Digest: Linking coordinated shifts in plant resource allocation to a chromosomal inversion
Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
Dodsworth, S
Pérez-Escobar, O
Date published
2019
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). © 2019 The Author(s). Evolution © 2019 The Society for the Study of Evolution.
Journal title
Evolution
Volume
73
Issue
6
ISSN
0014-3820
Rights statement
In Copyright