Coarse- versus fine-grained water stress in Arabidopsis thaliana (Brassicaceae)

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 101-106

  Engelmann, Kathleen E ^a,b   Schlichting, Carl D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Environmental grain; Environmental heterogeneity; Heterogeneous environments; Plasticity; Reaction norm evolution; Scale of variation

Indexed keywords

PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REACTION NORM; WATER STRESS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRASSICACEAE;

EID: 12244310232     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.92.1.101     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. ALPERT, P., AND E. L. SIMMS. 2002. The relative advantages of plasticity and fixity in different environments: when is it good for a plant to adjust? Evolutionary Ecology 16: 285-297.
2. BELL, G. 1997. Experimental evolution in Chalmydomonas. I. Short-term selection in uniform and diverse environments. Heredity 78: 490-497.
3. BELL, G., AND X. REBOUD. 1997. Experimental evolution in Chalmydomonas. II. Genetic variation in strongly contrasted environments. Heredity 78: 498-506.
4. BRADSHAW, A. D. 1965. Evolutionary significance of phenotypic plasticity in plants. Advances in Genetics 13: 115-155.
5. BRADSHAW, A. D., AND K. HARDWICK. 1989. Evolution and stress - genotypic and phenotypic components. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 37: 137-155.
6. BROWN, J. S., AND N. B. PAVLOVIC. 1992. Evolution in heterogeneous environments: effects of migration on habitat specialization. Evolutionary Ecology 6: 360-382.
7. CALLAHAN, H. S., C. L. WELLS, AND M. PIGLIUCCI. 1999. Light-sensitive plasticity genes in Arabidopsis thaliana: mutant analysis and ecological genetics. Evolutionary Ecology Research 1: 731-751.
8. DAY, K. J., M. J. HUTCHINGS, AND E. A. JOHN. 2003. The effects of spatial pattern of nutrient supply on the early stages of growth in plant populations. Journal of Ecology 91: 305-315.
9. DAY, K. J., M. J. HUTCHINGS, AND E. A. JOHN. 2003. The effects of spatial pattern of nutrient supply on yield, structure and mortality in plant populations. Journal of Ecology 91: 541-553.
10. GILLESPIE, J. H. 1974. The role of environmental grain in the maintenance of genetic variations. American Naturalist 108: 145-151.
11. HALDANE, J. B. S., AND S. D. JAYAKAR. 1963. Polymorphism due to selection of varying direction. Journal of Genetics 58: 237-242.
12. JUENGER, T., AND J. BERGELSON. 2002. The spatial scale of genotype by environment interaction (GEI) for fitness in the loose-flowered gilia, lpomopsis laxiflora (Polemoniaceae). International Journal of Plant Sciences 163: 613-618.
13. KASSEN, R., AND G. BELL. 1998. Experimental evolution in Chalmydomonas. IV. Selection in environments that vary through time at different scales. Heredity 80: 732-740.
14. KOLODYNSKA, A., AND M. PIGLIUCCI. 2003. Multivariate responses to flooding in Arabidopsis: an experimental evolutionary investigation. Functional Ecology 17: 131-140.
15. KRISTJÁNSSON, B. K., S. SKÚLASON, AND D. L. G. NOAKES. 2002. Morphological segregation of Icelandic threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus L.). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 76: 247-257.
16. LEVENE, H. 1953. Genetic equilibrium when more than one ecological niche is available. American Naturalist 87: 331-333.
17. LEVINS, R. 1962. Theory of fitness in a heterogeneous environment. I. The fitness set and adaptive function. American Naturalist 96: 361-373.
18. LEVINS, R. 1963. Theory of fitness in a heterogeneous environment. II. Developmental flexibility and niche selection. American Naturalist 47: 75-90.
19. LEVINS, R. 1968. Evolution in changing environments. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
20. LLOYD, D. G. 1984. Variation strategies of plants in heterogeneous environments. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 21: 357-385.
21. MEYRE, D., A. LEONARDI, G. BRISSON, AND N. VARTANIAN. 2001. Drought-adaptive mechanisms involved in the escape/tolerance strategies of Arabidopsis Landsberg erecta and Columbia ecotypes and their F1 reciprocal progeny. Journal of Plant Physiology 158: 145-1152.
22. MKUMBIRA, J., N. M. MAHUNGU, AND U. GULLBERG. 2003. Grouping locations for efficient cassava evaluation in Malawi. Experimental Agriculture 39: 167-179.
23. NIENHUIS, J., G. R. SILLS, B. MARTIN, AND G. KING. 1994. Variance for water-use efficiency among ecotypes and recombinant inbred lines of Arabidopsis thaliana (Brassicaceae). American Journal of Botany 81: 943-947.
24. PIGLIUCCI, M., P. J. DIIORIO, AND C. D. SCHLICHTING. 1997. Phenotypic plasticity of growth trajectories in two species of Lobelia in response to nutrient availability. Journal of Ecology 85: 265-276.
25. PIGLIUCCI, M., J. WHITTON, AND C. D. SCHLICHTING. 1995. Reaction norms of Arabidopsis. I. Plasticity of characters and correlations across water, nutrient and light gradients. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 8: 421-438.
26. REBOUD, X., AND G. BELL. 1997. Experimental evolution in Chlamydomonas. III. Evolution of specialist and generalist types in environments that vary in space and time. Heredity 78: 507-514.
27. SAS. 1996. SAS user's guide. SAS Institute, Cary, North Carolina, USA.
28. SCHEINER, S. M., AND L. Y. YAMPOLSKY. 1998. The evolution of Daphnia pulex in a temporally varying environment. Genetical Research 72: 25-37.
29. SCHLICHTING, C. D. 1986. The evolution of phenotypic plasticity in plants. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 17: 667-693.
30. SCHLICHTING, C. D., AND M. PIGLIUCCI. 1998. Phenotypic evolution: a reaction norm perspective. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts.
31. STRATTON, D. A. 1994. Genotype-by-environment interactions for fitness of Erigeron annuus show fine-scale selective heterogeneity. Evolution 48: 1607-1618.
32. STRATTON, D. A., AND C. C. BENNINGTON. 1998. Fine-grained spatial and temporal variation in selection does not maintain genetic variation in Erigeron annuus. Evolution 52: 678-691.
33. SYSTAT. 2000. Systat, version 10. Systat Software Inc., Richmond, California, USA.
34. VAN TIENDEREN, P. H. 1991. Evolution of generalists and specialists in spatially heterogeneous environments. Evolution 45: 1317-1331.
35. WIJESINGHE, D. A., AND M. J. HUTCHINGS. 1999. The effects of environmental heterogeneity on the performance of Glechoma hederacea: the interactions between patch contrast and patch scale. Journal of Ecology 87: 860-872.
36. WINN, A. A. 1996. The contributions of programmed developmental change and phenotypic plasticity to within-individual variation in leaf traits in Dicerandra linearifolia. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 9: 737-752.