We invite you to a seminar by Magdalena Bohutínská (Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University) who works on the interface of ecology and plant biology.
In this talk, our guest will explore what studying repeated local adaptation can teach us about the mechanisms driving adaptive evolution. I investigate this topic using alpine adaptation in species within the genus Arabidopsis, closely related to the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.
Leveraging five different colonizations of alpine environments, Magdalena will address whether pleiotropy (the ability of a single gene to influence multiple traits) acts as a constraint or a driver of adaptation. She studies this question through the evolution of the phenylpropanoid pathway, which drives both the formation of pink alpine flowers and enhanced UV radiation protection in these plants.