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TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 15, Issue 12, Pages 675-683Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2010.09.002
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- ETH domain
- Swiss National Science Foundation [CRSI33 127155/1]
- European ECOCHANGE project [FP6-036866]
- Institut Universitaire de France
- NSF [DEB-0553768]
- University of California at Santa Barbara
- State of California
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Landscape genetics is the amalgamation of landscape ecology and population genetics to help with understanding microevolutionary processes such as gene flow and adaptation. In this review, we examine why landscape genetics of plants lags behind that of animals, both in number of studies and consideration of landscape elements. The classical landscape distance/resistance approach to study gene flow is challenging in plants, whereas boundary detection and the assessment of contemporary gene flow are more feasible. By contrast, the new field of landscape genetics of adaptive genetic variation, establishing the relationship between adaptive genomic regions and environmental factors in natural populations, is prominent in plant studies. Landscape genetics is ideally suited to study processes such as migration and adaptation under global change.
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