Authors
Robert Rauschkolb, Zixin Li, Sandrine Godefroid, Lara Dixon, Walter Durka, Maria Majekova, Oliver Bossdorf, Andreas Ensslin, Niek Scheepens
Publication date
2022
Journal
New Phytologist
Issue
10.1111/nph.18125
Description
- Ongoing global warming, coupled with increased drought frequencies, together with other biotic drivers may have resulted in complex evolutionary adaptation. The resurrection approach, comparing ancestors raised from stored seeds with their contemporary descendants under common conditions, is a powerful method to test for recent evolution in plant populations.
- We used 21–26‐yr‐old seeds of four European plant species – Matthiola tricuspidata, Plantago crassifolia, Clinopodium vulgare and Leontodon hispidus – stored in seed banks together with re‐collected seeds from their wild populations. To test for evolutionary changes, we conducted a glasshouse experiment that quantified heritable changes in plant responses to drought and simulated insect herbivory.
- In three out of the four studied species, we found evidence that descendants had evolved shorter life cycles through faster growth and flowering …
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