Multi-omics analyses on Kandelia obovata reveal its response to transplanting and genetic differentiation among populations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Restoration through planting is the dominant strategy to conserve mangrove ecosystems. However, many of the plantations fail to survive. Site and seeding selection matters for planting. The process of afforestation, where individuals were planted in a novel environment, is essentially human-controlled transplanting events. Trying to deepen and expand the understanding of the effects of transplanting on plants, we have performed a seven-year-long reciprocal transplant experiment on Kandelia obovata along a latitudinal gradient.

Results

Combined phenotypic analyses and next-generation sequencing, we found phenotypic discrepancies among individuals from different populations in the common garden and genetic differentiation among populations. The central population wi

SUBMITTER: Zhao Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8287808 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature