Summary
Adaptation to environmental conditions has been the key to success for plant species still existing today. Understanding how adaptation takes place is a major issue for both agriculture and forestry as well as for studies on environmental change. This programme aimed to take advantage of recent advances in the fields of ecology, genetics, molecular biology and physiology to study issues ranging from climatic adaptation and the genetic basis of adaptation through to understanding and quantifying natural selection. More
Duration
Five years, from 1997 to 2001.
