Heritability and quantitative genetic divergence of serotiny, a fire-persistence plant trait.

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ID Serval
serval:BIB_E33668B466E9
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
Heritability and quantitative genetic divergence of serotiny, a fire-persistence plant trait.
Périodique
Annals of Botany
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Hernández-Serrano A., Verdú M., Santos-Del-Blanco L., Climent J., González-Martínez S.C., Pausas J.G.
ISSN
1095-8290 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0305-7364
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2014
Volume
114
Numéro
3
Pages
571-577
Langue
anglais
Résumé
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Although it is well known that fire acts as a selective pressure shaping plant phenotypes, there are no quantitative estimates of the heritability of any trait related to plant persistence under recurrent fires, such as serotiny. In this study, the heritability of serotiny in Pinus halepensis is calculated, and an evaluation is made as to whether fire has left a selection signature on the level of serotiny among populations by comparing the genetic divergence of serotiny with the expected divergence of neutral molecular markers (QST-FST comparison).
METHODS: A common garden of P. halepensis was used, located in inland Spain and composed of 145 open-pollinated families from 29 provenances covering the entire natural range of P. halepensis in the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands. Narrow-sense heritability (h(2)) and quantitative genetic differentiation among populations for serotiny (QST) were estimated by means of an 'animal model' fitted by Bayesian inference. In order to determine whether genetic differentiation for serotiny is the result of differential natural selection, QST estimates for serotiny were compared with FST estimates obtained from allozyme data. Finally, a test was made of whether levels of serotiny in the different provenances were related to different fire regimes, using summer rainfall as a proxy for fire regime in each provenance.
KEY RESULTS: Serotiny showed a significant narrow-sense heritability (h(2)) of 0·20 (credible interval 0·09-0·40). Quantitative genetic differentiation among provenances for serotiny (QST = 0·44) was significantly higher than expected under a neutral process (FST = 0·12), suggesting adaptive differentiation. A significant negative relationship was found between the serotiny level of trees in the common garden and summer rainfall of their provenance sites.
CONCLUSIONS: Serotiny is a heritable trait in P. halepensis, and selection acts on it, giving rise to contrasting serotiny levels among populations depending on the fire regime, and supporting the role of fire in generating genetic divergence for adaptive traits.
Mots-clé
Heritability, heritable plant traits, fire ecology, serotiny, Q(ST), F-ST, selection, Pinus halepensis, Aleppo pine
Pubmed
Web of science
Open Access
Oui
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06/11/2014 11:45
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20/08/2019 17:07
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