Digest: Linking coordinated shifts in plant resource allocation to a chromosomal inversion*. (25th April 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dodsworth, Steven; Pérez‐Escobar, Oscar A.
• Is Part Of: Evolution. Volume 73:Number 6(2019)
• Page Start: 1318
• Page End: 1319
• Publication Date: 2019-04-25
• Subjects: Evolution -- Periodicals; Heredity -- Periodicals; Évolution (Biologie) -- Périodiques; Hérédité -- Périodiques; 338.47004094
• DOI: 10.1111/evo.13751
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0014-3820

Abstract

Abstract: Local adaptation in plants often requires coordinated shifts among resources. Lowry et al. provide evidence for physiological and genomic mechanisms underpinning adaptive shifts in yellow monkeyflower ( Mimulus guttatus), such as the transition between annual and perennial life histories. In M. guttatus, differential activity of gibberellins, governed partially by a chromosomal inversion, is responsible for shifts between growth, reproduction, and herbivore defense (secondary compound production).