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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY
Volume 91, Issue 7, Pages 1036-1045Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.91.7.1036
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adaptation; Arabidopsis lyrata; Brassicaceae; day length; flowering time; vernalization
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Arabidopsis lyrata (Brassicaceae) is a close outcrossing relative of A. thaliana. We examine flowering time variation of northern and southern A. lyrata populations in controlled environmental conditions, in a common garden experiment with A. thaliana, and in the field. Southern populations of A. lyrata flowered earlier than northern ones in all environmental conditions. Individuals from southern populations were more likely to flower in short days (14 h light) than northern ones, and all populations had a higher probability of flowering and flowered more rapidly in long days (20 h). The interaction of population and day length significantly affected flowering probability, and flowering time in one of two comparisons. The common garden experiment demonstrated differences between populations in the response to seed cold treatment, but growth chamber experiments showed no vernalization effect after 4 wk of rosette cold treatment. In a field population in Norway, a high proportion of the plants flowered in each year of the study. The plants progressed to flowering more rapidly in the field and common garden than in the growth chamber. The genetic basis of these flowering time differences here can be further studied using A. thaliana genetic tools.
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