Authors: Buryová, Blanka¹; Shaw, A. Jonathan²

Source: Journal of Bryology, Volume 27, Number 1, March 2005 , pp. 13-22(10)

Publisher: Maney Publishing

Abstract:

Gametophytes from six populations of the moss Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid. were grown under two light and two water regimes in order to assess the effects of these environmental factors on gametophytic architecture and leaf and leaf-cell dimensions. Both light and water affectedgrowth, but the light treatments had a greater effect, and on more characters, than did the water treatments. Significant population effects under common garden conditions point to genetic variation for several traits, and population × environmental treatment interactions demonstratedgenetic variation for patterns of phenotypic plasticity, i.e. plants differed in their 'norms of reaction'. Variation among populations in leaf dimensions tended to have a strong genetic component (20–30% of the total variation), whereas cell dimensions showed relatively little geneticvariation (<10% of the total).

Keywords: PHILONOTIS FONTANA; NORMS OF REACTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; BRYOPHYTES; VEGETATIVE REPRODUCTION; ADAPTATION

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/174328205X40545

Affiliations: 1: Institute of Botany AS CR, Průhonice, Czech Republic 2: Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A

Publication date: 2005-03-01

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