Maternal effects on seed traits such as germination are important components of the life
histories of plants because they represent the pathway from adult to offspring: the pathway …

The ability of an organism to alter the environment that it experiences has been termed
'niche construction'. Plants have several ways whereby they can determine the environment …

To quantify adaptive differentiation in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, we conducted
reciprocal transplant experiments for five years between two European populations, one …

Resource‐use strategies are hypothesized to evolve along climatic gradients. However, our
understanding of the environmental factors driving divergent evolution of resource‐use …

FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC) is a major regulator of flowering responses to seasonal
environmental factors. Here, we document that FLC also regulates another major life-history …

Plants sense light and temperature changes to regulate flowering time. Here, we show that
expression of the Arabidopsis florigen gene, FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT), peaks in the …

Germination timing of Arabidopsis thaliana displays strong plasticity to geographic location
and seasonal conditions experienced by seeds. We identified which plastic responses were …

Life-history traits controlling the duration and timing of developmental phases in the life cycle
jointly determine fitness. Therefore, life-history traits studied in isolation provide an …

If climate change outpaces the rate of adaptive evolution within a site, populations
previously well adapted to local conditions may decline or disappear, and banked seeds …

Seasonal germination timing strongly influences lifetime fitness and can affect the ability of
plant populations to colonize and persist in new environments. To quantify the influence of …