All life forms across the globe are experiencing drastic changes in environmental conditions
as a result of global climate change. These environmental changes are happening rapidly …

Local adaptation is a fundamental phenomenon in evolutionary biology, with relevance to
formation of ecotypes, and ultimately new species, and application to restoration and …

Heterozygous alleles are widespread in outcrossing and clonally propagated woody plants.
The variation in heterozygosity that underlies population adaptive evolution and phenotypic …

The pace of tree microevolution during Anthropocene warming is largely unknown. We used
a retrospective approach to monitor genomic changes in oak trees since the Little Ice Age …

Contemporary climate change is exposing plant populations to novel combinations of
temperatures, drought stress,[CO 2] and other abiotic and biotic conditions. These changes …

Species differ dramatically in their prevalence in the natural world, with many species
characterized as rare due to restricted geographic distribution, low local abundance and/or …

Background Garlic is an entirely sterile crop with important value as a vegetable, condiment,
and medicine. However, the evolutionary history of garlic remains largely unknown. Results …

The dual challenges of global population explosion and environmental deterioration
represent major hurdles for 21st Century agriculture culminating in an unprecedented …

Environmental change, accelerated by anthropogenic activities, threatens many species and
can be especially challenging for rare species given their potentially limited capacity for …

Gene expression can be influenced by genetic variants that are closely linked to the
expressed gene (cis eQTLs) and variants in other parts of the genome (trans eQTLs). We …