Article
Comparative studies of evolutionary responses to light environments in Arabidopsis.
The American naturalist - 1 Jan 2003
Pigliucci Massimo, Pollard Heidi, Cruzan Mitchell B
Abstract excerpt
In this article, we compare the reaction norms to foliage shade (changes in light quality, spatially fine-grained environmental variation) and photoperiod (day length, spatially coarse-grained environmental variation) in several haplotypes of Arabidopsis thaliana from Scandinavia. We found that both across-environment means and phenotypic plasticities evolved continuously and very rapidly within this group. Both...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Arabidopsis
- Biological Evolution
- DNA, Chloroplast
- Environment
- Haplotypes
- Light
- Phenotype
- Photoperiod
- Phylogeny
- Scandinavian and Nordic Countries