Epigenetic and Phenotypic Responses to Experimental Climate Change of Native and Invasive Carpobrotus edulis.

ABSTRACT: Despite the recent discoveries on how DNA methylation could help plants to adapt to changing environments, the relationship between epigenetics and climate change or invasion in new areas is still poorly known. Here, we investigated, through a field experiment, how the new expected climate scenarios for Southern Europe, i.e., increased temperature and decreased rainfall, might affect global DNA methylation in relation to phenotypic variation in individuals of clonal plant, Carpobrotus edulis, from its native (Southern African) and invaded (northwestern Iberian Peninsula) area. Our results showed that changes in temperature and rainfall induced phenotypic but not global DNA methylation differences among plants, and the climatic effects were similar for plants coming from the native o

SUBMITTER: Campoy JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9247612 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature