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Demographic fate of Arabidopsis thaliana cohorts of autumn‐ and spring‐germinated plants along an altitudinal gradient by PICO, F. Xavier

“…1. Understanding how plants respond and adapt to varying environmental conditions has attracted the attention of plant ecologists for decades. To study this…”
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African genomes illuminate the early history and transition to selfing in Arabidopsis thaliana by Durvasula, Arun, Fulgione, Andrea, Gutaker, Rafal M., Alacakaptan, Selen Irez, Flood, Pádraic J., Neto, Célia, Tsuchimatsu, Takashi, Burbano, Hernán A., Picó, F. Xavier, Alonso-Blanco, Carlos, Hancock, Angela M.

“…Over the past 20 y, many studies have examined the history of the plant ecological and molecular model, Arabidopsis thaliana, in Europe and North America…”
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Altitudinal and climatic associations of seed dormancy and flowering traits evidence adaptation of annual life cycle timing in Arabidopsis thaliana by Vidigal, Deborah S., Marques, Alexandre C. S. S., Willems, Leo A. J., Buijs, Gonda, Méndez‐Vigo, Belén, Hilhorst, Henk W. M., Bentsink, Leónie, Picó, F. Xavier, Alonso‐Blanco, Carlos

“…The temporal control or timing of the life cycle of annual plants is presumed to provide adaptive strategies to escape harsh environments for survival and…”
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Natural Variation Identifies ICARUS1, a Universal Gene Required for Cell Proliferation and Growth at High Temperatures in Arabidopsis thaliana by Zhu, Wangsheng, Ausin, Israel, Seleznev, Andrei, Méndez-Vigo, Belén, Picó, F Xavier, Sureshkumar, Sridevi, Sundaramoorthi, Vignesh, Bulach, Dieter, Powell, David, Seemann, Torsten, Alonso-Blanco, Carlos, Balasubramanian, Sureshkumar

“…Plants are highly sensitive to environmental changes and even small variations in ambient temperature have severe consequences on their growth and development…”
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Genome‐wide signatures of flowering adaptation to climate temperature: Regional analyses in a highly diverse native range of Arabidopsis thaliana by Tabas‐Madrid, Daniel, Méndez‐Vigo, Belén, Arteaga, Noelia, Marcer, Arnald, Pascual‐Montano, Alberto, Weigel, Detlef, Xavier Picó, F., Alonso‐Blanco, Carlos

“…Current global change is fueling an interest to understand the genetic and molecular mechanisms of plant adaptation to climate. In particular, altered…”
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Deciphering the adjustment between environment and life history in annuals: lessons from a geographically-explicit approach in Arabidopsis thaliana by Manzano-Piedras, Esperanza, Marcer, Arnald, Alonso-Blanco, Carlos, Picó, F Xavier

“…The role that different life-history traits may have in the process of adaptation caused by divergent selection can be assessed by using extensive collections…”
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Altitudinal and Climatic Adaptation Is Mediated by Flowering Traits and FRI, FLC, and PHYC Genes in Arabidopsis by Méndez-Vigo, Belén, Picó, F. Xavier, Ramiro, Mercedes, Martínez-Zapater, José M., Alonso-Blanco, Carlos

“…Extensive natural variation has been described for the timing of flowering initiation in many annual plants, including the model wild species Arabidopsis…”
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GENETIC BASIS OF ADAPTATION IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA: LOCAL ADAPTATION AT THE SEED DORMANCY QTL DOG1 by Kronholm, Ilkka, Picó, F. Xavier, Alonso-Blanco, Carlos, Goudet, Jérôme, de Meaux, Juliette

“…Local adaptation provides an opportunity to study the genetic basis of adaptation and investigate the allelic architecture of adaptive genes. We study DELAY OF…”
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Introduction to the Special Issue: The ecology and genetics of population differentiation in plants by Picó, F Xavier, Abdelaziz, Mohamed, Castilla, Antonio R

“…Population differentiation is a pervasive process in nature. At present, evolutionary studies on plant population differentiation address key questions by…”
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Spatio-temporal variation in fitness responses to contrasting environments in Arabidopsis thaliana by Exposito-Alonso, Moises, Brennan, Adrian C., Alonso-Blanco, Carlos, Picó, F. Xavier

“…The evolutionary response of organisms to global climate change is expected to be strongly conditioned by preexisting standing genetic variation. In addition,…”
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Analyses of Natural Variation: Field Experiments and Nucleotide Diversity for Your Favorite Gene by Alonso-Blanco, Carlos, Méndez-Vigo, Belén, Xavier Picó, F

“…Arabidopsis has become a model plant for ecological and population genomics, owing to the substantial phenotypic and genotypic variation that exists among and…”
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CLINAL VARIATION IN SEED TRAITS INFLUENCING LIFE CYCLE TIMING IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA by Montesinos-Navarro, Alicia, Picó, F. Xavier, Tonsor, Stephen J.

“…Early life-history transitions are crucial determinants of lifetime survival and fecundity. Adaptive evolution in early life-history traits involves a complex…”
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The genetic structure of Arabidopsis thaliana in the south-western Mediterranean range reveals a shared history between North Africa and southern Europe by Brennan, Adrian C, Méndez-Vigo, Belén, Haddioui, Abdelmajid, Martínez-Zapater, José M, Picó, F Xavier, Alonso-Blanco, Carlos

“…Deciphering the genetic structure of Arabidopsis thaliana diversity across its geographic range provides the bases for elucidating the demographic history of…”
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Demographic and Genetic Patterns of Variation among Populations of Arabidopsis thaliana from Contrasting Native Environments by Montesinos, Alicia, Tonsor, Stephen J, Alonso-Blanco, Carlos, Picó, F. Xavier

“…Background: Understanding the relationship between environment and genetics requires the integration of knowledge on the demographic behavior of natural…”
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Tackling intraspecific genetic structure in distribution models better reflects species geographical range by Marcer, Arnald, Méndez‐Vigo, Belén, Alonso‐Blanco, Carlos, Picó, F. Xavier

“…Genetic diversity provides insight into heterogeneous demographic and adaptive history across organisms’ distribution ranges. For this reason, decomposing…”
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Genetic rescue by distant trees mitigates qualitative pollen limitation imposed by fine‐scale spatial genetic structure by Castilla, Antonio R., Garrote, Pedro J., Żywiec, Magdalena, Calvo, Gemma, Suárez‐Esteban, Alberto, Delibes, Miguel, Godoy, José A., Picó, F. Xavier, Fedriani, Jose M.

“…Restricted seed dispersal frequently leads to fine‐scale spatial genetic structure (i.e., FSGS) within plant populations. Depending on its spatial extent and…”
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Depicting the phenotypic space of the annual plant Diplotaxis acris in hyperarid deserts by Gomaa, Nasr H., Picó, F. Xavier

“…The phenotypic space encompasses the assemblage of trait combinations yielding well‐suited integrated phenotypes. At the population level, understanding the…”
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Seed germination, seedling traits, and seed bank of the tree Moringa peregrina (Moringaceae) in a hyper-arid environment by Gomaa, Nasr H., Picó, F. Xavier

“…Premise of the study: Water-limited hot environments are good examples of hyper-aridity. Trees are scarce in these environments but some manage to survive,…”
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Spatiotemporal dynamics of genetic variation at the quantitative and molecular levels within a natural Arabidopsis thaliana population by Méndez‐Vigo, Belén, Castilla, Antonio R., Gómez, Rocío, Marcer, Arnald, Alonso‐Blanco, Carlos, Picó, F. Xavier

“…Evolutionary change begins at the population scale. Therefore, understanding adaptive variation requires the identification of the factors maintaining and…”
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Environmental and genetic interactions reveal FLOWERING LOCUS C as a modulator of the natural variation for the plasticity of flowering in Arabidopsis by Méndez‐Vigo, Belén, Savic, Marija, Ausín, Israel, Ramiro, Mercedes, Martín, Beatriz, Picó, F. Xavier, Alonso‐Blanco, Carlos

“…The timing of flowering initiation depends strongly on the environment, a property termed as the plasticity of flowering. Such plasticity determines the…”
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