Laura Leventhal

This study estimates a thermal adaptation lag of 1.91°C in Arabidopsis thaliana, indicating populations are better adapted to cooler climates than their home environments.

The paper examines temporal and spatial variation in selection on flowering traits in Brassica rapa by analyzing male reproductive fitness across experimental populations.

The paper shows that genetic makeup affects survival under simulated climate change, with deleterious mutations and maladaptive alleles reducing fitness in stressful climates.

The paper uses herbarium specimens to show that closely related wildflower species, despite occupying diverse annual climates, track similar seasonal climate conditions through phenological shifts and spatial refugia.

The paper uses herbarium specimens to reconstruct climate conditions and assess their impact on phenology and reproduction across a plant clade, finding precipitation onset and amount best predict phenology but weakly predict reproduction.

This study observes rapid genetic adaptation and population dynamics in Arabidopsis thaliana across diverse climates over 5 years, showing predictable adaptation trends linked to survival and extinction risks.

This study shows that gene editing can relax selection constraints on plant traits by altering genetic correlations between flowering time and water use efficiency in Arabidopsis thaliana.