Ecological genomics of plant adaptation

植物适应的生态基因组学

• 批准号: 326865-2011
• 负责人: Stinchcombe, John
• 金额: $ 5.1万
• 依托单位: University of Toronto
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2013-01-01 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=526722
• 关键词: Ecological; genomics; plant; adaptation

One of biology's major goals is to describe understand adaptive evolution on multiple levels of organization: from the genes involved, their expression, and the traits they affect upto the ecological forces that produces natural selection, and how this is manifested in a geographic landscape where climate and seasonality vary. One promising area to address this challenge is in the transition to flowering in the plant, Arabidopsis thaliana. This species, which is in the same family as the important Canadian crop plant canola, has several advantages: the resources of a genomic model organism can be leveraged with studies of experimental ecology.

生物学的主要目标之一是描述和理解适应性进化的多层次组织：从基因，它们的表达，以及它们影响的特征，到产生自然选择的生态力量，以及这是如何在气候和季节性变化的地理景观中表现出来的。解决这一挑战的一个有希望的领域是植物拟南芥（Arabidopsis thaliana）向开花的过渡。该物种与重要的加拿大作物卡诺拉同属一科，具有几个优势：基因组模式生物的资源可以用于实验生态学研究。