Abstract

Introduction Introduction Materials and Methods Results Discussion Conclusion Author Contributions: References Adaptation to abiotic stress is an important driver of contemporary evolution in plant populations. Abiotic stressors have been implicated as driving factors in ecological speciation (Stebbins, 1952;Lexer & Fay, 2005), where populations have diverged across a number of traits, exhibit different niche characteristics, and eventually become reproductively isolated (Clausen, 1951; Lowry, 2012; Yardeni et al., 2016). Local adaptation to soil water availability is an especially important driver of plant evolution (Stebbins, 1952; Rajakaruna, 2004; ...