Dataset related to article: Differential effect of climate of origin and cultivation climate on structural and biochemical plant traits

Exploring patterns and causes of intraspecific trait variation is crucial for a better understanding of the effects of climate change on plant populations and ecosystems. However, our current understanding of the intraspecific trait variation is mainly based on structural (morphological) traits, and we have limited knowledge on patterns and causes of variation in biochemical traits (e.g., leaf pigments), which are also crucial for plant adaptation. As a result, we also do not know how similar the climatic effects on structural versus biochemical traits are.
Using plant traits from 110 genotypes representing 11 Festuca rubra populations grown in 4 different climates, we studied trait covariation among structural traits (linked to fitness, resource use, gas exchange, and reproduction) and biochemical traits (linked to photosynthesis, photoprotection, and oxidative stress). We also disentangled the relative role of the climate of origin and the climate of cultivation in the structural ver..., Study species and sampled localities for plant material
In the experiment, we used Festuca rubra ssp. rubra, a widespread perennial grass species that occurs in temperate grasslands in Europe. This species can reproduce both by seeds and clonally by rhizomes. The experimental plants of this species were collected in 2014 from 12 natural localities representing factorially crossed precipitation and temperature gradients corresponding to the SeedClim Grid (Meineri et al. 2014) in Western Norway. This grid represents an independent combination of three levels of mean summer temperature (4 warmest months, 6.5 °C, 8.5 °C and 10.5 °C) with four levels of annual precipitation (600, 1300, 2000 and 2700 mm).
The plant material used in the current study has been collected for previous studies that have set up the experiments and provided data also for this study (Münzbergová et al. 2017). From each locality, at least 40 plants of F. rubra (at least 1 m apart) were collected in the growing season...,