Multi-Approach Analysis Reveals Local Adaptation in a Widespread Forest Tree of Reunion Island.

ABSTRACT: Detecting processes of local adaptation in forest trees and identifying environmental selective drivers are of primary importance for forest management and conservation. Transplant experiments, functional genomics and population genomics are complementary tools to efficiently characterize heritable phenotypic traits and to decipher the genetic bases of adaptive traits. Using an integrative approach combining phenotypic assessment in common garden, transcriptomics and landscape genomics, we investigated leaf adaptive traits in Coffea mauritiana, a forest tree endemic to Reunion Island. Eight populations of C. mauritiana originating from sites with contrasted environmental conditions were sampled in common garden to assess several leaf morphological traits, to analyze the leaf transcriptome

SUBMITTER: Garot E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8112841 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature