Variation in flooding-induced morphological traits in natural populations of white clover (Trifolium repens) and their effects on plant performance during soil flooding | Zendy

Heidrun Huber | Zendy; Elke Jacobs | Zendy; Eric J. W. Visser | Zendy

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Variation in flooding-induced morphological traits in natural populations of white clover (Trifolium repens) and their effects on plant performance during soil flooding

Author(s) -

Heidrun Huber,

Elke Jacobs,

Eric J. W. Visser

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

annals of botany

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.567

H-Index - 176

eISSN - 1095-8290

pISSN - 0305-7364

DOI - 10.1093/aob/mcn149

Subject(s) - biology , flooding (psychology) , trifolium repens , trait , genetic variation , natural selection , ecology , agronomy , botany , selection (genetic algorithm) , genetics , gene , psychology , psychotherapist , artificial intelligence , computer science , programming language

Soil flooding leads to low soil oxygen concentrations and thereby negatively affects plant growth. Differences in flooding tolerance have been explained by the variation among species in the extent to which traits related to acclimation were expressed. However, our knowledge of variation within natural species (i.e. among individual genotypes) in traits related to flooding tolerance is very limited. Such data could tell us on which traits selection might have taken place, and will take place in future. The aim of the present study was to show that variation in flooding-tolerance-related traits is present among genotypes of the same species, and that both the constitutive variation and the plastic variation in flooding-induced changes in trait expression affect the performance of genotypes during soil flooding.

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