NSF Young Investigator

本研究项目将研究 表型可塑性和限制的理论优势 由植物的一种常见的发育模式--预形成所强加的 的环境。 该项目将提供新的 深入了解工厂正常过程的潜力 发展，以限制条件下，表型 可塑性可能会发展。 %%% 这类研究可以产生经济和社会效益， 主要粮食商品品种农艺重要性 作物是针对特定的环境条件培育的， 不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.