Adaptation of perennial Arabis alpina along a latitudinal gradient in Scandinavia (B02)

• Subject Area: Plant Genetics and Genomics
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 456082119

How do plants adapt to high-latitude environments that are extremely stressful and allow only very short growing seasons? We will address this question by studying fifteen Scandinavian populations of Arabis alpina along an approximately 1400 km transect from southern to northern Norway. We have obtained genomic sequences from more than 300 plants originating from these populations. We will use these sequences to model the postglacial colonization history of Scandinavia by A. alpina, to identify genomic regions associated with adaptation to high latitudes and to determine the role of flowering traits in this process.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 341: Plant Ecological Genetics
• Applicant Institution: Universität zu Köln
• Project Heads: Professor George Coupland, Ph.D., since 7/2022; Andrea Fulgione, Ph.D., since 7/2022