Climate-driven divergence in plant-microbiome interactions generates range-wide variation in bud break phenology.

ABSTRACT: Soil microbiomes are rapidly becoming known as an important driver of plant phenotypic variation and may mediate plant responses to environmental factors. However, integrating spatial scales relevant to climate change with plant intraspecific genetic variation and soil microbial ecology is difficult, making studies of broad inference rare. Here we hypothesize and show: 1) the degree to which tree genotypes condition their soil microbiomes varies by population across the geographic distribution of a widespread riparian tree, Populus angustifolia; 2) geographic dissimilarity in soil microbiomes among populations is influenced by both abiotic and biotic environmental variation; and 3) soil microbiomes that vary in response to abiotic and biotic factors can change plant foliar phenology. We sh

SUBMITTER: Ware IM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8209103 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature