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Overview

Jon Ågren is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden and focuses their academic research on fields including Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science.

Their work spans several subfields, particularly Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Molecular Biology. The primary research topics involve Plant and Animal Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Plant Reproductive Biology, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals.

Jon Ågren has contributed to multiple recent scholarly papers, among which are:

  • What Do We Really Know About Adaptation at Range Edges? (2020, Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics)
  • Evolvability and trait function predict phenotypic divergence of plant populations (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Evolution of floral scent in relation to self-incompatibility and capacity for autonomous self-pollination in the perennial herb Arabis alpina (2021, Annals of Botany)
  • A large-effect fitness trade-off across environments is explained by a single mutation affecting cold acclimation (2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Climate drives rhizosphere microbiome variation and divergent selection between geographically distant Arabidopsis populations (2022, New Phytologist)

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Evolution, Molecular Ecology, Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Collaborations form an important facet of their research, with frequent coauthors including Thomas James Ellis, Christopher G. Oakley, John McKay, Nina Sletvold, and Per Toräng.

Best Publications

  • Rapid Regulation of Light Harvesting and Plant Fitness in the Field

    Carsten Külheim;Jon Ågren;Stefan Jansson

  • Population Size, Pollinator Limitation, and Seed Set in the Self‐ Incompatible Herb Lythrum Salicaria

    Jon Agren

  • POLLINATION SUCCESS IN A DECEPTIVE ORCHID IS ENHANCED BY CO-OCCURRING REWARDING MAGNET PLANTS

    Steven D. Johnson;Craig I. Peter;L. Anders Nilsson;Jon Ågren

  • The scale of population structure in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Alexander Platt;Matthew Horton;Yu S. Huang;Yan Li

  • Reciprocal transplants demonstrate strong adaptive differentiation of the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana in its native range

    Jon Ågren;Douglas W. Schemske

  • Outcrossing rate and inbreeding depression in two annual monoecious herbs, Begonia hirsuta and B. semiovata

    Jon Ågren;Douglas W. Schemske

  • Latitudinal population differentiation in phenology, life history and flower morphology in the perennial herb Lythrum salicaria

    Katarina Olsson;Jon Ågren

  • Root microbiota assembly and adaptive differentiation among European Arabidopsis populations.

    Thorsten Thiergart;Paloma Durán;Thomas Ellis;Nathan Vannier

  • Variation in trichome density and resistance against a specialist insect herbivore in natural populations of Arabidopsis thaliana

    Richard Handley;Barbara Ekbom;Jon Ågren

  • Leaf Trichome Formation and Plant Resistance to Herbivory

    Peter Dalin;Jon Ågren;Christer Björkman;Piritta Huttunen

  • Sexual Differences in Biomass and Nutrient Allocation in the Dioecious Rubus Chamaemorus

    Jon Agren

  • Genetic mapping of adaptation reveals fitness tradeoffs in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Jon Ågren;Christopher G. Oakley;John K. McKay;John T. Lovell

  • Associational resistance: insect damage to purple loosestrife reduced in thickets of sweet gale.

    Peter A. Hambäck;Jon Ågren;Lars Ericson

  • The Cost of Defense Against Herbivores: An Experimental Study of Trichome Production in Brassica rapa

    Jon Agren;Douglas W. Schemske

  • Age and size structure of Pinus sylvestris populations on mires in central and northern Sweden

    Jon Agren;Olle Zackrisson

  • Pollinator visitation, stigmatic pollen loads and among-population variation in seed set in Lythrum salicaria

    Anna R. Waites;Jon Ågren

  • The effects of nectar addition on pollen removal and geitonogamy in the non-rewarding orchid Anacamptis morio.

    Steven D. Johnson;Craig I. Peter;Jon Agren

  • Pollinator-mediated selection on floral display and flowering time in the perennial herb Arabidopsis lyrata.

    Saskia Sandring;Jon Ågren

  • Pollinator shifts and the evolution of spur length in the moth-pollinated orchid Platanthera bifolia

    Elin Boberg;Ronny Alexandersson;Magdalena Jonsson;Johanne Maad

  • Pollinator-mediated selection on floral display, spur length and flowering phenology in the deceptive orchid Dactylorhiza lapponica

    Nina Sletvold;John M. Grindeland;Jon Ågren

  • Sexual Dimorphism and Biotic Interactions

    Jon Ågren;Kjell Danell;Thomas Elmqvist;Lars Ericson

Frequent Co-Authors

Nina Sletvold
Nina Sletvold Uppsala University
Douglas W. Schemske
Douglas W. Schemske Michigan State University
Johan Ehrlén
Johan Ehrlén Stockholm University
George Coupland
George Coupland Max Planck Society
Steven D. Johnson
Steven D. Johnson University of KwaZulu-Natal
Lars Ericson
Lars Ericson Umeå University
Outi Savolainen
Outi Savolainen University of Oulu
Roberto Bassi
Roberto Bassi University of Verona
Stefan Jansson
Stefan Jansson Umeå University
Bengt Hansson
Bengt Hansson Lund University

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