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本研究项目将研究表型可塑性的理论益处与预形成（温带环境中植物的一种常见发育模式）所施加的限制之间的潜在冲突。该项目将为植物正常发育过程的潜力提供新的见解，以限制表型可塑性可能预期进化的条件。这类研究具有重要的经济和农学意义，因为主要粮食作物的商业品种是为特定的环境条件而培育的，众所周知，它们不能适应新的或不同的环境条件。

This research project will examine the potential conflict between the theoretical benefits of phenotypic plasticity and constraints imposed by preformation, a common developmental pattern in plants of the pemperate environment. The project will provide new insights into the potential for normal processes of plant development to circumscribe the conditions under which phenotypic plasticity may be expected to evolve. %%% Research of this type could have outputs of economic and agronomic importance in that commercial varieties of major food crops are bred for specific environmental conditions and are notoriously unadaptable to new or different environmental conditions.