Oak stands along an elevation gradient have different molecular strategies for regulating bud phenology.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Global warming raises serious concerns about the persistence of species and populations locally adapted to their environment, simply because of the shift it produces in their adaptive landscape. For instance, the phenological cycle of tree species may be strongly affected by higher winter temperatures and late frost in spring. Given the variety of ecosystem services they provide, the question of forest tree adaptation has received increasing attention in the scientific community and catalyzed research efforts in ecology, evolutionary biology and functional genomics to study their adaptive capacity to respond to such perturbations.

Results

In the present study, we used an elevation gradient in the Pyrenees Mountains to explore the gene expression network underlying

SUBMITTER: Le Provost G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9948485 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature