One hundred years into the study of ecotypes, new advances are being made through large-scale field experiments in perennial plant systems

VanWallendael, Acer; Lowry, David B.; Hamilton, Jill A.

doi:10.1016/j.pbi.2021.102152

Title: One hundred years into the study of ecotypes, new advances are being made through large-scale field experiments in perennial plant systems

Journal Article · 19 January 2022 · Current Opinion in Plant Biology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2021.102152 · OSTI ID:1845993

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Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), East Lansing, MI (United States); Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States); Michigan State University Department of Plant Biology
Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), East Lansing, MI (United States); Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)

A hundred years after Turesson first clearly described how locally adaptive variation is distributed within species, plant biologists are making major breakthroughs in our understanding of mechanisms underlying adaptation from local populations to the scale of continents. Although the genetics of local adaptation has typically been studied in smaller reciprocal transplant experiments, here it is being evaluated with whole genomes in large-scale networks of common garden experiments with perennial switchgrass and poplar trees. These studies support the hypothesis that a complex combination of loci, both with and without adaptive trade-offs, underlies local adaptation and that hybridization and adaptive introgression play a key role in the evolution of these species. Future studies incorporating high-throughput phenotyping, gene expression, and modeling will be used to predict responses of these species to climate change.

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Research Organization:: Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), Madison, WI (United States); Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0017883; SC0018409

OSTI ID:: 1845993

Journal Information:: Current Opinion in Plant Biology, Journal Name: Current Opinion in Plant Biology Vol. 66; ISSN 1369-5266

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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