The Genetic and Ecological Bases of Plant Adaptation and Speciation
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 300
Special Issue Editor
Interests: orchids; plant adaptation; pollination; reproductive barriers; speciation
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Dear Colleagues,
Understanding the processes that accompany or facilitate the origin and diversification of species has always been of great interest to evolutionary biologists. Genetic and ecological plant adaptation is a central component of many speciation-with-gene-flow models. This Special Issue on “Genetic and Ecological Bases of Plant Adaptation and Speciation” in Plants intends to contribute with research papers as well as reviews to the wide ranges of topics related to plant speciation. We welcome papers concerning:
-the genetic basis of the evolution of novel traits in response to environmental changes and how this can subsequently cause species isolation;
-the mechanisms of pre/postzygotic reproductive isolation;
-the analysis of hybrid developmental and the implications of species differentiation in terms of adaptation to a novel environment;
-allopolyploidy as an important mode of plant speciation;
-a population genomics approach to the study of plant adaptation and speciation;
-the role that pollinators play in the formation of new species and in establishing and maintaining reproductive barriers between species.
Prof. Giuseppe Pellegrino
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- adaptation
- hybridization
- pollination
- population genetics
- reproductive barriers
- speciation
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