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JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH
Volume 120, Issue 4, Pages 473-481Publisher
SPRINGER JAPAN KK
DOI: 10.1007/s10265-007-0087-y
Keywords
adaptive divergence; cytoplasmic inheritance; drought tolerance; heterophylly; plasticity; Potamogeton
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We tested whether maternal effects have led to the adaptive divergence of strains of the natural hybrid Potamogeton anguillanus, whose putative parents show contrastingly divergent ecologies. To examine the correlation between phenotypic characters and maternal types, we conducted drought experiments and DNA typing using nuclear and chloroplast genes. In the field, we investigated the distribution of the maternal type along the depth and the inshore-offshore gradient. Hybrids of P. malaianus mothers (M-hybrids) and those of P. perfoliatus mothers (P-hybrids) could not be distinguished morphologically under submerged conditions, but differed in drought tolerance. M-hybrids and P. malaianus formed more terrestrial shoots and exhibited higher survival than P-hybrids and P. perfoliatus in drought experiments. The distribution survey clarified that M-hybrids were dominant in shallow and inshore areas, whereas they were almost absent in deeper and offshore areas. These results indicate that the natural hybrid P. anguillanus differs in adaptive values depending on the maternal type. Bidirectional hybridization and heritable maternal effects may have played important roles in its phenotypic adaptation to local environmental conditions.
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