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Locally adaptive temperature response of vegetative growth in Arabidopsis thaliana

View ORCID ProfilePieter Clauw, View ORCID ProfileEnvel Kerdaffrec, View ORCID ProfileJoanna Gunis, View ORCID ProfileIlka Reichardt, Viktoria Nizhynska, Stefanie Koemeda, View ORCID ProfileJakub Jez, View ORCID ProfileMagnus Nordborg
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.15.480488
Pieter Clauw
1Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna BioCenter (VBC), 1030 Vienna, Austria
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Envel Kerdaffrec
2Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
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Joanna Gunis
1Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna BioCenter (VBC), 1030 Vienna, Austria
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Ilka Reichardt
3Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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Viktoria Nizhynska
1Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna BioCenter (VBC), 1030 Vienna, Austria
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Stefanie Koemeda
4Plant Sciences Facility, Vienna BioCenter Core Facilities GmbH (VBCF), 1030 Vienna, Austria
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Jakub Jez
4Plant Sciences Facility, Vienna BioCenter Core Facilities GmbH (VBCF), 1030 Vienna, Austria
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Magnus Nordborg
1Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna BioCenter (VBC), 1030 Vienna, Austria
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We investigated early vegetative growth of natural Arabidopsis thaliana accessions in cold, non-freezing temperatures, similar to temperatures these plants naturally encounter in fall at northern latitudes. We found that accessions from northern latitudes produced larger seedlings than accessions from southern latitudes, partly as a result of larger seed size. However, their subsequent vegetative growth when exposed to colder temperatures was slower. The difference was too large to be explained by random population differentiation, and is thus suggestive of local adaptation, a notion that is further supported by substantial transcriptome and metabolome changes in northern accessions. We hypothesize that the reduced growth of northern accessions is an adaptive response, and a consequence of reallocating resources towards cold acclimation and winter survival.

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  • https://github.com/picla/growth_16C_6C/

  • https://github.com/vevel/seed_size

  • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/807069

  • https://zenodo.org/record/6076948#.Ygt1P98o9hE

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Locally adaptive temperature response of vegetative growth in Arabidopsis thaliana
Pieter Clauw, Envel Kerdaffrec, Joanna Gunis, Ilka Reichardt, Viktoria Nizhynska, Stefanie Koemeda, Jakub Jez, Magnus Nordborg
bioRxiv 2022.02.15.480488; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.15.480488
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Locally adaptive temperature response of vegetative growth in Arabidopsis thaliana
Pieter Clauw, Envel Kerdaffrec, Joanna Gunis, Ilka Reichardt, Viktoria Nizhynska, Stefanie Koemeda, Jakub Jez, Magnus Nordborg
bioRxiv 2022.02.15.480488; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.15.480488

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