Genetic basis of temporal variation in phenology in a woody perennial plant

2026/05/04 by Yang Liu · 1 voice
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · #Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control #Plant Gene Expression Analysis #Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

paper · doi:10.1038/s41540-026-00691-6

openalex publication_date 2026/05/04 · openalex created_date 2026/05/05 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/27

Abstract

with labile plasticity in phenological traits, overlapping in its two populations and no such plasticity-associated SNPs identified across study traits in single populations. Higher plasticity and more plasticity SNPs were identified in the population from climatically harsher conditions. While 6% of phenology peak-associated SNPs underwent adaptive selection, 95% of the identified plasticity SNPs were also peak associated with a given phenology, but none of them were found under selection. Plasticity SNP-containing genes highlighted environmental responsiveness functions for phenology plasticity. Projections for labile plasticity in phenology consistently showed that plasticity or trait peak-associated SNPs generated a higher predictive accuracy than non-associative counterparts. Altogether, the study elucidates the idiosyncratic characteristics of labile plasticity in growth phenology and deepens our understanding of its genetic modulation and evolution.

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