Demography and genomics of fringed gentian
Why is a once-common wildflower disappearing across the northeastern US?
The fringed gentian (Gentianopsis crinita) is a charismatic late-summer wildflower of eastern North American wet meadows — and it’s quietly disappearing. We’re pairing long-term demographic monitoring across populations with whole-genome resequencing and a common-garden experiment to ask whether decline is driven by demographic stochasticity, loss of genetic variation, mismatch with a shifting climate, or some combination. A reference genome and population resequencing are underway.
With Anurag Agrawal (Cornell) and Jacob Landis (Cornell).