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Effect of temperature variation in Agarophyton chilensis: contrasting the response of natural and farmed populations

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During the domestication process, farmers influence the reproduction and care of organisms to ensure a predictable supply of the resource of interest, causing changes in phenotypic and genotypic character frequencies. In Chile, as a result of unconscious selection and domestication process, farmed populations of the red alga Agarophyton chilensis have most likely undergone a reduction in genetic diversity and a modification in life-history traits compared to wild populations. In order to understand the implications that these processes may have in A. chilensis, we investigated how temperature variations (10 °C, 15 °C, and 20 °C) affect growth and photosynthetic responses of natural and farmed populations from three different localities along the Chilean coast. Natural population’s growth decreased at low and high temperature levels while all three farmed populations respond in a very similar way to temperature variation. We propose that a possible outcome of farming, in the A. chilensis, vegetatively propagated crops, could have been the selection of general-purpose-genotypes able to perform adequately across the range of temperature tested in our experiment. Furthermore, our results showed that photosynthetic activity was also affected by temperature treatments (e.g., different maximum maximal electron transport rate and quantum yield values depending on the population type and temperature). In a context of climate change, A. chilensis farmed populations may be better able to cope with impacts of anthropogenic activities than natural populations due to the buffer effect of their general-purpose-genotypes, tolerant to a wide range of conditions.
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hal-02148026 , version 1 (05-06-2019)

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Sara Usandizaga, Carolina Camus, José Luis Kappes, Marie-Laure Guillemin, Alejandro Buschmann. Effect of temperature variation in Agarophyton chilensis: contrasting the response of natural and farmed populations. Journal of Applied Phycology, 2019, pp.1-9. ⟨10.1007/s10811-019-1757-6⟩. ⟨hal-02148026⟩
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