Article
Genomic Studies of Local Adaptation in Natural Plant Populations.
The Journal of heredity - 21 Dec 2017
Sork Victoria L
Abstract excerpt
Local adaptation arises as a result of selection by the local environment favoring phenotypes that enhance fitness. Geographic patterns of phenotypic variation are in part due to this selective process. Classically, the genetic basis of those phenotypes has been studied in plant populations using a quantitative genetic approach in which plants from different source populations are grown in common environments, in...
Topics
- Adaptation, Biological
- Arabidopsis
- Climate
- Epigenesis, Genetic
- Gene-Environment Interaction
- Genetic Fitness
- Genetics, Population
- Genomics
- Multifactorial Inheritance
- Phenotype
