Latitudinal variation of genecological traits in native grasses of Patagonian rangelands

2013 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula E. Leva ◽  
Martín R. Aguiar ◽  
Andrea C. Premoli
Keyword(s):  
Plant Traits ◽  
Woody Species ◽  
Common Garden ◽  
Cultivated Plants ◽  
Isozyme Electrophoresis ◽  
Genetic Patterns ◽  
Forage Species ◽  
Vicariance Event ◽  
Poa Ligularis ◽  
Quantitative Results

Geographical variation in genetically based traits helps to elucidate the effect of distinct ecological and evolutionary processes on widespread plants. Whereas abundant information exists on genetic patterns of woody species in western humid Andes, such information is scarce for the neighbouring dry Patagonian steppe. We examined genecological traits of two native forage species vulnerable to overgrazing (Bromus pictus and Poa ligularis) in dry Occidental Phytogeographical District. We compared within-population genetic diversity and among-population (n = 6) divergence by using isozyme electrophoresis. We also cultivated plants under common garden to compare genetically based morphology (plant height, number of tillers by plant and weight per tiller). Analysis showed that 8 and 13 loci were polymorphic of 9 and 19 resolved loci in at least one population for Bromus and Poa, respectively. In general, plant traits decreased from north to south in both species. Genetic and quantitative results (FST/QST index) showed evidence of local adaptation in populations of both species. Genetic divergence among populations was significant. We detected two different geographical groups divided at the same latitude (42–43°S) in both species, supporting the hypothesis of a past vicariance event. Sustainable management of these forage species to cope with land-use and climate change will be enriched by the inclusion of genecological knowledge.

scholarly journals Structure of the Chemical and Genetic Diversity of the True Lavender over Its Natural Range

Plants ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 1640
Author(s):  
Yolande Despinasse ◽  
Sandrine Moja ◽  
Catherine Soler ◽  
Frédéric Jullien ◽  
Bernard Pasquier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Diversity ◽  
Environmental Variability ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Common Garden ◽  
Distribution Area ◽  
Cultivated Plants ◽  
Native Range ◽  
Massif Central ◽  
Multiple Datasets ◽  
Natural Range

The true lavender Lavandula angustifolia Miller is a Mediterranean aromatic shrub widely cultivated for its high quality essential oil used in perfumery and phytotherapy. Despite its economic importance, the intra-specific diversity among wild, non-cultivated plants remains poorly understood. We analyzed the structure of the chemical and genetic diversity of plants from 14 sites sampled over the entire native range of the true lavender. Volatile organic compounds of inflorescences were analyzed using gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. Genotyping was performed with fingerprinting genetic markers. To limit the influence of environmental variability on chemical composition, plants were grown in the same conditions in a common garden. Without prior knowledge, discriminant analysis of principal component identified unambiguously four distinct chemotypes among three genetic populations. Co-inertia analysis and supervised analysis which integrated multiple datasets indicated a strong congruency between chemical and genetic patterns. Two distinct genetic units were located at the edge of the distribution area in the south of Italy and in the northeast of Spain, and were associated with two distinct chemotypes. Our results confirmed the existence of three genetically distinct entities, suggesting speciation. All French populations and the Italian Piedmontese population were genetically homogeneous but separated in two distinct chemotypes. The dominant chemotype was present in the center of the native range in southeastern France and was at the origin of the current most cultivated French varieties. Its main compounds were linalyl acetate, linalool, and caryophyllene oxide. The second French chemotype was found in south of Massif Central and presented high abundance of valuable linalyl and lavandulyl acetates. Linalool, eucalyptol, β-caryophyllene, borneol, camphor, and cis-sabinene-hydrate were significantly associated with southern latitudes and their role would be worth exploring.

scholarly journals Herbivory and anti-herbivore defences in wild and cultivated Cnidoscolus aconitifolius: disentangling domestication and environmental effects

AoB Plants ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Solís-Montero ◽  
Daniela A Martínez-Natarén ◽  
Víctor Parra-Tabla ◽  
Carlos Ibarra-Cerdeña ◽  
Miguel A Munguía-Rosas
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Effects ◽  
Interaction Effect ◽  
Common Garden ◽  
Cultivated Plants ◽  
Phenotypic Changes ◽  
Cnidoscolus Aconitifolius ◽  
Herbivore Interactions ◽  
Plant Herbivore ◽  
Indirect Defences ◽  
Environment Influence

Abstract Phenotypic changes in plants during domestication may disrupt plant–herbivore interactions. Because wild and cultivated plants have different habitats and some anti-herbivore defences exhibit some plasticity, their defences may be also influenced by the environment. Our goal was to assess the effects of domestication and the environment on herbivory and some anti-herbivore defences in chaya (Cnidoscolus aconitifolius) in its centre of domestication. Herbivores, herbivory, and direct and indirect anti-herbivore defences were assessed in wild and cultivated plants. The same variables were measured in the field and in a common garden to assess environmental effects. Our results show that domestication increased herbivory and herbivore abundance, but reduced direct and some indirect defences (ants). The environment also affected the herbivore guild (herbivore abundance and richness) and some direct and indirect defences (trichome number and ants). There was also an interaction effect of domestication and the environment on the number of trichomes. We conclude that domestication and the environment influence herbivory and anti-herbivore defences in an additive and interactive manner in chaya.

scholarly journals Adaptive response to olive cultivation in a generalist parasitic nematode (Meloidogyne javanica)

2020 ◽  
Vol 131 (2) ◽  
pp. 356-368
Author(s):  
Elodie Chapuis ◽  
Nadeen Ali ◽  
Camille Noûs ◽  
Guillaume Besnard
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Response ◽  
Common Garden ◽  
Meloidogyne Javanica ◽  
Cultivated Plants ◽  
Asexual Parasite ◽  
Soil Nematode ◽  
Root Knot Nematode ◽  
Genetic Lineages ◽  
Morphological Differences ◽  
Wild Progenitors

Abstract Cultivated plants usually differ from their wild progenitors in several morphological and/or physiological traits. Their microbe communities might also differ because of adaptation to new conditions related to cultivation. To test this hypothesis, we investigated morphological traits in a parthenogenetic root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne javanica) from natural and agricultural environments. Seventeen populations of M. javanica were sampled on cultivated and wild olives in Morocco, then maintained in controlled conditions for a ‘common garden’ experiment. We estimated the genetic variation based on three traits (stylet size, neck width and body width) by a quantitative genetic design (ten families per population and nine individuals per family were measured), and molecular variation was investigated with a mitochondrial marker to identify the genetic lineages of nematode isolates sampled from wild and cultivated olives. Significant morphological differences were detected between individuals from wild vs. cultivated hosts for the three traits, whereas no phylogenetic clustering was observed among isolates collected on those two hosts. Our results thus suggest an adaptive response of the asexual parasite, possibly related to the deep modification of soil nematode communities between natural olive stands and orchards.

Morphological, ecological and genetic variability of Lavandula luisieri (Rozeira) Rivas-Martínez in central eastern Portugal

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernanda Delgado ◽  
Sílvia Ribeiro ◽  
Álvaro Alves ◽  
Eliseu Bettencourt ◽  
Sónia Dias
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Similarity ◽  
Plant Density ◽  
Plant Traits ◽  
Morphological Variability ◽  
Cultivated Plants ◽  
Interior Region ◽  
Plant Populations ◽  
Phenotypic Data ◽  
Genetic Characteristics ◽  
Central Eastern

The morphological characterisation and data analysis of germplasm accessions of wild Portuguese Lavandula luisieri (Rozeira) Rivas-Martínez from the southern Beira Interior region of central eastern Portugal are described. The study, based on seeds and cultivated plants, was conducted in 2005, 2006 and 2008 among populations selected from four sites (I, II, III and IV). Quantitative and qualitative phenotypic data relating to a set of 35 morphological traits were analysed using canonical discriminant analysis. Genetic similarity among accessions was assessed using amplified fragment length polymorphism molecular markers. The traits contributing most to the variability among studied populations were related to plant density, leaf colour, seed weight and various spike and flower characteristics. Plant populations from each of the four test sites were statistically distinct, exhibiting unique characteristics when compared with one another; however, populations from Sites II, III and IV showed greater genetic similarity and differed substantially from the population of Site I. Altitude and temperature were found to be the most significant environmental variables influencing plant traits, yet the morphological variability of L. luisieri was also influenced by soil pH levels, suggesting that the expressed variability is not only a result of genetic characteristics but also of existing ecological conditions.

Morphological and isozyme variation in Cerastium arvense (Caryophyllaceae) in the southern Andes

2002 ◽  
Vol 80 (7) ◽  
pp. 786-795 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Paula Quiroga ◽  
Andrea C Premoli ◽  
Cecilia Ezcurra
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Diversity ◽  
Natural Populations ◽  
Common Garden ◽  
High Elevation ◽  
Genetic Differences ◽  
Restricted Gene Flow ◽  
Common Garden Experiment ◽  
Southern Andes ◽  
Isozyme Electrophoresis ◽  
Ecotypic Variation

We tested the hypothesis that South Andean populations of the highly polymorphic and mostly Northern Hemisphere perennial forb Cerastium arvense L. show ecotypic variation along distinct habitats. We compared differences in morphology and flowering phenology among six natural populations occurring in different environments. Genetic differences were analyzed by a common-garden experiment and isozyme electrophoresis. Several of the morphological differences observed in the field were maintained after more than a year of cultivation in the common garden (e.g., plant height and leaf width). Mean tests and multivariate analyses on morphological traits generally distinguished high-elevation populations from the rest, and a similar grouping of populations was obtained from isozyme data at 10 loci. Cerastium arvense had genetic polymorphism levels of >50% in all populations and an average genetic diversity (HT = 0.254) of which approximately 20% was distributed among populations. These marked genetic differences are probably maintained by restricted gene flow due to variation in flowering time. Morphological and genetic differences suggest ecotypic variation in C. arvense in the southern Andes, which seems to have originated by disruptive selective pressures in different environments and the effect of genetic drift in response to the extreme climatic changes occurring during the Pleistocene.Key words: common-garden experiment, ecotypic variation, elevation and precipitation, genetic diversity, Patagonian Andes, phenology.

scholarly journals Breeding and genetic patterns in trait expression and efficiency of creation of spring barley cultivars

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 68-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. Kozachenko ◽  
N. I. Vasko ◽  
O. H. Naumov ◽  
P. M. Solonechnyi ◽  
O. V. Solonechna ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Grain Quality ◽  
Plant Traits ◽  
Spring Barley ◽  
Breeding Method ◽  
Hordeum Vulgare L ◽  
Barley Cultivars ◽  
State Register ◽  
Genetic Patterns ◽  
Yield Capacity ◽  
The Creation

Aim. Solutions of scientific problems of increasing the efficiency of genetic breeding methods are important objectives in the creation of valuable spring barley cultivars. Methods. Analyses of variance, variation, correlation and regression as well as genetic methods of analyzing features of genotypes in the diallel crossing and top-crossing design were used. Results. The important scientific problems with regard to increasing the efficiency of breeding for yield capacity, brewing quality and starch fraction composition were solved by establishing morphological and biological characteristics, dispersion, correlation, variability, adaptability, breeding and genetic peculiarities of inheritance, heritability, components of genetic variation, combining ability of plant traits as well as the effectiveness of hybridization and mutagenesis methods. As a result of the patterns established, the efficiency of the creation of economically valuable spring barley cultivars was increased. Conclusions. The new solutions of important scientific problems of raising the efficiency of breeding for yield capacity and grain quality were proposed and generalized. On this basis, valuable cultivars were created. As of 2017, 17 of them have been were included in the State Register of Plant Varieties suitable for dissemination inUkraine. Keywords: breeding-genetic patterns, Hordeum vulgare L., cultivar, breeding method, yield capacity and grain quality.

Genecology and seed zones for tapertip onion in the US Great Basin

Botany ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 91 (10) ◽  
pp. 686-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.C. Johnson ◽  
Barbara C. Hellier ◽  
Ken W. Vance-Borland
Keyword(s):  
Great Basin ◽  
Plant Traits ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Common Garden ◽  
The United States ◽  
Production Traits ◽  
Seed Transfer ◽  
Common Gardens ◽  
Seed Zones ◽  
Surrounding Areas

The choice of germplasm is critical for sustainable restoration, yet seed transfer guidelines are lacking for all but a few herbaceous species. Seed transfer zones based on genetic variability and climate were developed using tapertip onion (Allium acuminatum Hook.) collected in the Great Basin and surrounding areas in the United States. Bulbs from 53 locations were established at two common garden sites and morphological (such as leaf and scape dimensions), phenological (such as bolting date and flowering), and production traits (such as emergence and seeds per plant) were measured. Differences among source locations for plant traits within both common gardens were strong (P < 0.001), indicating genetic variation. Principal component 1 (PC 1) for phenological traits, with R2 = 0.59, and PC 1 for production traits, with R2 = 0.65, were consistently correlated with annual, maximum, minimum, and average temperature, annual precipitation, and frost-free days at source locations (P < 0.05). Regression of PC 1 phenology and PC 1 production scores with source location climates resulted in models with R2 values of 0.73 and 0.52, respectively. Using a geographic information system, maps of these models were overlaid to develop proposed seed zones to guide the choice of germplasm for conservation and restoration of tapertip onion across the collection region.

Altitudinal differentiation in growth and phenology among populations of temperate-zone tree species growing in a common garden

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 1259-1269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yann Vitasse ◽  
Sylvain Delzon ◽  
Caroline C. Bresson ◽  
Richard Michalet ◽  
Antoine Kremer
Keyword(s):  
Abies Alba ◽  
Woody Species ◽  
Common Garden ◽  
Quercus Petraea ◽  
Acer Pseudoplatanus ◽  
Climatic Gradient ◽  
Natural Area ◽  
Ilex Aquifolium ◽  
Fagus Sylvatica L ◽  
High Elevations

The aim of the study was to determine whether there are genetic variations in growth and leaf phenology (flushing and senescence) among populations of six woody species ( Abies alba Mill., Acer pseudoplatanus L., Fagus sylvatica L., Fraxinus excelsior L., Ilex aquifolium L., and Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.) along altitudinal gradients, using a common-garden experiment. We found (i) significant differences in phenology and growth among provenances for most species and (ii) evidence that these among-population differences in phenology were related to the annual temperature at the provenance sites for ash, beech, and oak. It is noteworthy that along the same climatic gradient, species can exhibit opposing genetic clines: beech populations from high elevations flushed earlier than those from low elevations, whereas we observed the opposite trend for ash and oak. For most species, significant altitudinal clines for growth were also revealed. Finally, we highlighted the fact that both phenology timing and growth rate were highly consistent from year to year. The results demonstrated that despite the proximity of the populations in their natural area, differences in altitude led to genetic differentiation in their phenology and growth. These adaptive capacities acting along a natural climatic gradient could allow populations to cope with current climate change.

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