Environmental context of phenotypic plasticity in flowering time in sorghum and rice.

ABSTRACT: Phenotypic plasticity is an important topic in biology and evolution. However, how to generate broadly applicable insights from individual studies remains a challenge. Here, with flowering time observed from a large geographical region for sorghum and rice genetic populations, we examine the consistency of parameter estimation for reaction norms of genotypes across different subsets of environments and searched for potential strategies to inform the study design. Both sample size and environmental mean range of the subset affected the consistency. The subset with either a large range of environmental mean or a large sample size resulted in genetic parameters consistent with the overall pattern. Furthermore, high accuracy through genomic prediction was obtained for reaction norm parameters

SUBMITTER: Guo T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10837014 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature