ArticleOecologia2011
Phenotypic and genetic differences in a perennial herb across a natural gradient of CO2 concentration.
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- Climate-driven convergent evolution in riparian ecosystems on sky islands.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Heritable Changes in Physiological Gas Exchange Traits in Response to Long-Term, Moderate Free-Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment.Frontiers in plant science · 2019Article
- Dependence of functional traits related to growth rates and their COJournal of plant research · 2018Article
- Evidence of Adaptation to Recent Changes in Atmospheric CO₂ in Four Weedy Species.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- Plant-plant interactions mediate the plastic and genotypic response of Plantago asiatica to CO2: an experiment with plant populations from naturally high CO2 areas.Annals of botany · 2016Article
- Evolutionary and ecological responses to anthropogenic climate change: update on anthropogenic climate change.Plant physiology · 2012Review
- Food security and climate change: on the potential to adapt global crop production by active selection to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2012Review
- Evolutionary context for understanding and manipulating plant responses to past, present and future atmospheric [CO2].Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2012Review
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Abstract
The atmospheric CO(2) concentration [CO(2)] has been increasing markedly since the industrial revolution and is predicted to reach 500-1,000 μmol mol(-1) by the end of this century. Although the short-term and acclimatory responses to elevated [CO(2)] have been well studied, much less is understood about evolutionary responses to high [CO(2)]. We studied phenotypic and genetic differences in Plantago asiatica populations around a natural CO(2) spring, where [CO(2)] has been consistently high over an evolutionary time scale. Our common-garden experiment revealed that plants transferred from habitats with higher [CO(2)] had higher relative growth rates, greater leaf to root ratios, lower photosynthetic rates, and lower stomatal conductance. The habitat-dependent differences were partly heritable because a similar trend of leaf to root ratio was found among their offsprings. Genetic analyses indicated that selfing or biparental inbreeding might promote local adaptation in areas with high [CO(2)] despite substantial gene flow across the [CO(2)] gradient. These results indicate that phenotypic and genetic differences have occurred between high and normal [CO(2)] populations.
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