Does genetic variation in controlled experiments predict phenology of wild plants?

Phenology and the timing of development are often under selection. However, the relative contributions of genotype, environment, and prior developmental transitions to variance in the phenology of wild plants is largely unknown. Individual components of phenology (e.g., germination) might be loosely related with the timing of maturation due to variation in prior developmental transitions. Given widespread evidence that genetic variation in life history is adaptive, we investigated to what degree experimentally measured genetic variation in Arabidopsis phenology predicts phenology of plants in the wild. As a proxy of phenology, we obtained collection dates from nature of 227 naturally inbred Arabidopsis thaliana accessions from across Eurasia. We compared this phenology in nature with experimental data on the descendant inbred lines that we synthesized from two new and 155 published controlled experiments. We tested whether the genetic variation in flowering and germination timing from e..., , # Does genetic variation in controlled experiments predict phenology of wild plants?

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.612jm64k2](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.612jm64k2)

## Description of the data and file structure

These tables represent data from flowering time and seed germination experiments on a set of diverse Arabidopsis ecotypes.

### Files and variables

#### File: TableS2_FloweringExperimentData.2.1.csv

**Description:** Flowering time data on diverse Arabidopsis ecotypes.

##### Variables

* Ecotype: the text name of the natural inbred line.
* Line: the stock center number of the natural inbred line.
* Rep: the replicate plant
* Tray: tray where planted
* Stratification_Date: date seeds stratified
* Planting_Date: date seeds sown
* Covers_Off: when humidity domes were removed
* RandomizedThinned: when pots positions were randomized and seedlings thinned.
* NewPosition: when positions were shifted again.
* Germinated1.24.18: if germinated on this date.
* SickDead1.24.18: if sick ...,