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From genotype to phenotype: unraveling the complexities of cold adaptation in forest trees
Glenn T. Howe,Sally N. Aitken,David B. Neale,Kathleen D. Jermstad,Nicholas C. Wheeler,Tony H. H. Chen +5 more
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Analyses of quantitative trait loci indicate that cold adaptation traits are mostly controlled by population differentiation, with phenological traits having the highest heritabilities.Abstract:
Adaptation to winter cold in temperate and boreal trees involves complex genetic, physiological, and developmental processes. Genecological studies demonstrate the existence of steep genetic clines...read more
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Human biochemical genetics
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Adaptation, migration or extirpation: climate change outcomes for tree populations
TL;DR: As all tree species will be suffering lags, interspecific competition may weaken, facilitating persistence under suboptimal conditions, and species with small populations, fragmented ranges, low fecundity, or suffering declines due to introduced insects or diseases should be candidates for facilitated migration.
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Gene Flow and Local Adaptation in Trees
TL;DR: Results from the extensive experimental plantations of populations of forest trees from different parts of the range show that populations can survive and grow in broad areas outside the home site, but intra- and interspecific competition limit the distribution of genotypes.
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CO/FT Regulatory Module Controls Timing of Flowering and Seasonal Growth Cessation in Trees
Henrik Böhlenius,Tao Huang,Laurence Charbonnel-Campaa,Amy M. Brunner,Amy M. Brunner,Stefan Jansson,Steven H. Strauss,Ove Nilsson +7 more
TL;DR: It is shown that the CO/FT regulatory module, which controls flowering time in response to variations in daylength in annual plants, controls flowering in aspen trees, Unexpectedly, it also controls the short-day–induced growth cessation and bud set occurring in the fall.
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Potential for evolutionary responses to climate change – evidence from tree populations
Florian Alberto,Florian Alberto,Florian Alberto,Sally N. Aitken,Ricardo Alía,Santiago C. González-Martínez,Heikki Hänninen,Antoine Kremer,Antoine Kremer,François Lefèvre,Thomas Lenormand,Sam Yeaman,Ross W. Whetten,Outi Savolainen +13 more
TL;DR: Responding to climate change will likely require that the quantitative traits of populations again match their environments, and it is found that genetic differentiation between populations and clinal variation along environmental gradients were very common.
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Introduction to quantitative genetics
TL;DR: The genetic constitution of a population: Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and changes in gene frequency: migration mutation, changes of variance, and heritability are studied.
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Human biochemical genetics
TL;DR: For the next few weeks the course is going to be exploring a field that’s actually older than classical population genetics, although the approach it’ll be taking to it involves the use of population genetic machinery.
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PLANT COLD ACCLIMATION: Freezing Tolerance Genes and Regulatory Mechanisms
TL;DR: This review of recent advances in determining the nature and function of genes with roles in freezing tolerance and the mechanisms involved in low temperature gene regulation and signal transduction concludes that cold acclimation includes the expression of certain cold-induced genes that function to stabilize membranes against freeze-induced injury.
Plant cold acclimation: Freezing tolerance genes and regulatory mechanisms
TL;DR: A review of recent advances in determining the nature and function of genes with roles in freezing tolerance and the mechanisms involved in low temperature gene regulation and signal transduction are described in this article.
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Geographic variation, speciation, and clines
TL;DR: Professor Endler shows how geographic differentiation and speciation may develop in spite of continuous gene flow, and considers the interpretation of natural clines and the associated geographic patterns of subspecies and species.
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