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Phenotypic responses to light, water, and nutrient conditions in the allopolyploid Arabidopsis suecica and its parent species A. thaliana and A. arenosa: Does the allopolyploid outrange its parents?

Polyploid species possess more than two sets of chromosomes and may show high gene redundancy, hybrid vigor, and masking of deleterious alleles compared to their parent species. Following this, it is hypothesized that this makes them better at adapting to novel environments than their parent species...

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Autores principales: Kornstad, Torbjørn, Ohlson, Mikael, Fjellheim, Siri
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9101594/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35592071
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8915
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description Polyploid species possess more than two sets of chromosomes and may show high gene redundancy, hybrid vigor, and masking of deleterious alleles compared to their parent species. Following this, it is hypothesized that this makes them better at adapting to novel environments than their parent species, possibly due to phenotypic plasticity. The allopolyploid Arabidopsis suecica and its parent species A. arenosa and A. thaliana were chosen as a model system to investigate relationships between phenotypic plasticity, fitness, and genetic variation. Particularly, we test if A. suecica is more plastic, show higher genetic diversity, and/or have higher fitness than its parent species. Wild Norwegian populations of each species were analyzed for phenotypic responses to differences in availability of nutrient, water, and light, while genetic diversity was assessed through analysis of AFLP markers. Arabidopsis arenosa showed a higher level of phenotypic plasticity and higher levels of genetic diversity than the two other species, probably related to its outbreeding reproduction strategy. Furthermore, a general positive relationship between genetic diversity and phenotypic plasticity was found. Low genetic diversity was found in the inbreeding A. thaliana. Geographic spacing of populations might explain the clear genetic structure in A. arenosa, while the lack of structure in A. suecica could be due to coherent populations. Fitness measured as allocation of resources to reproduction, pointed toward A. arenosa having lower fitness under poor environmental conditions. Arabidopsis suecica, on the other hand, showed tendencies toward keeping up fitness under different environmental conditions.
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spelling pubmed-91015942022-05-18 Phenotypic responses to light, water, and nutrient conditions in the allopolyploid Arabidopsis suecica and its parent species A. thaliana and A. arenosa: Does the allopolyploid outrange its parents? Kornstad, Torbjørn Ohlson, Mikael Fjellheim, Siri Ecol Evol Research Articles Polyploid species possess more than two sets of chromosomes and may show high gene redundancy, hybrid vigor, and masking of deleterious alleles compared to their parent species. Following this, it is hypothesized that this makes them better at adapting to novel environments than their parent species, possibly due to phenotypic plasticity. The allopolyploid Arabidopsis suecica and its parent species A. arenosa and A. thaliana were chosen as a model system to investigate relationships between phenotypic plasticity, fitness, and genetic variation. Particularly, we test if A. suecica is more plastic, show higher genetic diversity, and/or have higher fitness than its parent species. Wild Norwegian populations of each species were analyzed for phenotypic responses to differences in availability of nutrient, water, and light, while genetic diversity was assessed through analysis of AFLP markers. Arabidopsis arenosa showed a higher level of phenotypic plasticity and higher levels of genetic diversity than the two other species, probably related to its outbreeding reproduction strategy. Furthermore, a general positive relationship between genetic diversity and phenotypic plasticity was found. Low genetic diversity was found in the inbreeding A. thaliana. Geographic spacing of populations might explain the clear genetic structure in A. arenosa, while the lack of structure in A. suecica could be due to coherent populations. Fitness measured as allocation of resources to reproduction, pointed toward A. arenosa having lower fitness under poor environmental conditions. Arabidopsis suecica, on the other hand, showed tendencies toward keeping up fitness under different environmental conditions. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-05-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9101594/ /pubmed/35592071 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8915 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Phenotypic responses to light, water, and nutrient conditions in the allopolyploid Arabidopsis suecica and its parent species A. thaliana and A. arenosa: Does the allopolyploid outrange its parents?
title Phenotypic responses to light, water, and nutrient conditions in the allopolyploid Arabidopsis suecica and its parent species A. thaliana and A. arenosa: Does the allopolyploid outrange its parents?
title_full Phenotypic responses to light, water, and nutrient conditions in the allopolyploid Arabidopsis suecica and its parent species A. thaliana and A. arenosa: Does the allopolyploid outrange its parents?
title_fullStr Phenotypic responses to light, water, and nutrient conditions in the allopolyploid Arabidopsis suecica and its parent species A. thaliana and A. arenosa: Does the allopolyploid outrange its parents?
title_full_unstemmed Phenotypic responses to light, water, and nutrient conditions in the allopolyploid Arabidopsis suecica and its parent species A. thaliana and A. arenosa: Does the allopolyploid outrange its parents?
title_short Phenotypic responses to light, water, and nutrient conditions in the allopolyploid Arabidopsis suecica and its parent species A. thaliana and A. arenosa: Does the allopolyploid outrange its parents?
title_sort phenotypic responses to light, water, and nutrient conditions in the allopolyploid arabidopsis suecica and its parent species a. thaliana and a. arenosa: does the allopolyploid outrange its parents?
topic Research Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9101594/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35592071
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8915
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