Recent evolution of flowering time across multiple European plant species correlates with changes in aridity.

ABSTRACT: Ongoing global warming and increasing drought frequencies impact plant populations and potentially drive rapid evolutionary adaptations. Historical comparisons, where plants grown from seeds collected in the past are compared to plants grown from freshly collected seeds from populations of the same sites, are a powerful method to investigate recent evolutionary changes across many taxa. We used 21-38 years old seeds of 13 European plant species, stored in seed banks and originating from Mediterranean and temperate regions, together with recently collected seeds from the same sites for a greenhouse experiment to investigate shifts in flowering phenology as a potential result of adaptive evolution to changes in drought intensities over the last decades. We further used single nucleotide poly

SUBMITTER: Rauschkolb R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10386928 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature