ArticleNature ecology & evolution2018
A plant biodiversity effect resolved to a single chromosomal region.
Article in Nature ecology & evolution, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
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- Coadaptation of coexisting plants enhances productivity in an agricultural system.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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- Increasing plant group productivity through latent genetic variation for cooperation.PLoS biology · 2022Article
- Shift in beneficial interactions during crop evolution.Evolutionary applications · 2022Review
- From cultivar mixtures to allelic mixtures: opposite effects of allelic richness between genotypes and genotype richness in wheat.The New phytologist · 2022Article
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- Toward Unifying Evolutionary Ecology and Genomics to Understand Positive Plant-Plant Interactions Within Wild Species.Frontiers in plant science · 2021Review
- Effects of genomic and functional diversity on stand-level productivity and performance of non-native Arabidopsis.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
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- Terrestrial land-cover type richness is positively linked to landscape-level functioning.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Plant domestication disrupts biodiversity effects across major crop types.Ecology letters · 2019Article
- Linking genes with ecological strategies in Arabidopsis thaliana.Journal of experimental botany · 2019Review
- A multitrophic perspective on biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research.Advances in ecological research · 2019Article
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Abstract
Despite extensive evidence that biodiversity promotes plant community productivity, progress towards understanding the mechanistic basis of this effect remains slow, impeding the development of predictive ecological theory and agricultural applications. Here, we analysed non-additive interactions between genetically divergent Arabidopsis accessions in experimental plant communities. By combining methods from ecology and quantitative genetics, we identify a major effect locus at which allelic differences between individuals increase the above-ground productivity of communities. In experiments with near-isogenic lines, we show that this diversity effect acts independently of other genomic regions and can be resolved to a single region representing less than 0.3% of the genome. Using plant-soil feedback experiments, we also demonstrate that allelic diversity causes genotype-specific soil legacy responses in a consecutive growing period, even after the original community has disappeared. Our work thus suggests that positive diversity effects can be linked to single Mendelian factors, and that a range of complex community properties can have a simple cause. This may pave the way to novel breeding strategies, focusing on phenotypic properties that manifest themselves beyond isolated individuals; that is, at a higher level of biological organization.
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