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The genetic response of plant populations to a changing environment: the case for non-Mendelian processes

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Biodiversity, Temperate Ecosystems, and Global Change

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Classical Mendelian inheritance assumes the existence of chromosomal genes which are transferred from the parents to the next generation in a random fashion. In a diploid plant species, the zygote is derived from the fusion of two haploid gametes, one contributed by its maternal and one by its paternal parent. These gametes were formed after a random segregation during meiosis in each parent. The fertilization of the female (egg) by the male gamete (pollen) is likewise thought to be random. Therefore, when no internal or external factors are operating, the genetic composition of the progeny population can be described with statistical precision by the laws of probability theory. Fundamental principles are regular segregation and independent assortment between different pairs of alleles (Grant 1975). Based on these assumptions a whole body of population and quantitative genetic theory has been developed for plant population changes under the evolutionary forces of natural selection, mutation, migration and drift (i.e. Falconer 1989; Hedrick 1985). The models have been verified in a large set of observational and experimental data.

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Skrøppa, T., Johnsen, Ø. (1994). The genetic response of plant populations to a changing environment: the case for non-Mendelian processes. In: Boyle, T.J.B., Boyle, C.E.B. (eds) Biodiversity, Temperate Ecosystems, and Global Change. NATO ASI Series, vol 20. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78972-4_11

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