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ReviewThe Plant cell2025

Advancing ecological and evolutionary research in Arabidopsis: Extending insights into model and nonmodel plants.

María Verónica Arana, F Xavier Picó

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Review in The Plant cell, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

María Verónica AranaInstituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche (Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria-Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas), Bariloche, Río Negro R8403DVZ, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0002-9483-7906
F Xavier PicóDepartamento de Ecología y Evolución, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Sevilla 41092, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-2849-4922

Funding

Agencia Estatal de Investigación of SpainAgencia Nacional de Promoción de la Investigación, el Desarrollo Tecnológico y la Innovación 2023-PD-I085Agencia Nacional de Promoción de la Investigación, el Desarrollo Tecnológico y la Innovación I087Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo RegionalInstituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria PID2023-147962NB-I00
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Arabidopsis is regarded as the gold standard among plant systems because it has generated knowledge with translational potential across various disciplines. Nevertheless, the influence of less-explored fields within the Arabidopsis community, such as ecology and evolutionary ecology, has yet to be synthesized to emphasize their contributions to other plant disciplines. This essay summarizes current eco-evolutionary knowledge in Arabidopsis and highlights its potential to enrich the insights made by the Arabidopsis community as well as others working with other plant models and nonmodel systems. We underline the value of accession-based approaches but also highlight the importance for developing population-based approaches to understand how and where evolutionary change begins. Furthermore, we focus on the evolutionary value of phenotypic plasticity as necessary to comprehend the response of organisms to environmental changes. We also elaborate on conceptual and technical challenges to transcriptomic studies conducted in field conditions that evaluate gene function and gene effect on integrated phenotypes in natural environments. Overall, we believe that the development of joint eco-evolutionary and genetic research in Arabidopsis can help other plant species to develop as model systems, but the Arabidopsis community should also look at the advances of other emerging plant model systems.

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ArabidopsisBiological EvolutionEcologyModels, BiologicalPhenotype

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PMID40510015
PMCPMC12290888

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