ReviewThe Plant cell2009
What has natural variation taught us about plant development, physiology, and adaptation?
Review in The Plant cell, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 213 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Wild strains reveal natural variation in C. elegans avoidance behaviors.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2025Article
- Advancing ecological and evolutionary research in Arabidopsis: Extending insights into model and nonmodel plants.The Plant cell · 2025Review
- Dynamic Changes in Functional Components of Dendrobium officinale and Their Applications in Food Science: A Review.Plant foods for human nutrition (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2025Review
- Wheat TaPYL9-involved signalling pathway impacts plant drought response through regulating distinct osmotic stress-associated physiological indices.Plant biotechnology journal · 2025Article
- Natural variation in root exudate composition in the genetically structured Arabidopsis thaliana in the Iberian Peninsula.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- Hybrid Pennisetum colonization by Bacillus megaterium BM18-2 labeled with green fluorescent protein (GFP) under Cd stress.Archives of microbiology · 2025Article
- Induced and natural variation affect traits independently in hybrid Populus.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Article
- Complementary approaches to dissect late leaf rust resistance in an interspecific raspberry population.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Article
- The intron binding protein EMB-4 is an opposite regulator of cold and high temperature tolerance inPNAS nexus · 2024Article
- Programmed cell death regulator BAP2 is required for IRE1-mediated unfolded protein response in Arabidopsis.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Genomes of Meniocus linifolius and Tetracme quadricornis reveal the ancestral karyotype and genomic features of core Brassicaceae.Plant communications · 2024Article
- A natural variation in OsDSK2a modulates plant growth and salt tolerance through phosphorylation by SnRK1A in rice.Plant biotechnology journal · 2024Article
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Abstract
Nearly 100 genes and functional polymorphisms underlying natural variation in plant development and physiology have been identified. In crop plants, these include genes involved in domestication traits, such as those related to plant architecture, fruit and seed structure and morphology, as well as yield and quality traits improved by subsequent crop breeding. In wild plants, comparable traits have been dissected mainly in Arabidopsis thaliana. In this review, we discuss the major contributions of the analysis of natural variation to our understanding of plant development and physiology, focusing in particular on the timing of germination and flowering, plant growth and morphology, primary metabolism, and mineral accumulation. Overall, functional polymorphisms appear in all types of genes and gene regions, and they may have multiple mutational causes. However, understanding this diversity in relation to adaptation and environmental variation is a challenge for which tools are now available.
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