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cc/NUMBER 21 This Week’s Citation CIassic~ MAY 21,1984 [ Bradshaw A D. Evolutionary significance of phenotypic plasticity in plants. Advan. Genet. 13:115-55, 1965. [Dept. Agricultural Botany, Univ. College North Wales, Bangor, Wales and Dept. Agronomy, Univ. California, Davis, CA] ___________________________________ The abilities of different components of the I was excited to find differences between phenotype of an organism to be modified by populations 100 m apart, and we had just be- the environment are effectively indepen- gun to find differences in populations only dent characters, under genetic control. As a 5-10 m apart, which was very exciting. result, specific forms of phenotypic plastici- “But in all this work I could not help being ty can be selected for or against in relation struck by the fact that although the genetic to particular environmental situations. [The differences we found, measured under com- Sd® indicates that this paper has been cited mon environmental conditions,were consid- in over 160 publications since 1965.] erable, the differences that occurred in the field, that we found on collection, were far greater. It seemed that in concentrating on the genetic component of adaptation we Anthony D. Bradshaw were all forgetting about the phenotypic, en- Department of Botany