Global trends in phenotypic plasticity of plants

GC Stotz, C Salgado‐Luarte, VM Escobedo… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Predicting plastic responses is crucial to assess plant species potential to adapt to climate
change, but little is known about which factors drive the biogeographical patterns of …

A research agenda for seed‐trait functional ecology

A Saatkamp, A Cochrane, L Commander… - New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Trait‐based approaches have improved our understanding of plant evolution, community
assembly and ecosystem functioning. A major challenge for the upcoming decades is to …

How to analyse plant phenotypic plasticity in response to a changing climate

PA Arnold, LEB Kruuk, AB Nicotra - New Phytologist, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Plant biology is experiencing a renewed interest in the mechanistic underpinnings and
evolution of phenotypic plasticity that calls for a re‐evaluation of how we analyse phenotypic …

Climate change impacts on seagrass meadows and macroalgal forests: an integrative perspective on acclimation and adaptation potential

B Duarte, I Martins, R Rosa, AR Matos… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Marine macrophytes are the foundation of algal forests and seagrass meadows–some of the
most productive and diverse coastal marine ecosystems on the planet. These ecosystems …

Species‐wide patterns of DNA methylation variation in Quercus lobata and their association with climate gradients

PF Gugger, S Fitz‐Gibbon, M PellEgrini… - Molecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
DNA methylation in plants affects transposon silencing, transcriptional regulation and thus
phenotypic variation. One unanswered question is whether DNA methylation could be …

Sparse evidence for selection on phenotypic plasticity in response to temperature

PA Arnold, AB Nicotra… - … Transactions of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Phenotypic plasticity is frequently assumed to be an adaptive mechanism by which
organisms cope with rapid changes in their environment, such as shifts in temperature …

Persistent and plastic effects of temperature on DNA methylation across the genome of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

DCH Metzger, PM Schulte - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Epigenetic mechanisms such as changes in DNA methylation have the potential to affect the
resilience of species to climate change, but little is known about the response of the …

Small ocean temperature increases elicit stage-dependent changes in DNA methylation and gene expression in a fish, the European sea bass

D Anastasiadi, N Díaz, F Piferrer - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
In natural fish populations, temperature increases can result in shifts in important phenotypic
traits. DNA methylation is an epigenetic mechanism mediating phenotypic changes …

Epigenetic inheritance and plant evolution

M Miryeganeh, H Saze - Population Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Being sessile organisms, plants show a high degree of developmental plasticity to cope with
a constantly changing environment. While plasticity in plants is largely controlled genetically …

Gene body DNA methylation in seagrasses: inter-and intraspecific differences and interaction with transcriptome plasticity under heat stress

L Entrambasaguas, M Ruocco, KJF Verhoeven… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The role of DNA methylation and its interaction with gene expression and transcriptome
plasticity is poorly understood, and current insight comes mainly from studies in very few …