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Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volume 76, 2025

Planting Genomes in the Wild: from Genetics History to the Ecology and Evolutionary Genomics Era

  • Laura Leventhal1,2,4, Megan Ruffley1,4 and Moises Exposito-Alonso1,2,3,4,5
  • 1Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, California, USA 2Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA 3Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, California, USA 4Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA 5Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA; email: [email protected]
  • Vol. 76:605-635 (Volume publication date May 2025)
  • First published as a Review in Advance on February 19, 2025
  • Copyright © 2025 by the author(s).
    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See credit lines of images or other third-party material in this article for license information.

Abstract

The genetics model system (L.) Heynh. lives across a vast geographic range with contrasting climates, in response to which it has evolved diverse life histories and phenotypic adaptations. In the last decade, the cataloging of worldwide populations, DNA sequencing of whole genomes, and conducting of outdoor field experiments have transformed it into a powerful evolutionary ecology system to understand the genomic basis of adaptation. Here, we summarize new insights on following the coordinated efforts of the 1001 Genomes Project, the latest reconstruction of biogeographic and demographic history, and the systematic genomic mapping of trait natural variation through 15 years of genome-wide association studies. We then put this in the context of local adaptation across climates by summarizing insights from 73 outdoor common garden experiments conducted to date. We conclude by highlighting how molecular and genomic knowledge of adaptation can help us to understand species’ (mal)adaptation under ongoing climate change.

Keyword(s): 1001 Genomes, Arabidopsis thaliana, climate adaptation, common gardens, natural history
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Planting Genomes in the Wild: Arabidopsis from Genetics History to the Ecology and Evolutionary Genomics Era
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