The PlantCline project aims to obtain a mechanistic understanding of the interrelationships among a selection of genes, expression of phenotypic traits, and real-life fitness.
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In The Wheat Code, Priya Tang, a geneticist who examines DNA from ancient wheat grains, searches for traits that could make wheat more resilient to modern climate extremes and uses this information to help create ideal conditions for the wheat field.
Climate factors such as temperature and precipitation vary tremendously over continental scales, strongly structuring biomes along latitudinal gradients. Many species, however, have continental distributions and are assumed to be adapted to cope with their local climate, either genetically or plastically. While such adaptive capacities are central to their resilience to climatic changes, few studies have explored the underlying mechanisms in terms of genetics and ecological traits.
