxi Normal University), Ministry of Education, Guilin 541004, China
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Landscape Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization in Lijiang River Basin, Guilin 541006, China
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- Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China
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- College of Forestry, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China
- Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China
- Key Laboratory of Ecology of Rare and Endangered Species and Environmental Protection (Guangxi Normal University), Ministry of Education, Guilin 541004, China
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Landscape Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization in Lijiang River Basin, Guilin 541006, China
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Neto C, Hancock A. Genetic Architecture of Flowering Time Differs Between Populations With Contrasting Demographic and Selective Histories. Mol Biol Evol 2023; 40:msad185. [PMID: 37603463 PMCID: PMC10461413 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msad185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2023] [Revised: 08/09/2023] [Accepted: 08/10/2023] [Indexed: 08/23/2023] Open
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Understanding the evolutionary factors that impact the genetic architecture of traits is a central goal of evolutionary genetics. Here, we investigate how quantitative trait variation accumulated over time in populations that colonized a novel environment. We compare the genetic architecture of flowering time in Arabidopsis populations from the drought-prone Cape Verde Islands and their closest outgroup population from North Africa. We find that trait polygenicity is severely reduced in the island populations compared to the continental North African population. Further, trait architectures and reconstructed allelic histories best fit a model of strong directional selection in the islands in accord with a Fisher-Orr adaptive walk. Consistent with this, we find that large-effect variants that disrupt major flowering time genes (FRI and FLC) arose first, followed by smaller effect variants, including ATX2 L125F, which is associated with a 4-day reduction in flowering time. The most recently arising flowering time-associated loci are not known to be directly involved in flowering time, consistent with an omnigenic signature developing as the population approaches its trait optimum. Surprisingly, we find no effect in the natural population of EDI-Cvi-0 (CRY2 V367M), an allele for which an effect was previously validated by introgression into a Eurasian line. Instead, our results suggest the previously observed effect of the EDI-Cvi-0 allele on flowering time likely depends on genetic background, due to an epistatic interaction. Altogether, our results provide an empirical example of the effects demographic history and selection has on trait architecture.
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- Célia Neto
- Molecular Basis of Adaptation Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
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- Molecular Basis of Adaptation Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
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Oakley CG, Schemske DW, McKay JK, Ågren J. Ecological genetics of local adaptation in Arabidopsis: An 8-year field experiment. Mol Ecol 2023; 32:4570-4583. [PMID: 37317048 DOI: 10.1111/mec.17045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2023] [Revised: 05/16/2023] [Accepted: 05/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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There is considerable evidence for local adaptation in nature, yet important questions remain regarding its genetic basis. How many loci are involved? What are their effect sizes? What is the relative importance of conditional neutrality versus genetic trade-offs? Here we address these questions in the self-pollinating, annual plant Arabidopsis thaliana. We used 400 recombinant inbred lines (RILs) derived from two locally adapted populations in Italy and Sweden, grew the RILs and parents at the parental locations, and mapped quantitative trait loci (QTL) for mean fitness (fruits/seedling planted). We previously published results from the first 3 years of the study, and here add five additional years, providing a unique opportunity to assess how temporal variation in selection might affect QTL detection and classification. We found 10 adaptive and one maladaptive QTL in Italy, and six adaptive and four maladaptive QTL in Sweden. The discovery of maladaptive QTL at both sites suggests that even locally adapted populations are not always at their genotypic optimum. Mean effect sizes for adaptive QTL, 0.97 and 0.55 fruits in Italy and Sweden, respectively, were large relative to the mean fitness of the RILs (approximately 8 fruits/seedling planted at both sites). Both genetic trade-offs (four cases) and conditional neutrality (seven cases) contribute to local adaptation in this system. The 8-year dataset provided greater power to detect QTL and to estimate their locations compared to our previous 3-year study, identifying one new genetic trade-off and resolving one genetic trade-off into two conditionally adaptive QTL.
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- Christopher G Oakley
- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, and the Center for Plant Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology and W. K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
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- College of Agricultural Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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- Plant Ecology and Evolution, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Deng Z, Zhao J, Ma P, Zhang H, Li R, Wang Z, Tang Y, Luo T. Precipitation and local adaptation drive spatiotemporal variations of aboveground biomass and species richness in Tibetan alpine grasslands. Oecologia 2023:10.1007/s00442-023-05401-1. [PMID: 37314486 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-023-05401-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2022] [Accepted: 06/05/2023] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The Tibetan Plateau contains the highest and largest alpine pasture in the world, which is adapted to the cold and arid climate. It is challenging to understand how the vast alpine grasslands respond to climate change. We aim to test the hypothesis that there is local adaptation in elevational populations of major plant species in Tibetan alpine grasslands, and that the spatiotemporal variations of aboveground biomass (AGB) and species richness (S) can be mainly explained by climate change only when the effect of local adaptation is removed. A 7-year reciprocal transplant experiment was conducted among the distribution center (4950 m), upper (5200 m) and lower (4650 m) limits of alpine Kobresia meadow in central Tibetan Plateau. We observed interannual variations in S and AGB of 5 functional groups and 4 major species, and meteorological factors in each of the three elevations during 2012-2018. Relationships between interannual changes of AGB and climatic factors varied greatly with elevational populations within a species. Elevation of population origin generally had a greater or an equal contribution to interannual variation in AGB of the 4 major species, compared to temperature and precipitation effects. While the effect of local adaptation was removed by calculating differences in AGB and S between elevations of migration and origin, relative changes in AGB and S were mainly explained by precipitation change rather than by temperature change. Our data support the hypothesis, and further provide evidence that the monsoon-adapted alpine grasslands are more sensitive to precipitation change than to warming.
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- Zhaoheng Deng
- Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Building 3, Courtyard 16, Lin Cui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Building 3, Courtyard 16, Lin Cui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Building 3, Courtyard 16, Lin Cui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China
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- College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Building 3, Courtyard 16, Lin Cui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, China.
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Adams WW, Stewart JJ, Polutchko SK, Cohu CM, Muller O, Demmig-Adams B. Foliar Phenotypic Plasticity Reflects Adaptation to Environmental Variability. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 12:2041. [PMID: 37653958 PMCID: PMC10224448 DOI: 10.3390/plants12102041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2023] [Revised: 05/10/2023] [Accepted: 05/18/2023] [Indexed: 09/02/2023]
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Arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes adapted to native habitats with different daylengths, temperatures, and precipitation were grown experimentally under seven combinations of light intensity and leaf temperature to assess their acclimatory phenotypic plasticity in foliar structure and function. There were no differences among ecotypes when plants developed under moderate conditions of 400 µmol photons m-2 s-1 and 25 °C. However, in response to more extreme light or temperature regimes, ecotypes that evolved in habitats with pronounced differences in either the magnitude of changes in daylength or temperature or in precipitation level exhibited pronounced adjustments in photosynthesis and transpiration, as well as anatomical traits supporting these functions. Specifically, when grown under extremes of light intensity (100 versus 1000 µmol photons m-2 s-1) or temperature (8 °C versus 35 °C), ecotypes from sites with the greatest range of daylengths and temperature over the growing season exhibited the greatest differences in functional and structural features related to photosynthesis (light- and CO2-saturated capacity of oxygen evolution, leaf dry mass per area or thickness, phloem cells per minor vein, and water-use efficiency of CO2 uptake). On the other hand, the ecotype from the habitat with the lowest precipitation showed the greatest plasticity in features related to water transport and loss (vein density, ratio of water to sugar conduits in foliar minor veins, and transpiration rate). Despite these differences, common structure-function relationships existed across all ecotypes and growth conditions, with significant positive, linear correlations (i) between photosynthetic capacity (ranging from 10 to 110 µmol O2 m-2 s-1) and leaf dry mass per area (from 10 to 75 g m-2), leaf thickness (from 170 to 500 µm), and carbohydrate-export infrastructure (from 6 to 14 sieve elements per minor vein, from 2.5 to 8 µm2 cross-sectional area per sieve element, and from 16 to 82 µm2 cross-sectional area of sieve elements per minor vein); (ii) between transpiration rate (from 1 to 17 mmol H2O m-2 s-1) and water-transport infrastructure (from 3.5 to 8 tracheary elements per minor vein, from 13.5 to 28 µm2 cross-sectional area per tracheary element, and from 55 to 200 µm2 cross-sectional area of tracheary elements per minor vein); (iii) between the ratio of transpirational water loss to CO2 fixation (from 0.2 to 0.7 mol H2O to mmol-1 CO2) and the ratio of water to sugar conduits in minor veins (from 0.4 to 1.1 tracheary to sieve elements, from 4 to 6 µm2 cross-sectional area of tracheary to sieve elements, and from 2 to 6 µm2 cross-sectional area of tracheary elements to sieve elements per minor vein); (iv) between sugar conduits and sugar-loading cells; and (v) between water conducting and sugar conducting cells. Additionally, the proportion of water conduits to sugar conduits was greater for all ecotypes grown experimentally under warm-to-hot versus cold temperature. Thus, developmental acclimation to the growth environment included ecotype-dependent foliar structural and functional adjustments resulting in multiple common structural and functional relationships.
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- William W. Adams
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0334, USA; (J.J.S.); (S.K.P.); (B.D.-A.)
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0334, USA; (J.J.S.); (S.K.P.); (B.D.-A.)
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0334, USA; (J.J.S.); (S.K.P.); (B.D.-A.)
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- Environmental Science and Technology, Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, CO 81502, USA;
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- Pflanzenwissenschaften (IBG-2), Institut für Bio- und Geowissenschaften, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52428 Jülich, Germany;
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0334, USA; (J.J.S.); (S.K.P.); (B.D.-A.)
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Revolinski SR, Maughan PJ, Coleman CE, Burke IC. Preadapted to adapt: underpinnings of adaptive plasticity revealed by the downy brome genome. Commun Biol 2023; 6:326. [PMID: 36973344 PMCID: PMC10042881 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-04620-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2022] [Accepted: 02/21/2023] [Indexed: 03/29/2023] Open
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Bromus tectorum L. is arguably the most successful invasive weed in the world. It has fundamentally altered arid ecosystems of the western United States, where it now found on an excess of 20 million hectares. Invasion success is related to avoidance of abiotic stress and human management. Early flowering is a heritable trait utilized by B. tectorum, enabling the species to temporally monopolize limited resources and outcompete the native plant community. Thus, understanding the genetic underpinning of flowering time is critical for the design of integrated management strategies. To study flowering time traits in B. tectorum, we assembled a chromosome scale reference genome for B. tectorum. To assess the utility of the assembled genome, 121 diverse B. tectorum accessions are phenotyped and subjected to a genome wide association study (GWAS). Candidate genes, representing homologs of genes that have been previously associated with plant height or flowering phenology traits in related species are located near QTLs we identified. This study uses a high-resolution GWAS to identify reproductive phenology genes in a weedy species and represents a considerable step forward in understanding the mechanisms underlying genetic plasticity in one of the most successful invasive weed species.
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- Samuel R Revolinski
- Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
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- Department of Plant & Wildlife Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA
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- Department of Plant & Wildlife Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA
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- Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA.
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Tataru D, Wheeler EC, Ferris KG. Spatially and temporally varying selection influence species boundaries in two sympatric Mimulus. Proc Biol Sci 2023; 290:20222279. [PMID: 36750191 PMCID: PMC9904950 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.2279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023] Open
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Spatially and temporally varying selection can maintain genetic variation within and between populations, but it is less well known how these forces influence divergence between closely related species. We identify the interaction of temporal and spatial variation in selection and their role in either reinforcing or eroding divergence between two closely related Mimulus species. Using repeated reciprocal transplant experiments with advanced generation hybrids, we compare the strength of selection on quantitative traits involved in adaptation and reproductive isolation in Mimulus guttatus and Mimulus laciniatus between two years with dramatically different water availability. We found strong divergent habitat-mediated selection on traits in the direction of species differences during a drought in 2013, suggesting that spatially varying selection maintains species divergence. However, a relaxation in divergent selection on most traits in an unusually wet year (2019), including flowering time, which is involved in pre-zygotic isolation, suggests that temporal variation in selection may weaken species differences. Therefore, we find evidence that temporally and spatially varying selection may have opposing roles in mediating species boundaries. Given our changing climate, future growing seasons are expected to be more similar to the dry year, suggesting that in this system climate change may actually increase species divergence.
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- Diana Tataru
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, 6823 St Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, 6823 St Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, 6823 St Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
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Lasky JR, Josephs EB, Morris GP. Genotype-environment associations to reveal the molecular basis of environmental adaptation. THE PLANT CELL 2023; 35:125-138. [PMID: 36005926 PMCID: PMC9806588 DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koac267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2022] [Accepted: 08/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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A fundamental goal in plant biology is to identify and understand the variation underlying plants' adaptation to their environment. Climate change has given new urgency to this goal, as society aims to accelerate adaptation of ecologically important plant species, endangered plant species, and crops to hotter, less predictable climates. In the pre-genomic era, identifying adaptive alleles was painstaking work, leveraging genetics, molecular biology, physiology, and ecology. Now, the rise of genomics and new computational approaches may facilitate this research. Genotype-environment associations (GEAs) use statistical associations between allele frequency and environment of origin to test the hypothesis that allelic variation at a given gene is adapted to local environments. Researchers may scan the genome for GEAs to generate hypotheses on adaptive genetic variants (environmental genome-wide association studies). Despite the rapid adoption of these methods, many important questions remain about the interpretation of GEA findings, which arise from fundamental unanswered questions on the genetic architecture of adaptation and limitations inherent to association-based analyses. We outline strategies to ground GEAs in the underlying hypotheses of genetic architecture and better test GEA-generated hypotheses using genetics and ecophysiology. We provide recommendations for new users who seek to learn about the molecular basis of adaptation. When combined with a rigorous hypothesis testing framework, GEAs may facilitate our understanding of the molecular basis of climate adaptation for plant improvement.
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- Jesse R Lasky
- Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology; Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Department of Soil and Crop Sciences; Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80526, USA
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Feng T, Wu P, Gao H, Kosma DK, Jenks MA, Lü S. Natural variation in root suberization is associated with local environment in Arabidopsis thaliana. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2022; 236:385-398. [PMID: 35751382 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2022] [Accepted: 06/16/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Genetic signature of climate adaptation has been widely recognized across the genome of many organisms; however, the eco-physiological basis for linking genomic polymorphisms with local adaptations remains largely unexplored. Using a panel of 218 world-wide Arabidopsis accessions, we characterized the natural variation in root suberization by quantifying 16 suberin monomers. We explored the associations between suberization traits and 126 climate variables. We conducted genome-wide association analysis and integrated previous genotype-environment association (GEA) to identify the genetic bases underlying suberization variation and their involvements in climate adaptation. Root suberin content displays extensive variation across Arabidopsis populations and significantly correlates with local moisture gradients and soil characteristics. Specifically, enhanced suberization is associated with drier environments, higher soil cation-exchange capacity, and lower soil pH; higher proportional levels of very-long-chain suberin is negatively correlated with moisture availability, lower soil gravel content, and higher soil silt fraction. We identified 94 putative causal loci and experimentally proved that GPAT6 is involved in C16 suberin biosynthesis. Highly significant associations between the putative genes and environmental variables were observed. Roots appear highly responsive to environmental heterogeneity via regulation of suberization, especially the suberin composition. The patterns of suberization-environment correlation and the suberin-related GEA fit the expectations of local adaptation for the polygenic suberization trait.
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- Tao Feng
- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, 430062, China
- Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, 430062, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, 430062, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, 89557, USA
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- School of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, 430062, China
- Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan, 430070, China
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Durán P, Ellis TJ, Thiergart T, Ågren J, Hacquard S. Climate drives rhizosphere microbiome variation and divergent selection between geographically distant Arabidopsis populations. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2022; 236:608-621. [PMID: 35794837 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2022] [Accepted: 06/29/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Disentangling the contribution of climatic and edaphic factors to microbiome variation and local adaptation in plants requires an experimental approach to uncouple their effects and test for causality. We used microbial inocula, soil matrices and plant genotypes derived from two natural Arabidopsis thaliana populations in northern and southern Europe in an experiment conducted in climatic chambers mimicking seasonal changes in temperature, day length and light intensity of the home sites of the two genotypes. The southern A. thaliana genotype outperformed the northern genotype in the southern climate chamber, whereas the opposite was true in the northern climate chamber. Recipient soil matrix, but not microbial composition, affected plant fitness, and effects did not differ between genotypes. Differences between chambers significantly affected rhizosphere microbiome assembly, although these effects were small in comparison with the shifts induced by physicochemical differences between soil matrices. The results suggest that differences in seasonal changes in temperature, day length and light intensity between northern and southern Europe have strongly influenced adaptive differentiation between the two A. thaliana populations, whereas effects of differences in soil factors have been weak. By contrast, below-ground differences in soil characteristics were more important than differences in climate for rhizosphere microbiome differentiation.
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- Paloma Durán
- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, 50829, Cologne, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, 50829, Cologne, Germany
- LIPME, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Castanet-Tolosan, 31326, France
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, SE-752 36, Uppsala, Sweden
- Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Doktor-Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030, Vienna, Austria
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- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, 50829, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, SE-752 36, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, 50829, Cologne, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, 50829, Cologne, Germany
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Clauw P, Kerdaffrec E, Gunis J, Reichardt-Gomez I, Nizhynska V, Koemeda S, Jez J, Nordborg M. Locally adaptive temperature response of vegetative growth in Arabidopsis thaliana. eLife 2022; 11:77913. [PMID: 35904422 PMCID: PMC9337855 DOI: 10.7554/elife.77913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2022] [Accepted: 07/13/2022] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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We investigated early vegetative growth of natural Arabidopsis thaliana accessions in cold, nonfreezing temperatures, similar to temperatures these plants naturally encounter in fall at northern latitudes. We found that accessions from northern latitudes produced larger seedlings than accessions from southern latitudes, partly as a result of larger seed size. However, their subsequent vegetative growth when exposed to colder temperatures was slower. The difference was too large to be explained by random population differentiation, and is thus suggestive of local adaptation, a notion that is further supported by substantial transcriptome and metabolome changes in northern accessions. We hypothesize that the reduced growth of northern accessions is an adaptive response and a consequence of reallocating resources toward cold acclimation and winter survival.
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- Pieter Clauw
- Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna BioCenter, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna BioCenter, Vienna, Austria
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- Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna BioCenter, Vienna, Austria
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- Plant Sciences Facility, Vienna BioCenter Core Facilities GmbH, Vienna, Austria
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- Plant Sciences Facility, Vienna BioCenter Core Facilities GmbH, Vienna, Austria
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- Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna BioCenter, Vienna, Austria
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Postma FM, Ågren J. Effects of primary seed dormancy on lifetime fitness of Arabidopsis thaliana in the field. ANNALS OF BOTANY 2022; 129:795-808. [PMID: 35092679 PMCID: PMC9292592 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcac010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2021] [Accepted: 01/26/2022] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Seed dormancy determines the environmental niche of plants in seasonal environments, and has consequences for plant performance that potentially go far beyond the seed and seedling stages. In this study, we examined the cascading effects of seed dormancy on the expression of subsequent life-history traits and fitness in the annual herb Arabidopsis thaliana. METHODS We planted seeds of >200 recombinant inbred lines (RILs) derived from a cross between two locally adapted populations (Italy and Sweden), and both parental genotypes at the native site of the Swedish population in three consecutive years. We quantified the relationship between primary seed dormancy and the expression of subsequent life-history traits and fitness in the RIL population with path analysis. To examine the effects of differences in dormancy on the relative fitness of the two parental genotypes, we planted dormant seeds during the seed dispersal period and non-dormant seeds during the germination period of the local population. KEY RESULTS In the RIL population, strong primary dormancy was associated with high seedling survival, but with low adult survival and fecundity, and path analysis indicated that this could be explained by effects on germination timing, rosette size and flowering start. The relationship between primary seed dormancy and germination proportion varied among years, and this was associated with differences in seasonal changes in soil moisture. The planting of dormant and non-dormant seeds indicated that the lower primary dormancy of the local Swedish genotype contributed to its higher germination proportion in two years and to its higher fecundity in one year. CONCLUSIONS Our results show that seed dormancy affects trait expression and fitness components across the life cycle, and suggest that among-year variation in the incidence of drought during the germination period should be considered when predicting the consequences of climatic change for population growth and evolution.
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- Froukje M Postma
- Plant Ecology and Evolution, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18 D, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
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Cornille A, Tiret M, Salcedo A, Huang HR, Orsucci M, Milesi P, Kryvokhyzha D, Holm K, Ge XJ, Stinchcombe JR, Glémin S, Wright SI, Lascoux M. The relative role of plasticity and demographic history in Capsella bursa-pastoris: a common garden experiment in Asia and Europe. AOB PLANTS 2022; 14:plac011. [PMID: 35669442 PMCID: PMC9162126 DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plac011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2021] [Accepted: 03/28/2022] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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The colonization success of a species depends on the interplay between its phenotypic plasticity, adaptive potential and demographic history. Assessing their relative contributions during the different phases of a species range expansion is challenging, and requires large-scale experiments. Here, we investigated the relative contributions of plasticity, performance and demographic history to the worldwide expansion of the shepherd's purse, Capsella bursa-pastoris. We installed two large common gardens of the shepherd's purse, a young, self-fertilizing, allopolyploid weed with a worldwide distribution. One common garden was located in Europe, the other in Asia. We used accessions from three distinct genetic clusters (Middle East, Europe and Asia) that reflect the demographic history of the species. Several life-history traits were measured. To explain the phenotypic variation between and within genetic clusters, we analysed the effects of (i) the genetic clusters, (ii) the phenotypic plasticity and its association to fitness and (iii) the distance in terms of bioclimatic variables between the sampling site of an accession and the common garden, i.e. the environmental distance. Our experiment showed that (i) the performance of C. bursa-pastoris is closely related to its high phenotypic plasticity; (ii) within a common garden, genetic cluster was a main determinant of phenotypic differences; and (iii) at the scale of the experiment, the effect of environmental distance to the common garden could not be distinguished from that of genetic clusters. Phenotypic plasticity and demographic history both play important role at different stages of range expansion. The success of the worldwide expansion of C. bursa-pastoris was undoubtedly influenced by its strong phenotypic plasticity.
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- Department of Plant Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden
- Science for Life Laboratory, 752 37 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China
- Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, M5S 3B2 Toronto, ON, Canada
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De-la-Cruz IM, Batsleer F, Bonte D, Diller C, Hytönen T, Muola A, Osorio S, Posé D, Vandegehuchte ML, Stenberg JA. Evolutionary Ecology of Plant-Arthropod Interactions in Light of the "Omics" Sciences: A Broad Guide. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:808427. [PMID: 35548276 PMCID: PMC9084618 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.808427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2021] [Accepted: 04/01/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Aboveground plant-arthropod interactions are typically complex, involving herbivores, predators, pollinators, and various other guilds that can strongly affect plant fitness, directly or indirectly, and individually, synergistically, or antagonistically. However, little is known about how ongoing natural selection by these interacting guilds shapes the evolution of plants, i.e., how they affect the differential survival and reproduction of genotypes due to differences in phenotypes in an environment. Recent technological advances, including next-generation sequencing, metabolomics, and gene-editing technologies along with traditional experimental approaches (e.g., quantitative genetics experiments), have enabled far more comprehensive exploration of the genes and traits involved in complex ecological interactions. Connecting different levels of biological organization (genes to communities) will enhance the understanding of evolutionary interactions in complex communities, but this requires a multidisciplinary approach. Here, we review traditional and modern methods and concepts, then highlight future avenues for studying the evolution of plant-arthropod interactions (e.g., plant-herbivore-pollinator interactions). Besides promoting a fundamental understanding of plant-associated arthropod communities' genetic background and evolution, such knowledge can also help address many current global environmental challenges.
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- Ivan M. De-la-Cruz
- Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
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- Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, Viikki Plant Science Centre, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- NIAB EMR, West Malling, United Kingdom
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- Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
- Biodiversity Unit, University of Turku, Finland
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular y Bioquímica, Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea “La Mayora”, Universidad de Málaga-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Campus de Teatinos, Málaga, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular y Bioquímica, Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea “La Mayora”, Universidad de Málaga-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Campus de Teatinos, Málaga, Spain
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- Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
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Ferrero-Serrano Á, Sylvia MM, Forstmeier PC, Olson AJ, Ware D, Bevilacqua PC, Assmann SM. Experimental demonstration and pan-structurome prediction of climate-associated riboSNitches in Arabidopsis. Genome Biol 2022; 23:101. [PMID: 35440059 PMCID: PMC9017077 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-022-02656-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2021] [Accepted: 03/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Background Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) aim to correlate phenotypic changes with genotypic variation. Upon transcription, single nucleotide variants (SNVs) may alter mRNA structure, with potential impacts on transcript stability, macromolecular interactions, and translation. However, plant genomes have not been assessed for the presence of these structure-altering polymorphisms or “riboSNitches.” Results We experimentally demonstrate the presence of riboSNitches in transcripts of two Arabidopsis genes, ZINC RIBBON 3 (ZR3) and COTTON GOLGI-RELATED 3 (CGR3), which are associated with continentality and temperature variation in the natural environment. These riboSNitches are also associated with differences in the abundance of their respective transcripts, implying a role in regulating the gene's expression in adaptation to local climate conditions. We then computationally predict riboSNitches transcriptome-wide in mRNAs of 879 naturally inbred Arabidopsis accessions. We characterize correlations between SNPs/riboSNitches in these accessions and 434 climate descriptors of their local environments, suggesting a role of these variants in local adaptation. We integrate this information in CLIMtools V2.0 and provide a new web resource, T-CLIM, that reveals associations between transcript abundance variation and local environmental variation. Conclusion We functionally validate two plant riboSNitches and, for the first time, demonstrate riboSNitch conditionality dependent on temperature, coining the term “conditional riboSNitch.” We provide the first pan-genome-wide prediction of riboSNitches in plants. We expand our previous CLIMtools web resource with riboSNitch information and with 1868 additional Arabidopsis genomes and 269 additional climate conditions, which will greatly facilitate in silico studies of natural genetic variation, its phenotypic consequences, and its role in local adaptation. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13059-022-02656-4.
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- Ángel Ferrero-Serrano
- Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, PA, 16802, USA.
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- Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, PA, 16802, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, PA, 16802, USA
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724, USA
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724, USA.,USDA ARS NAA Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, PA, 16802, USA.,Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, PA, 16802, USA.,Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, PA, 16802, USA
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- Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, PA, 16802, USA. .,Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, PA, 16802, USA.
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Fournier-Level A, Taylor MA, Paril JF, Martínez-Berdeja A, Stitzer MC, Cooper MD, Roe JL, Wilczek AM, Schmitt J. Adaptive significance of flowering time variation across natural seasonal environments in Arabidopsis thaliana. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2022; 234:719-734. [PMID: 35090191 DOI: 10.1111/nph.17999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2021] [Accepted: 01/04/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The relevance of flowering time variation and plasticity to climate adaptation requires a comprehensive empirical assessment. We investigated natural selection and the genetic architecture of flowering time in Arabidopsis through field experiments in Europe across multiple sites and seasons. We estimated selection for flowering time, plasticity and canalization. Loci associated with flowering time, plasticity and canalization by genome-wide association studies were tested for a geographic signature of climate adaptation. Selection favored early flowering and increased canalization, except at the northernmost site, but was rarely detected for plasticity. Genome-wide association studies revealed significant associations with flowering traits and supported a substantial polygenic inheritance. Alleles associated with late flowering, including functional FRIGIDA variants, were more common in regions experiencing high annual temperature variation. Flowering time plasticity to fall vs spring and summer environments was associated with GIGANTEA SUPPRESSOR 5, which promotes early flowering under decreasing day length and temperature. The finding that late flowering genotypes and alleles are associated with climate is evidence for past adaptation. Real-time phenotypic selection analysis, however, reveals pervasive contemporary selection for rapid flowering in agricultural settings across most of the species range. The response to this selection may involve genetic shifts in environmental cuing compared to the ancestral state.
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- Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic., 3010, Australia
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- Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, USA
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- College of Arts and Sciences, Biology, Agricultural Science & Agribusiness, University of Maine at Presque Isle, Presque Isle, ME, 04769, USA
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- Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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Zacchello G, Bomers S, Böhme C, Postma FM, Ågren J. Seed dormancy varies widely among
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populations both between and within Fennoscandia and Italy. Ecol Evol 2022; 12:e8670. [PMID: 35261752 PMCID: PMC8888264 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2021] [Revised: 09/27/2021] [Accepted: 11/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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The timing of germination is a key life‐history trait in plants, which is strongly affected by the strength of seed dormancy. Continental‐wide genetic variation in seed dormancy has been related to differences in climate and the timing of conditions suitable for seedling establishment. However, for predictions of adaptive potential and consequences of climatic change, information is needed regarding the extent to which seed dormancy varies within climatic regions and the factors driving such variation. We quantified dormancy of seeds produced by 17 Italian and 28 Fennoscandian populations of Arabidopsis thaliana when grown in the greenhouse and at two field sites in Italy and Sweden. To identify possible drivers of among‐population variation in seed dormancy, we examined the relationship between seed dormancy and climate at the site of population origin, and between seed dormancy and flowering time. Seed dormancy was on average stronger in the Italian compared to the Fennoscandian populations, but also varied widely within both regions. Estimates of seed dormancy in the three maternal environments were positively correlated. Among Fennoscandian populations, seed dormancy tended to increase with increasing summer temperature and decreasing precipitation at the site of population origin. In the smaller sample of Italian populations, no significant association was detected between mean seed dormancy and climate at the site of origin. The correlation between population mean seed dormancy and flowering time was weak and not statistically significant within regions. The correlation between seed dormancy and climatic factors in Fennoscandia suggests that at least some of the among‐population variation is adaptive and that climate change will affect selection on this trait. The weak correlation between population mean seed dormancy and flowering time indicates that the two traits can evolve independently.
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- Giulia Zacchello
- Plant Ecology and Evolution Department of Ecology and Genetics EBC Uppsala University Uppsala Sweden
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- Plant Ecology and Evolution Department of Ecology and Genetics EBC Uppsala University Uppsala Sweden
- Institute for Seed and Propagating Material, Phytosanitary Service and Apiculture Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety Vienna Austria
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- Plant Ecology and Evolution Department of Ecology and Genetics EBC Uppsala University Uppsala Sweden
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- Plant Ecology and Evolution Department of Ecology and Genetics EBC Uppsala University Uppsala Sweden
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- Plant Ecology and Evolution Department of Ecology and Genetics EBC Uppsala University Uppsala Sweden
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Sammarco I, Münzbergová Z, Latzel V. DNA Methylation Can Mediate Local Adaptation and Response to Climate Change in the Clonal Plant Fragaria vesca: Evidence From a European-Scale Reciprocal Transplant Experiment. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:827166. [PMID: 35295625 PMCID: PMC8919072 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.827166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2021] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The ongoing climate crisis represents a growing threat for plants and other organisms. However, how and if plants will be able to adapt to future environmental conditions is still debated. One of the most powerful mechanisms allowing plants to tackle the changing climate is phenotypic plasticity, which can be regulated by epigenetic mechanisms. Environmentally induced epigenetic variation mediating phenotypic plasticity might be heritable across (a)sexual generations, thus potentially enabling rapid adaptation to climate change. Here, we assessed whether epigenetic mechanisms, DNA methylation in particular, enable for local adaptation and response to increased and/or decreased temperature of natural populations of a clonal plant, Fragaria vesca (wild strawberry). We collected ramets from three populations along a temperature gradient in each of three countries covering the southern (Italy), central (Czechia), and northern (Norway) edges of the native European range of F. vesca. After clonal propagation and alteration of DNA methylation status of half of the plants via 5-azacytidine, we reciprocally transplanted clones to their home locality and to the other two climatically distinct localities within the country of their origin. At the end of the growing season, we recorded survival and aboveground biomass as fitness estimates. We found evidence for local adaptation in intermediate and cold populations in Italy and maladaptation of plants of the warmest populations in all countries. Plants treated with 5-azacytidine showed either better or worse performance in their local conditions than untreated plants. Application of 5-azacytidine also affected plant response to changed climatic conditions when transplanted to the colder or warmer locality than was their origin, and the response was, however, country-specific. We conclude that the increasing temperature will probably be the limiting factor determining F. vesca survival and distribution. DNA methylation may contribute to local adaptation and response to climatic change in natural ecosystems; however, its role may depend on the specific environmental conditions. Since adaptation mediated by epigenetic variation may occur faster than via natural selection on genetic variants, epigenetic adaptation might to some degree help plants in keeping up with the ongoing environmental crisis.
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- Iris Sammarco
- Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czechia
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
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- Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czechia
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
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- Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czechia
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Distinct Cold Acclimation of Productivity Traits in Arabidopsis thaliana Ecotypes. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23042129. [PMID: 35216246 PMCID: PMC8879503 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23042129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2022] [Revised: 02/10/2022] [Accepted: 02/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/10/2022] Open
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Improvement of crop climate resilience will require an understanding of whole-plant adaptation to specific local environments. This review places features of plant form and function related to photosynthetic productivity, as well as associated gene-expression patterns, into the context of the adaptation of Arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes to local environments with different climates in Sweden and Italy. The growth of plants under common cool conditions resulted in a proportionally greater emphasis on the maintenance of photosynthetic activity in the Swedish ecotype. This is compared to a greater emphasis on downregulation of light-harvesting antenna size and upregulation of a host of antioxidant enzymes in the Italian ecotype under these conditions. This differential response is discussed in the context of the climatic patterns of the ecotypes’ native habitats with substantial opportunity for photosynthetic productivity under mild temperatures in Italy but not in Sweden. The Swedish ecotype’s response is likened to pushing forward at full speed with productivity under low temperature versus the Italian ecotype’s response of staying safe from harm (maintaining redox homeostasis) while letting productivity decline when temperatures are transiently cold. It is concluded that either strategy can offer directions for the development of climate-resilient crops for specific locations of cultivation.
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Crombie TA, Battlay P, Tanny RE, Evans KS, Buchanan CM, Cook DE, Dilks CM, Stinson LA, Zdraljevic S, Zhang G, Roberto NM, Lee D, Ailion M, Hodgins KA, Andersen EC. Local adaptation and spatiotemporal patterns of genetic diversity revealed by repeated sampling of Caenorhabditis elegans across the Hawaiian Islands. Mol Ecol 2022; 31:2327-2347. [PMID: 35167162 PMCID: PMC9306471 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2021] [Revised: 01/23/2022] [Accepted: 02/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is among the most widely studied organisms, but relatively little is known about its natural ecology. Genetic diversity is low across much of the globe but high in the Hawaiian Islands and across the Pacific Rim. To characterize the niche and genetic diversity of C. elegans on the Hawaiian Islands and to explore how genetic diversity might be influenced by local adaptation, we repeatedly sampled nematodes over a three‐year period, measured various environmental parameters at each sampling site, and whole‐genome sequenced the C. elegans isolates that we identified. We found that the typical Hawaiian C. elegans niche comprises moderately moist native forests at high elevations (500–1,500 m) where ambient air temperatures are cool (15–20°C). Compared to other Caenorhabditis species found on the Hawaiian Islands (e.g., Caenorhabditis briggsae and Caenorhabditis tropicalis), we found that C. elegans were enriched in native habitats. We measured levels of genetic diversity and differentiation among Hawaiian C. elegans and found evidence of seven genetically distinct groups distributed across the islands. Then, we scanned these genomes for signatures of local adaptation and identified 18 distinct regions that overlap with hyper‐divergent regions, which may be maintained by balancing selection and are enriched for genes related to environmental sensing, xenobiotic detoxification, and pathogen resistance. These results provide strong evidence of local adaptation among Hawaiian C. elegans and contribute to our understanding of the forces that shape genetic diversity on the most remote volcanic archipelago in the world.
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- Timothy A Crombie
- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.,Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.,Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.,Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.,Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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Baker CR, Stewart JJ, Amstutz CL, Ching LG, Johnson JD, Niyogi KK, Adams WW, Demmig‐Adams B. Genotype-dependent contribution of CBF transcription factors to long-term acclimation to high light and cool temperature. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2022; 45:392-411. [PMID: 34799867 PMCID: PMC9299779 DOI: 10.1111/pce.14231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2020] [Revised: 11/01/2021] [Accepted: 11/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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When grown under cool temperature, winter annuals upregulate photosynthetic capacity as well as freezing tolerance. Here, the role of three cold-induced C-repeat-binding factor (CBF1-3) transcription factors in photosynthetic upregulation and freezing tolerance was examined in two Arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes originating from Italy (IT) or Sweden (SW), and their corresponding CBF1-3-deficient mutant lines it:cbf123 and sw:cbf123. Photosynthetic, morphological and freezing-tolerance phenotypes, as well as gene expression profiles, were characterized in plants grown from the seedling stage under different combinations of light level and temperature. Under high light and cool (HLC) growth temperature, a greater role of CBF1-3 in IT versus SW was evident from both phenotypic and transcriptomic data, especially with respect to photosynthetic upregulation and freezing tolerance of whole plants. Overall, features of SW were consistent with a different approach to HLC acclimation than seen in IT, and an ability of SW to reach the new homeostasis through the involvement of transcriptional controls other than CBF1-3. These results provide tools and direction for further mechanistic analysis of the transcriptional control of approaches to cold acclimation suitable for either persistence through brief cold spells or for maximisation of productivity in environments with continuous low temperatures.
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- Christopher R. Baker
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Howard Hughes Medical InstituteUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of ColoradoBoulderColoradoUSA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Howard Hughes Medical InstituteUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Howard Hughes Medical InstituteUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Howard Hughes Medical InstituteUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Howard Hughes Medical InstituteUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCaliforniaUSA
- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging DivisionLawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryBerkeleyCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of ColoradoBoulderColoradoUSA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of ColoradoBoulderColoradoUSA
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Boinot M, Karakas E, Koehl K, Pagter M, Zuther E. Cold stress and freezing tolerance negatively affect the fitness of Arabidopsis thaliana accessions under field and controlled conditions. PLANTA 2022; 255:39. [PMID: 35032192 PMCID: PMC8761124 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-021-03809-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2021] [Accepted: 12/08/2021] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Higher acclimated freezing tolerance improved winter survival, but reduced reproductive fitness of Arabidopsis thaliana accessions under field and controlled conditions. Low temperature is one of the most important abiotic factors influencing plant fitness and geographical distribution. In addition, cold stress is known to influence crop yield and is therefore of great economic importance. Increased freezing tolerance can be acquired by the process of cold acclimation, but this may be associated with a fitness cost. To assess the influence of cold stress on the fitness of plants, long-term field trials over 5 years were performed with six natural accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana ranging from very tolerant to very sensitive to freezing. Fitness parameters, as seed yield and 1000 seed mass, were measured and correlation analyses with temperature and freezing tolerance data performed. The results were compared with fitness parameters from controlled chamber experiments over 3 years with application of cold priming and triggering conditions. Winter survival and seed yield per plant were positively correlated with temperature in field experiments. In addition, winter survival and 1000 seed mass were correlated with the cold-acclimated freezing tolerance of the selected Arabidopsis accessions. The results provide strong evidence for a trade-off between higher freezing tolerance and reproductive fitness in A. thaliana, which might have ecological impacts in the context of global warming.
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- Maximilian Boinot
- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Muehlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Muehlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Muehlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Muehlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany
- Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, 9220, Aalborg East, Denmark
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Muehlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany.
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Fontes CG, Pinto‐Ledezma J, Jacobsen AL, Pratt RB, Cavender‐Bares J. Adaptive variation among oaks in wood anatomical properties is shaped by climate of origin and shows limited plasticity across environments. Funct Ecol 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Clarissa G. Fontes
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior University of Minnesota Saint Paul MN USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior University of Minnesota Saint Paul MN USA
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Ramírez-Valiente JA, Solé-Medina A, Pyhäjärvi T, Savolainen O, Heer K, Opgenoorth L, Danusevicius D, Robledo-Arnuncio JJ. Adaptive responses to temperature and precipitation variation at the early-life stages of Pinus sylvestris. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2021; 232:1632-1647. [PMID: 34388269 DOI: 10.1111/nph.17678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2021] [Accepted: 08/07/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Early-stage fitness variation has been seldom evaluated at broad scales in forest tree species, despite the long tradition of studying climate-driven intraspecific genetic variation. In this study, we evaluated the role of climate in driving patterns of population differentiation at early-life stages in Pinus sylvestris and explored the fitness and growth consequences of seed transfer within the species range. We monitored seedling emergence, survival and growth over a 2-yr period in a multi-site common garden experiment which included 18 European populations and spanned 25° in latitude and 1700 m in elevation. Climate-fitness functions showed that populations exhibited higher seedling survival and growth at temperatures similar to their home environment, which is consistent with local adaptation. Northern populations experienced lower survival and growth at warmer sites, contrary to previous studies on later life stages. Seed mass was higher in populations from warmer areas and was positively associated with survival and growth at more southern sites. Finally, we did not detect a survival-growth trade-off; on the contrary, bigger seedlings exhibited higher survival probabilities under most climatic conditions. In conclusion, our results reveal that contrasting temperature regimes have played an important role in driving the divergent evolution of P. sylvestris populations at early-life stages.
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- José Alberto Ramírez-Valiente
- Department of Forest Ecology & Genetics, Forest Research Centre (INIA, CSIC), Ctra. de la Coruña km 7.5, Madrid, 28040, Spain
- Ecological and Forestry Applications Research Centre, CREAF, Campus de Bellaterra (UAB) Edifici C 08193, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Forest Ecology & Genetics, Forest Research Centre (INIA, CSIC), Ctra. de la Coruña km 7.5, Madrid, 28040, Spain
- Escuela Internacional de Doctorado, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, C/Tulipán s/n, Móstoles, 28933, Spain
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, FI-90014, Finland
- Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FI-00014, Finland
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- Conservation Biology, Philipps Universität Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch Strasse 8, Marburg, 35043, Germany
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- Plant Ecology and Geobotany, Philipps Universität Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch Strasse 8, Marburg, 35043, Germany
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- Plant Ecology and Geobotany, Philipps Universität Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch Strasse 8, Marburg, 35043, Germany
- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, Birmensdorf, 8903, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Forest Science and Evology, Vytautas Magnus University, Studentu str. 11, Akademija, Kaunas, LT-53361, Lithuania
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- Department of Forest Ecology & Genetics, Forest Research Centre (INIA, CSIC), Ctra. de la Coruña km 7.5, Madrid, 28040, Spain
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Alvarez M, Bleich A, Donohue K. Genetic differences in the temporal and environmental stability of transgenerational environmental effects. Evolution 2021; 75:2773-2790. [PMID: 34586633 DOI: 10.1111/evo.14367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2020] [Revised: 05/31/2021] [Accepted: 06/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Environments influence the expression of phenotypes of individuals, their progeny, and even their grandprogeny. The duration of environmental effects and how they are modified by subsequent environments are predicted to be targets of natural selection in variable environments. However, little is known about the genetic basis of the temporal persistence of environmental effects and their stability of expression across subsequent environments, or even the extent to which natural genotypes differ in these attributes of environmental effects. We factorially manipulated the thermal environment experienced in three successive generations, to quantify the temporal persistence and environmental stability of temperature effects in contrasting genotypes of Arabidopsis thaliana. We found that genotypes differed in the manner in which environmental effects dissipated across successive generations, the manner in which responses to ancestral environments were stably expressed in present environments, the manner in which ancestral environments altered responses to present environments, and in the manner in which ancestral environments altered fitness in present conditions. Genetic variation exists in nature for these trait-specific environmental responses, suggesting that the temporal persistence and stability of environmental effects in variable environments have the potential to evolve in response to natural selection imposed by different environments and sequences of environments.
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- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 27708
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- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 27708
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Wright SJ, Goad DM, Gross BL, Muñoz PR, Olsen KM. Genetic trade-offs underlie divergent life history strategies for local adaptation in white clover. Mol Ecol 2021; 31:3742-3760. [PMID: 34532899 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2021] [Revised: 08/25/2021] [Accepted: 09/02/2021] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Local adaptation is common in plants, yet characterization of its underlying genetic basis is rare in herbaceous perennials. Moreover, while many plant species exhibit intraspecific chemical defence polymorphisms, their importance for local adaptation remains poorly understood. We examined the genetic architecture of local adaptation in a perennial, obligately-outcrossing herbaceous legume, white clover (Trifolium repens). This widespread species displays a well-studied chemical defence polymorphism for cyanogenesis (HCN release following tissue damage) and has evolved climate-associated cyanogenesis clines throughout its range. Two biparental F2 mapping populations, derived from three parents collected in environments spanning the U.S. latitudinal species range (Duluth, MN, St. Louis, MO and Gainesville, FL), were grown in triplicate for two years in reciprocal common garden experiments in the parental environments (6,012 total plants). Vegetative growth and reproductive fitness traits displayed trade-offs across reciprocal environments, indicating local adaptation. Genetic mapping of fitness traits revealed a genetic architecture characterized by allelic trade-offs between environments, with 100% and 80% of fitness QTL in the two mapping populations showing significant QTL×E interactions, consistent with antagonistic pleiotropy. Across the genome there were three hotspots of QTL colocalization. Unexpectedly, we found little evidence that the cyanogenesis polymorphism contributes to local adaptation. Instead, divergent life history strategies in reciprocal environments were major fitness determinants: selection favoured early investment in flowering at the cost of multiyear survival in the southernmost site versus delayed flowering and multiyear persistence in the northern environments. Our findings demonstrate that multilocus genetic trade-offs contribute to contrasting life history characteristics that allow for local adaptation in this outcrossing herbaceous perennial.
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- Sara J Wright
- Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Biology Department, University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota, USA
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- Horticultural Science Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Zhao Y, Zhong Y, Ye C, Liang P, Pan X, Zhang YY, Zhang Y, Shen Y. Multi-omics analyses on Kandelia obovata reveal its response to transplanting and genetic differentiation among populations. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2021; 21:341. [PMID: 34281510 PMCID: PMC8287808 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-021-03123-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2021] [Accepted: 07/07/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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BACKGROUND Restoration through planting is the dominant strategy to conserve mangrove ecosystems. However, many of the plantations fail to survive. Site and seeding selection matters for planting. The process of afforestation, where individuals were planted in a novel environment, is essentially human-controlled transplanting events. Trying to deepen and expand the understanding of the effects of transplanting on plants, we have performed a seven-year-long reciprocal transplant experiment on Kandelia obovata along a latitudinal gradient. RESULTS Combined phenotypic analyses and next-generation sequencing, we found phenotypic discrepancies among individuals from different populations in the common garden and genetic differentiation among populations. The central population with abundant genetic diversity and high phenotypic plasticity had a wide plantable range. But its biomass was reduced after being transferred to other latitudes. The suppressed expression of lignin biosynthesis genes revealed by RNA-seq was responsible for the biomass reduction. Moreover, using whole-genome bisulfite sequencing, we observed modification of DNA methylation in MADS-box genes that involved in the regulation of flowering time, which might contribute to the adaptation to new environments. CONCLUSIONS Taking advantage of classical ecological experiments as well as multi-omics analyses, our work observed morphology differences and genetic differentiation among different populations of K. obovata, offering scientific advice for the development of restoration strategy with long-term efficacy, also explored phenotypic, transcript, and epigenetic responses of plants to transplanting events between latitudes.
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- Yuze Zhao
- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of E, ducation for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, Fujian, China
- Key Laboratory of Tropical Translational Medicine of Ministry of Education, School of Tropical Medicine and Laboratory Medicine, Hainan Medical University, Haikou, 571199, China
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- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of E, ducation for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, Fujian, China
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- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of E, ducation for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, Fujian, China
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- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of E, ducation for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, Fujian, China
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- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of E, ducation for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, Fujian, China
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- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of E, ducation for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, Fujian, China
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- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of E, ducation for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, Fujian, China.
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- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of E, ducation for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, Fujian, China.
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Fernie AR, Alseekh S, Liu J, Yan J. Using precision phenotyping to inform de novo domestication. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2021; 186:1397-1411. [PMID: 33848336 PMCID: PMC8260140 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiab160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 03/22/2021] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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An update on the use of precision phenotyping to assess the potential of lesser cultivated species as candidates for de novo domestication or similar development for future agriculture.
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- Alisdair R Fernie
- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
- Centre of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology, 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
- Author for communication: (A.R.F.)
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
- Centre of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology, 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, 430070 Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, 430070 Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Ensing DJ, Sora DMDH, Eckert CG. Chronic selection for early reproductive phenology in an annual plant across a steep, elevational gradient of growing season length. Evolution 2021; 75:1681-1698. [PMID: 34048598 DOI: 10.1111/evo.14274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2020] [Revised: 04/08/2021] [Accepted: 04/20/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Colonization along ubiquitous gradients of growing season length should require adaptation of phenological traits, driven by natural selection. Although phenology often varies with season length and genetic differentiation in phenological traits sometimes seems adaptive, few studies test whether natural selection is responsible for these patterns. The annual plant Rhinanthus minor is genetically differentiated for phenology across a 1000-m elevational gradient of growing season length in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. We estimated phenotypic selection on five phenological traits for three generations of naturally occurring individuals at 12 sites (n = 10,112), and two generations of genetically and phenotypically more variable transplanted populations at nine of these sites (n = 24,611). Selection was weak for most traits, but consistently favored early flowering across the gradient rather than only under short seasons. There was no evidence that apparent selection favoring early reproduction arose from failure to consider all components of fitness, or variation in other correlated phenological traits. Instead, selection for earlier flowering may be balanced by selection for strong cogradient phenological plasticity that indirectly favors later flowering. However, this probably does not explain the consistency of selection on flowering time across this steep, elevational gradient of growing season length.
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- David J Ensing
- Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada
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Reciprocal Garden Study Reveals Acute Spatial-Edaphic Adaptation for Cycas micronesica. DIVERSITY 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/d13060237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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A long-term reciprocal garden study was used to determine adaptive variation between Cycas micronesica K.D. Hill plants from north versus south Guam. Half-siblings from each location were planted as one-leaf seedlings in north and south gardens and monitored for 15 years. Stem height and diameter, and leaf number and maximum length were measured yearly. Survival and plant size traits were evaluated using a two-way factorial. In both locations, the local genotypes out-performed the foreign genotypes in terms of survival and growth. Survival of the foreign genotypes began to decline by year 4 and was less than 10% by year 15. Survival of the local genotypes was 70% for the north garden and 100% for the south garden. The north site was more hostile to plant performance because overall survival and plant growth were less than for the south site. The most likely environmental factor provoking local adaptation was highly contrasting soil characteristics between north and south Guam. The results indicates that long-term conservation success for C. micronesica and other cycad species must include the concept of local adaptation into decisions for transplantation and restoration projects.
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Ellis TJ, Postma FM, Oakley CG, Ågren J. Life-history trade-offs and the genetic basis of fitness in Arabidopsis thaliana. Mol Ecol 2021; 30:2846-2858. [PMID: 33938082 DOI: 10.1111/mec.15941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2019] [Revised: 03/29/2021] [Accepted: 04/16/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Resources allocated to survival cannot be used to increase fecundity, but the extent to which this trade-off constrains adaptation depends on overall resource status. Adaptation to local environmental conditions may therefore entail the evolution of traits that increase the amount of resources available to individuals (their resource status or 'condition'). We examined the relative contribution of trade-offs and increased condition to adaptive evolution in a recombinant inbred line population of Arabidopsis thaliana planted at the native sites of the parental ecotypes in Italy and Sweden in 2 years. We estimated genetic correlations among fitness components based on genotypic means and explored their causes with QTL mapping. The local ecotype produced more seeds per fruit than did the non-local ecotype, reflected in stronger adaptive differentiation than was previously shown based on survival and fruit number only. Genetic correlations between survival and overall fecundity, and between number of fruits and number of seeds per fruit, were positive, and there was little evidence of a trade-off between seed size and number. Quantitative trait loci for these traits tended to map to the same regions of the genome and showed positive pleiotropic effects. The results indicate that adaptive differentiation between the two focal populations largely reflects the evolution of increased ability to acquire resources in the local environment, rather than shifts in the relative allocation to different life-history traits. Differentiation both in phenology and in tolerance to cold is likely to contribute to the advantage of the local genotype at the two sites.
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- Thomas James Ellis
- Plant Ecology and Evolution, Department of Ecology and Genetics, EBC, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.,Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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- Plant Ecology and Evolution, Department of Ecology and Genetics, EBC, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology & the Center for Plant Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Plant Ecology and Evolution, Department of Ecology and Genetics, EBC, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Adaptive differentiation and rapid evolution of a soil bacterium along a climate gradient. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:2101254118. [PMID: 33906949 PMCID: PMC8106337 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2101254118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Increasing evidence suggests that evolutionary processes frequently shape ecological patterns; however, most microbiome studies thus far have focused on only the ecological responses of these communities. By using parallel field experiments and focusing in on a model soil bacterium, we showed that bacterial “species” are differentially adapted to local climates, leading to changes in their composition. Furthermore, we detected strain-level evolution, providing direct evidence that both ecological and evolutionary processes operate on annual timescales. The consideration of eco-evolutionary dynamics may therefore be important to understand the response of soil microbiomes to future environmental change. Microbial community responses to environmental change are largely associated with ecological processes; however, the potential for microbes to rapidly evolve and adapt remains relatively unexplored in natural environments. To assess how ecological and evolutionary processes simultaneously alter the genetic diversity of a microbiome, we conducted two concurrent experiments in the leaf litter layer of soil over 18 mo across a climate gradient in Southern California. In the first experiment, we reciprocally transplanted microbial communities from five sites to test whether ecological shifts in ecotypes of the abundant bacterium, Curtobacterium, corresponded to past adaptive differentiation. In the transplanted communities, ecotypes converged toward that of the native communities growing on a common litter substrate. Moreover, these shifts were correlated with community-weighted mean trait values of the Curtobacterium ecotypes, indicating that some of the trait variation among ecotypes could be explained by local adaptation to climate conditions. In the second experiment, we transplanted an isogenic Curtobacterium strain and tracked genomic mutations associated with the sites across the same climate gradient. Using a combination of genomic and metagenomic approaches, we identified a variety of nonrandom, parallel mutations associated with transplantation, including mutations in genes related to nutrient acquisition, stress response, and exopolysaccharide production. Together, the field experiments demonstrate how both demographic shifts of previously adapted ecotypes and contemporary evolution can alter the diversity of a soil microbiome on the same timescale.
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Teixeira JC, Huber CD. The inflated significance of neutral genetic diversity in conservation genetics. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:e2015096118. [PMID: 33608481 PMCID: PMC7958437 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2015096118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 47.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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The current rate of species extinction is rapidly approaching unprecedented highs, and life on Earth presently faces a sixth mass extinction event driven by anthropogenic activity, climate change, and ecological collapse. The field of conservation genetics aims at preserving species by using their levels of genetic diversity, usually measured as neutral genome-wide diversity, as a barometer for evaluating population health and extinction risk. A fundamental assumption is that higher levels of genetic diversity lead to an increase in fitness and long-term survival of a species. Here, we argue against the perceived importance of neutral genetic diversity for the conservation of wild populations and species. We demonstrate that no simple general relationship exists between neutral genetic diversity and the risk of species extinction. Instead, a better understanding of the properties of functional genetic diversity, demographic history, and ecological relationships is necessary for developing and implementing effective conservation genetic strategies.
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- João C Teixeira
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 5005 SA, Australia;
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 5005 SA, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 5005 SA, Australia;
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DeMarche ML, Bailes G, Hendricks LB, Pfeifer‐Meister L, Reed PB, Bridgham SD, Johnson BR, Shriver R, Waddle E, Wroton H, Doak DF, Roy BA, Morris WF. Latitudinal gradients in population growth do not reflect demographic responses to climate. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS : A PUBLICATION OF THE ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2021; 31:e2242. [PMID: 33098736 PMCID: PMC7988552 DOI: 10.1002/eap.2242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2020] [Revised: 07/03/2020] [Accepted: 07/07/2020] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Spatial gradients in population growth, such as across latitudinal or elevational gradients, are often assumed to primarily be driven by variation in climate, and are frequently used to infer species' responses to climate change. Here, we use a novel demographic, mixed-model approach to dissect the contributions of climate variables vs. other latitudinal or local site effects on spatiotemporal variation in population performance in three perennial bunchgrasses. For all three species, we find that performance of local populations decreases with warmer and drier conditions, despite latitudinal trends of decreasing population growth toward the cooler and wetter northern portion of each species' range. Thus, latitudinal gradients in performance are not predictive of either local or species-wide responses to climate. This pattern could be common, as many environmental drivers, such as habitat quality or species' interactions, are likely to vary with latitude or elevation, and thus influence or oppose climate responses.
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- Institute of Ecology and EvolutionUniversity of OregonEugeneOregon97403USA
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- Institute of Ecology and EvolutionUniversity of OregonEugeneOregon97403USA
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- Institute of Ecology and EvolutionUniversity of OregonEugeneOregon97403USA
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- Department of Landscape ArchitectureUniversity of OregonEugeneOregon97403USA
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- Department of Natural Resources and Environmental ScienceUniversity of NevadaRenoNevada89557USA
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- Environmental Studies ProgramUniversity of Colorado BoulderBoulderColorado80309USA
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- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology DepartmentUniversity of Colorado BoulderColorado80309USA
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- Environmental Studies ProgramUniversity of Colorado BoulderBoulderColorado80309USA
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- Institute of Ecology and EvolutionUniversity of OregonEugeneOregon97403USA
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Anstett DN, Branch HA, Angert AL. Regional differences in rapid evolution during severe drought. Evol Lett 2021; 5:130-142. [PMID: 33868709 PMCID: PMC8045920 DOI: 10.1002/evl3.218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2020] [Revised: 11/06/2020] [Accepted: 01/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Climate change is increasing drought intensity, threatening biodiversity. Rapid evolution of drought adaptations might be required for population persistence, particularly in rear-edge populations that may already be closer to physiological limits. Resurrection studies are a useful tool to assess adaptation to climate change, yet these studies rarely encompass the geographic range of a species. Here, we sampled 11 populations of scarlet monkeyflower (Mimulus cardinalis), collecting seeds across the plants' northern, central, and southern range to track trait evolution from the lowest to the greatest moisture anomaly over a 7-year period. We grew families generated from these populations across well-watered and terminal drought treatments in a greenhouse and quantified five traits associated with dehydration escape and avoidance. When considering pre-drought to peak-drought phenotypes, we find that later date of flowering evolved across the range of M. cardinalis, suggesting a shift away from dehydration escape. Instead, traits consistent with dehydration avoidance evolved, with smaller and/or thicker leaves evolving in central and southern regions. The southern region also saw a loss of plasticity in these leaf traits by the peak of the drought, whereas flowering time remained plastic across all regions. This observed shift in traits from escape to avoidance occurred only in certain regions, revealing the importance of geographic context when examining adaptations to climate change.
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- Daniel N Anstett
- Biodiversity Research Centre and Department of Botany University of British Columbia Vancouver British Columbia V6T 1Z4 Canada
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- Biodiversity Research Centre and Department of Botany University of British Columbia Vancouver British Columbia V6T 1Z4 Canada
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- Biodiversity Research Centre and Department of Botany University of British Columbia Vancouver British Columbia V6T 1Z4 Canada.,Department of Zoology University of British Columbia Vancouver British Columbia V6T 1Z4 Canada
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Weng ML, Ågren J, Imbert E, Nottebrock H, Rutter MT, Fenster CB. Fitness effects of mutation in natural populations of Arabidopsis thaliana reveal a complex influence of local adaptation. Evolution 2020; 75:330-348. [PMID: 33340094 DOI: 10.1111/evo.14152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2020] [Revised: 08/21/2020] [Accepted: 09/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Little is empirically known about the contribution of mutations to fitness in natural environments. However, Fisher's Geometric Model (FGM) provides a conceptual foundation to consider the influence of the environment on mutational effects. To quantify mutational properties in the field, we established eight sets of MA lines (7-10 generations) derived from eight founders collected from natural populations of Arabidopsis thaliana from French and Swedish sites, representing the range margins of the species in Europe. We reciprocally planted the MA lines and their founders at French and Swedish sites, allowing us to test predictions of FGM under naturally occurring environmental conditions. The performance of the MA lines relative to each other and to their respective founders confirmed some and contradicted other predictions of the FGM: the contribution of mutation to fitness variance increased when the genotype was in an environment where its fitness was low, that is, in the away environment, but mutations were more likely to be beneficial when the genotype was in its home environment. Consequently, environmental context plays a large role in the contribution of mutations to the evolutionary process and local adaptation does not guarantee that a genotype is at or close to its optimum.
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- Mao-Lun Weng
- Department of Biology and Microbiology, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA.,Current address: Department of Biology, Westfield State University, Westfield, Massachusettes, USA
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- Plant Ecology and Evolution, Department of Ecology and Genetics, EBC, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Institut des Sciences de la Évolution, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Biology and Microbiology, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA.,Current address: Plant Ecology, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth, Universitätsstrasse 30, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Department of Biology, College of Charleston, South Carolina, USA
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- Department of Biology and Microbiology, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA.,Oak Lake Field Station, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA
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