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Mandrioli M, Poggi GM, Cai G, Faleri C, Maccaferri M, Tuberosa R, Aloisi I, Toschi TG, Corneti S. Lipids and Fatty Acid Composition Reveal Differences between Durum Wheat Landraces and Modern Cultivars. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 13:1817. [PMID: 38999657 PMCID: PMC11244281 DOI: 10.3390/plants13131817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2024] [Revised: 06/28/2024] [Accepted: 06/29/2024] [Indexed: 07/14/2024]
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Durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. ssp. durum) landraces, traditional local varieties representing an intermediate stage in domestication, are gaining attention due to their high genetic variability and performance in challenging environments. While major kernel metabolites have been examined, limited research has been conducted on minor bioactive components like lipids, despite their nutritional benefits. To address this, we analyzed twenty-two tetraploid accessions, comprising modern elite cultivars and landraces, to (i) verify if the selection process for yield-related traits carried out during the Green Revolution has influenced lipid amount and composition; (ii) uncover the extent of lipid compositional variability, giving evidence that lipid fingerprinting effectively identifies evolutionary signatures; and (iii) identify genotypes interesting for breeding programs to improve yield and nutrition. Interestingly, total fat did not correlate with kernel weight, indicating lipid composition as a promising trait for selection. Tri- and di-acylglycerol were the major lipid components along with free fatty acids, and their relative content varied significantly among genotypes. In particular, landraces belonging to T. turanicum and carthlicum ecotypes differed significantly in total lipid and fatty acid profiles. Our findings provide evidence that landraces can be a genetically relevant source of lipid variability, with potential to be exploited for improving wheat nutritional quality.
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- Mara Mandrioli
- Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences (DISTAL), Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, 40127 Bologna, Italy
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- Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA), Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment, 40128 Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences (DISTAL), Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, 40127 Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences (DISTAL), Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, 40127 Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences (BiGeA), Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences (DISTAL), Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, 40127 Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences (BiGeA), Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy
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Alaux PL, Courty PE, Fréville H, David J, Rocher A, Taschen E. Wheat dwarfing reshapes plant and fungal development in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. MYCORRHIZA 2024; 34:351-360. [PMID: 38816524 DOI: 10.1007/s00572-024-01150-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2023] [Accepted: 04/27/2024] [Indexed: 06/01/2024]
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The introduction of Reduced height (Rht) dwarfing genes into elite wheat varieties has contributed to enhanced yield gain in high input agrosystems by preventing lodging. Yet, how modern selection for dwarfing has affected symbiosis remains poorly documented. In this study, we evaluated the response of both the plant and the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus to plant genetic variation at a major Quantitative Trait Locus called QTL 4B2, known to harbor a Rht dwarfing gene, when forming the symbiosis. We used twelve inbred genotypes derived from a diversity base broadened durum wheat Evolutionary Pre-breeding Population and genotyped with a high-throughput Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) genotyping array. In a microcosm setup segregating roots and the extra-radical mycelium, each wheat genotype was grown with or without the presence of Rhizophagus irregularis. To characterize arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis, we assessed hyphal density, root colonization, spore production, and plant biomass. Additionally, we split the variation of these variables due either to genotypes or to the Rht dwarfing genes alone. The fungus exhibited greater development in the roots of Dwarf plants compared to non-Dwarf plants, showing increases of 27%, 37% and 51% in root colonization, arbuscules, and vesicles, respectively. In addition, the biomass of the extra-radical fungal structures increased by around 31% in Dwarf plants. The biomass of plant roots decreased by about 43% in mycorrhizal Dwarf plants. Interestingly, extraradical hyphal production was found to be partly genetically determined with no significant effect of Rht, as for plant biomasses. In contrast, variations in root colonization, arbuscules and extraradical spore production were explained by Rht dwarfing genes. Finally, when mycorrhizal, Dwarf plants had significantly lower total P content, pointing towards a less beneficial symbiosis for the plant and increased profit for the fungus. These results highlight the effect of Rht dwarfing genes on both root and fungal development. This calls for further research into the molecular mechanisms governing these effects, as well as changes in plant physiology, and their implications for fostering arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in sustainable agrosystems.
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- Pierre-Louis Alaux
- UMR 7205, Institut Systématique Evolution Biodiversité, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, UA, 75005, Paris, France
- Agroécologie, Institut Agro Dijon, CNRS, Université de Bourgogne, INRAE, Dijon, France
- AGAP Institut, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
- UMR Eco & Sols, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, IRD, Place Viala, 34060, Montpellier cedex 2, Montpellier, France
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- AGAP Institut, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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- AGAP Institut, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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- AGAP Institut, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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- UMR Eco & Sols, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, IRD, Place Viala, 34060, Montpellier cedex 2, Montpellier, France.
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Shan Y, Osborne CP. Diversification of quantitative morphological traits in wheat. ANNALS OF BOTANY 2024; 133:413-426. [PMID: 38195097 PMCID: PMC11006538 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcad202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2023] [Accepted: 01/08/2024] [Indexed: 01/11/2024]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS The development and morphology of crop plants have been profoundly altered by evolution under cultivation, initially through unconscious selection, without deliberate foresight, and later by directed breeding. Wild wheats remain an important potential source of variation for modern breeders; however, the sequence and timing of morphological changes during domestication are not fully resolved. METHODS We grew and measured 142 wheat accessions representing different stages in wheat evolution, including three independent domestication events, and compared their morphological traits to define the morphospace of each group. KEY RESULTS The results show that wild and domesticated wheats have overlapping morphospaces, but each also occupies a distinct area of morphospace from one another. Polyploid formation in wheat increased leaf biomass and seed weight but had its largest effects on tiller loss. Domestication continued to increase the sizes of wheat leaves and seeds and made wheat grow taller, with more erect architecture. Associated changes to the biomass of domesticated wheats generated more grains and achieved higher yields. Landrace improvement subsequently decreased the numbers of tillers and spikes, to focus resource allocation to the main stem, accompanied by a thicker main stem and larger flag leaves. During the Green Revolution, wheat height was reduced to increase the harvest index and therefore yield. Modern wheats also have more erect leaves and larger flower biomass proportions than landraces. CONCLUSIONS Quantitative trait history in wheat differs by trait. Some trait values show progressive changes in the same direction (e.g. leaf size, grain weight), whereas others change in a punctuated way at particular stages (e.g. canopy architecture), and other trait values switch directions during wheat evolution (e.g. plant height, flower biomass proportion). Agronomically valued domestication traits arose during different stages of wheat history, such that modern wheats are the product of >10 000 years of morphological evolution.
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- Yixiang Shan
- Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil, School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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- Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil, School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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Abdullaeva Y, Ratering S, Rosado-Porto D, Ambika Manirajan B, Glatt A, Schnell S, Cardinale M. Domestication caused taxonomical and functional shifts in the wheat rhizosphere microbiota, and weakened the natural bacterial biocontrol against fungal pathogens. Microbiol Res 2024; 281:127601. [PMID: 38218094 DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2024.127601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2023] [Revised: 12/14/2023] [Accepted: 01/02/2024] [Indexed: 01/15/2024]
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Modern crops might have lost some of their functional traits, required for interacting with beneficial microbes, as a result of the genotypic/phenotypic modifications that occurred during domestication. Here, we studied the bacterial and fungal microbiota in the rhizosphere of two cultivated wheat species (Triticum aestivum and T. durum) and their respective ancestors (Aegilops tauschii and T. dicoccoides), in three experimental fields, by using metabarcoding of 16S rRNA genes and ITS2, coupled with co-occurrence network analysis. Moreover, the abundance of bacterial genes involved in N- and P-cycles was estimated by quantitative PCR, and urease, alkaline phosphatase and phosphomonoesterase activities were assessed by enzymatic tests. The relationships between microbiota and environmental metadata were tested by correlation analysis. The assemblage of core microbiota was affected by both site and plant species. No significant differences in the abundance of potential fungal pathogens between wild and cultivated wheat species were found; however, co-occurrence analysis showed more bacterial-fungal negative correlations in the wild species. Concerning functions, the nitrogen denitrification nirS gene was consistently more abundant in the rhizosphere of A. tauschii than T. aestivum. Urease activity was higher in the rhizosphere of each wild wheat species in at least two of the research locations. Several microbiota members, including potentially beneficial taxa such as Lysobacter and new taxa such as Blastocatellaceae, were found to be strongly correlated to rhizospheric soil metadata. Our results showed that a functional microbiome shift occurred as a result of wheat domestication. Notably, these changes also included the reduction of the natural biocontrol potential of rhizosphere-associated bacteria against pathogenic fungi, suggesting that domestication disrupted the equilibrium of plant-microbe relationships that had been established during million years of co-evolution.
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- Institute of Applied Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany.
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- Institute of Applied Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany; Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies - DiSTeBA, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy.
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Gómez-Fernández A, Aranda I, Milla R. Early human selection of crops' wild progenitors explains the acquisitive physiology of modern cultivars. NATURE PLANTS 2024; 10:25-36. [PMID: 38172574 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-023-01588-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2023] [Accepted: 11/09/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
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Crops have resource-acquisitive leaf traits, which are usually attributed to the process of domestication. However, early choices of wild plants amenable for domestication may also have played a key role in the evolution of crops' physiological traits. Here we compiled data on 1,034 annual herbs to place the ecophysiological traits of 69 crops' wild progenitors in the context of global botanical variation, and we conducted a common-garden experiment to measure the effects of domestication on crop ecophysiology. Our study found that crops' wild progenitors already had high leaf nitrogen, photosynthesis, conductance and transpiration and soft leaves. After domestication, ecophysiological traits varied little and in idiosyncratic ways. Crops did not surpass the trait boundaries of wild species. Overall, the resource-acquisitive strategy of crops is largely due to the inheritance from their wild progenitors rather than to further breeding improvements. Our study concurs with recent literature highlighting constraints of crop breeding for faster ecophysiological traits.
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- Alicia Gómez-Fernández
- Grupo de investigación en Ecología Evolutiva, Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain.
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- Instituto de Ciencias Forestales, Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
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- Grupo de investigación en Ecología Evolutiva, Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain.
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Lemoine T, Violle C, Montazeaud G, Isaac ME, Rocher A, Fréville H, Fort F. Plant trait relationships are maintained within a major crop species: lack of artificial selection signal and potential for improved agronomic performance. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2023; 240:2227-2238. [PMID: 37771248 DOI: 10.1111/nph.19279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2023] [Accepted: 09/05/2023] [Indexed: 09/30/2023]
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The exploration of phenotypic spaces of large sets of plant species has considerably increased our understanding of diversification processes in the plant kingdom. Nevertheless, such advances have predominantly relied on interspecific comparisons that hold several limitations. Here, we grew in the field a unique set of 179 inbred lines of durum wheat, Triticum turgidum spp. durum, characterized by variable degrees of artificial selection. We measured aboveground and belowground traits as well as agronomic traits to explore the functional and agronomic trait spaces and to investigate trait-to-agronomic performance relationships. We showed that the wheat functional trait space shared commonalities with global cross-species spaces previously described, with two main axes of variation: a root foraging axis and a slow-fast trade-off axis. Moreover, we detected a clear signature of artificial selection on the variation of agronomic traits, unlike functional traits. Interestingly, we identified alternative phenotypic combinations that can optimize crop performance. Our work brings insightful knowledge about the structure of phenotypic spaces of domesticated plants and the maintenance of phenotypic trade-offs in response to artificial selection, with implications for trade-off-free and multi-criteria selection in plant breeding.
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- Taïna Lemoine
- CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, 34000, France
- AGAP, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, 34000, France
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- CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, 34000, France
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, CH-1015, Switzerland
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- Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, M1C 1A4, ON, Canada
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- AGAP, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, 34000, France
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- AGAP, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, 34000, France
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- CEFE, Univ Montpellier, Institut Agro, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, 34000, France
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Wei B, Zhang D, Wang G, Liu Y, Li Q, Zheng Z, Yang G, Peng Y, Niu K, Yang Y. Experimental warming altered plant functional traits and their coordination in a permafrost ecosystem. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2023; 240:1802-1816. [PMID: 37434301 DOI: 10.1111/nph.19115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2023] [Accepted: 06/13/2023] [Indexed: 07/13/2023]
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Knowledge about changes in plant functional traits is valuable for the mechanistic understanding of warming effects on ecosystem functions. However, observations have tended to focus on aboveground plant traits, and there is little information about changes in belowground plant traits or the coordination of above- and belowground traits under climate warming, particularly in permafrost ecosystems. Based on a 7-yr field warming experiment, we measured 26 above- and belowground plant traits of four dominant species, and explored community functional composition and trait networks in response to experimental warming in a permafrost ecosystem on the Tibetan Plateau. Experimental warming shifted community-level functional traits toward more acquisitive values, with earlier green-up, greater plant height, larger leaves, higher photosynthetic resource-use efficiency, thinner roots, and greater specific root length and root nutrient concentrations. However, warming had a negligible effect in terms of functional diversity. In addition, warming shifted hub traits which have the highest centrality in the network from specific root area to leaf area. These results demonstrate that above- and belowground traits exhibit consistent adaptive strategies, with more acquisitive traits in warmer environments. Such changes could provide an adaptive advantage for plants in response to environmental change.
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- Bin Wei
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
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- Department of Ecology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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Gruet C, Alaoui M, Gerin F, Prigent-Combaret C, Börner A, Muller D, Moënne-Loccoz Y. Genomic content of wheat has a higher influence than plant domestication status on the ability to interact with Pseudomonas plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2023; 46:3933-3948. [PMID: 37614118 DOI: 10.1111/pce.14698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2023] [Revised: 07/10/2023] [Accepted: 08/11/2023] [Indexed: 08/25/2023]
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Plant evolutionary history has had profound effects on belowground traits, which is likely to have impacted the ability to interact with microorganisms, but consequences on root colonization and gene expression by plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) remain poorly understood. Here, we tested the hypothesis that wheat genomic content and domestication are key factors determining the capacity for PGPR interaction. Thus, 331 wheat representatives from eight Triticum or Aegilops species were inoculated under standardized conditions with the generalist PGPR Pseudomonas ogarae F113, using an autofluorescent reporter system for monitoring F113 colonization and expression of phl genes coding for the auxinic inducing signal 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol. The interaction with P. ogarae F113 was influenced by ploidy level, presence of genomes AA, BB, DD, and domestication. While root colonization was higher for hexaploid and tetraploid species, and phl expression level higher for hexaploid wheat, the diploid Ae. tauschii displayed higher phl induction rate (i.e., expression:colonisation ratio) on roots. However, a better potential of interaction with F113 (i.e., under non-stress gnotobiotic conditions) did not translate, after seed inoculation, into better performance of wheat landraces in non-sterile soil under drought. Overall, results showed that domestication and especially plant genomic content modulate the PGPR interaction potential of wheats.
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- Cécile Gruet
- Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, UMR5557 Ecologie Microbienne, Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, UMR5557 Ecologie Microbienne, Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, UMR5557 Ecologie Microbienne, Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, UMR5557 Ecologie Microbienne, Villeurbanne, France
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- Genebank Department, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Seeland, OT Gatersleben, Germany
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- Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, UMR5557 Ecologie Microbienne, Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, UMR5557 Ecologie Microbienne, Villeurbanne, France
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Lin YP, Chen HW, Yeh PM, Anand SS, Lin J, Li J, Noble T, Nair R, Schafleitner R, Samsononova M, Bishop-von-Wettberg E, Nuzhdin S, Ting CT, Lawn RJ, Lee CR. Demographic history and distinct selection signatures of two domestication genes in mungbean. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2023; 193:1197-1212. [PMID: 37335936 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiad356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2023] [Revised: 05/10/2023] [Accepted: 06/03/2023] [Indexed: 06/21/2023]
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Domestication is the long and complex process underlying the evolution of crops, in which artificial directional selection transformed wild progenitors into the desired form, affecting genomic variation and leaving traces of selection at targeted loci. However, whether genes controlling important domestication traits follow the same evolutionary pattern expected under the standard selective sweep model remains unclear. With whole-genome resequencing of mungbean (Vigna radiata), we investigated this issue by resolving its global demographic history and targeted dissection of the molecular footprints of genes underlying 2 key traits representing different stages of domestication. Mungbean originated in Asia, and the Southeast Asian wild population migrated to Australia about 50 thousand generations ago. Later in Asia, the cultivated form diverged from the wild progenitor. We identified the gene associated with the pod shattering resistance trait, VrMYB26a, with lower expression across cultivars and reduced polymorphism in the promoter region, reflecting a hard selective sweep. On the other hand, the stem determinacy trait was associated with VrDet1. We found that 2 ancient haplotypes of this gene have lower gene expression and exhibited intermediate frequencies in cultivars, consistent with selection favoring independent haplotypes in a soft selective sweep. In mungbean, contrasting signatures of selection were identified from the detailed dissection of 2 important domestication traits. The results suggest complex genetic architecture underlying the seemingly simple process of directional artificial selection and highlight the limitations of genome-scan methods relying on hard selective sweeps.
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- Ya-Ping Lin
- Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
- World Vegetable Center, Tainan 74199, Taiwan
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Institute of Plant Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Australian Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Warwick, Queensland 4370, Australia
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- World Vegetable Center South and Central Asia, ICRISAT Campus, Patancheru, Hyderabad, Telangana 502324, India
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- Mathematical Biology and Bioinformatics Laboratory, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, 19525 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Mathematical Biology and Bioinformatics Laboratory, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, 19525 St. Petersburg, Russia
- Department of Plant and Soil Science and Gund Institute for the Environment, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Life Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- College of Science & Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4814, Australia
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
- Institute of Plant Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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Bacher H, Montagu A, Herrmann I, Walia H, Schwartz N, Peleg Z. Stress-induced deeper rooting introgression enhances wheat yield under terminal drought. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2023; 74:4862-4874. [PMID: 36787201 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erad059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2022] [Accepted: 02/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Water scarcity is the primary environmental constraint affecting wheat growth and production and is increasingly exacerbated due to climatic fluctuation, which jeopardizes future food security. Most breeding efforts to improve wheat yields under drought have focused on above-ground traits. Root traits are closely associated with various drought adaptability mechanisms, but the genetic variation underlying these traits remains untapped, even though it holds tremendous potential for improving crop resilience. Here, we examined this potential by re-introducing ancestral alleles from wild emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccoides) and studied their impact on root architecture diversity under terminal drought stress. We applied an active sensing electrical resistivity tomography approach to compare a wild emmer introgression line (IL20) and its drought-sensitive recurrent parent (Svevo) under field conditions. IL20 exhibited greater root elongation under drought, which resulted in higher root water uptake from deeper soil layers. This advantage initiated at the pseudo-stem stage and increased during the transition to the reproductive stage. The increased water uptake promoted higher gas exchange rates and enhanced grain yield under drought. Overall, we show that this presumably 'lost' drought-induced mechanism of deeper rooting profile can serve as a breeding target to improve wheat productiveness under changing climate.
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- Harel Bacher
- The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
- Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA
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- The Institute of Environmental Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA
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- The Institute of Environmental Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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Pu Z, Zhang R, Wang H, Li Q, Zhang J, Wang XX. Root morphological and physiological traits and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi shape phosphorus-acquisition strategies of 12 vegetable species. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1150832. [PMID: 37223810 PMCID: PMC10202175 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1150832] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2023] [Accepted: 03/13/2023] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Trait plasticity and integration mediate vegetable adaptive strategies. However, it is unclear how patterns of vegetables in root traits influence vegetable adaptation to different phosphorus (P) levels. Nine root traits and six shoot traits were investigated in 12 vegetable species cultivated in a greenhouse with low and high P supplies to identify distinct adaptive mechanisms in relation to P acquisition (40 and 200 P mg kg-1 as KH2PO4). At the low P level, a series of negative correlations among root morphology, exudates and mycorrhizal colonization, and different types of root functional properties (root morphology, exudates and mycorrhizal colonization) respond differently to soil P levels among vegetable species. non-mycorrhizal plants showed relatively stable root traits as compared to solanaceae plants that showed more altered root morphologies and structural traits. At the low P level, the correlation between root traits of vegetable crops was enhanced. It was also found in vegetables that low P supply enhances the correlation of morphological structure while high P supply enhances the root exudation and the correlation between mycorrhizal colonization and root traits. Root exudation combined with root morphology and mycorrhizal symbiosis to observe P acquisition strategies in different root functions. Vegetables respond highly under different P conditions by enhancing the correlation of root traits. Low P supply could significantly improve the direct and indirect ways of mycorrhizal vegetable crops' root traits axis on shoot biomass, and enhance the direct way of non-mycorrhizal vegetable crops' root traits axis and reduce the indirect way of root exudates.
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- Zitian Pu
- State Key Laboratory of North China Crop Improvement and Regulation, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
- Mountain Area Research Institute, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
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- Mountain Area Research Institute, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
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- Mountain Area Research Institute, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
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- College of Horticulture, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
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- Mountain Area Research Institute, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
- Key Laboratory of North China Water-Saving Agriculture of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
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- State Key Laboratory of North China Crop Improvement and Regulation, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
- Mountain Area Research Institute, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
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Gruet C, Abrouk D, Börner A, Muller D, Moënne-Loccoz Y. Wheat genome architecture influences interactions with phytobeneficial microbial functional groups in the rhizosphere. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2023; 46:1018-1032. [PMID: 36494920 DOI: 10.1111/pce.14508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2022] [Revised: 11/29/2022] [Accepted: 12/04/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Wheat has undergone a complex evolutionary history, which led to allopolyploidization and the hexaploid bread wheat Triticum aestivum. However, the significance of wheat genomic architecture for beneficial plant-microbe interactions is poorly understood, especially from a functional standpoint. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that wheat genomic architecture was an overriding factor determining root recruitment of microorganisms with particular plant-beneficial traits. We chose five wheat species representing genomic profiles AA (Triticum urartu), BB {SS} (Aegilops speltoides), DD (Aegilops tauschii), AABB (Triticum dicoccon) and AABBDD (Triticum aestivum) and assessed by quantitative polymerase chain reaction their ability to interact with free-nitrogen fixers, 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate deaminase producers, 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol producers and auxin producers via the phenylpyruvate decarboxylase pathway, in combination with Illumina MiSeq metabarcoding analysis of N fixers (and of the total bacterial community). We found that the abundance of the microbial functional groups could fluctuate according to wheat genomic profile, as did the total bacterial abundance. N fixer diversity and total bacterial diversity were also influenced significantly by wheat genomic profile. Often, rather similar results were obtained for genomes DD (Ae. tauschii) and AABBDD (T. aestivum), pointing for the first time that the D genome could be particularly important for wheat-bacteria interactions.
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- Cécile Gruet
- Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, UMR5557 Ecologie Microbienne, Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, UMR5557 Ecologie Microbienne, Villeurbanne, France
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- Genebank Department, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
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- Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, UMR5557 Ecologie Microbienne, Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, UMR5557 Ecologie Microbienne, Villeurbanne, France
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Impacts of the Green Revolution on Rhizosphere Microbiology Related to Nutrient Acquisition. Appl Microbiol 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/applmicrobiol2040076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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The Green Revolution (GR) involved selective breeding of cereals and the use of high fertilizer inputs with the goal of increasing crop yields to alleviate hunger. As a result of both greater use of inorganic fertilizers and the introduction of semi-dwarf cultivars, grain yield increased globally and hunger was alleviated in certain areas of the world. However, these changes in varietal selection and fertilization regimes have impacted soil fertility and the root-associated microbiome. Higher rates of inorganic fertilizer application resulted in reduced rhizosphere microbial diversity, while semi-dwarf varieties displayed a greater abundance of rhizosphere microbes associated with nitrogen utilization. Ultimately, selection for beneficial aboveground traits during the GR led to healthier belowground traits and nutrient uptake capabilities.
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Serrano-Mejía C, Bello-Bedoy R, Arteaga MC, Castillo GR. Does Domestication Affect Structural and Functional Leaf Epidermal Traits? A Comparison between Wild and Cultivated Mexican Chili Peppers ( Capsicum annuum). PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 11:3062. [PMID: 36432791 PMCID: PMC9692241 DOI: 10.3390/plants11223062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2022] [Revised: 10/07/2022] [Accepted: 10/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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During domestication, lineages diverge phenotypically and genetically from wild relatives, particularly in preferred traits. In addition to evolutionary divergence in selected traits, other fitness-related traits that are unselected may change in concert. For instance, the selection of chili pepper fruits was not intended to change the structure and function of the leaf epidermis. Leaf stomata and trichome densities play a prominent role in regulating stomatal conductance and resistance to herbivores. Here, we assessed whether domestication affected leaf epidermis structure and function in Capsicum annuum. To do this, we compared leaf stomata and trichome densities in six cultivated varieties of Mexican Capsicum annuum and their wild relative. We measured stomatal conductance and resistance to herbivores. Resistance to (defense against) herbivores was measured as variation in the herbivory rate and larvae mortality of Spodoptera frugiperda fed with leaves of wild and cultivated plants. As expected, the different varieties displayed low divergence in stomatal density and conductance. Leaf trichome density was higher in the wild relative, but variation was not correlated with the herbivory rate. In contrast, a higher mortality rate of S. frugiperda larvae was recorded when fed with the wild relative and two varieties than larvae fed with four other varieties. Overall, although domestication did not aim at resistance to herbivores, this evolutionary process produced concerted changes in defensive traits.
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- Carlos Serrano-Mejía
- Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Carretera Ensenada-Tijuana 3917, C.P. Ensenada 22860, Baja California, Mexico
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- Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Carretera Ensenada-Tijuana 3917, C.P. Ensenada 22860, Baja California, Mexico
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- Departamento de Biología de la Conservación, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), Ensenada 22860, Baja California, Mexico
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- Facultad de Negocios Sostenibles, Universidad del Medio Ambiente, San Mateo Acatitlán, Valle de Bravo 51200, Estado de Mexico, Mexico
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Macklin SC, Mariani RO, Young EN, Kish R, Cathline KA, Robertson G, Martin AR. Intraspecific Leaf Trait Variation across and within Five Common Wine Grape Varieties. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 11:2792. [PMID: 36297816 PMCID: PMC9611564 DOI: 10.3390/plants11202792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2022] [Revised: 10/14/2022] [Accepted: 10/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Variability in traits forming the Leaf Economics Spectrum (LES) among and within crop species plays a key role in governing agroecosystem processes. However, studies evaluating the extent, causes, and consequences of within-species variation in LES traits for some of the world's most common crops remain limited. This study quantified variations in nine leaf traits measured across 90 vines of five common wine grape (Vitis vinifera L.) varieties at two growth stages (post-flowering and veraison). Grape traits in these varieties covary along an intraspecific LES, in patterns similar to those documented in wild plants. Across the five varieties evaluated here, high rates of photosynthesis (A) and leaf nitrogen (N) concentrations were coupled with low leaf mass per area (LMA), whereas the opposite suite of traits defined the "resource-conserving end" of this intraspecific LES in grape. Variety identity was the strongest predictor of leaf physiological (A) and morphological traits (i.e., leaf area and leaf mass), whereas leaf chemical traits and LMA were best explained by growth stage. All five varieties expressed greater resource-conserving trait syndromes (i.e., higher LMA, lower N, and lower Amass) later in the growing season. Traits related to leaf hydraulics, including instantaneous water-use efficiency (WUE), were unrelated to LES and other resource capture traits, and were better explained by spatial location. These results highlight the relative contributions of genetic, developmental, and phenotypic factors in structuring trait variation in the five wine grape varieties evaluated here, and point to a key role of domestication in governing trait relationships in the world's crops.
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- Samantha C. Macklin
- Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON M1C 1A4, Canada
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- Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON M1C 1A4, Canada
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- Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON M1C 1A4, Canada
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- Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON M1C 1A4, Canada
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- Horticultural & Environmental Sciences Innovation Centre, Niagara College, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON L0S 1J0, Canada
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- Horticultural & Environmental Sciences Innovation Centre, Niagara College, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON L0S 1J0, Canada
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- Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON M1C 1A4, Canada
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Veeken A, Santos MJ, McGowan S, Davies AL, Schrodt F. Pollen-based reconstruction reveals the impact of the onset of agriculture on plant functional trait composition. Ecol Lett 2022; 25:1937-1951. [PMID: 35816121 PMCID: PMC9544184 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2022] [Revised: 05/17/2022] [Accepted: 05/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The onset of agriculture improved the capacity of ecosystems to produce food, but inadvertently altered other vital ecosystem functions. Plant traits play a central role in determining ecosystem properties, therefore we investigated how the onset of agriculture in Europe changed plant trait composition using 78 pollen records. Using a novel Bayesian approach for reconstructing plant trait composition from pollen records, we provide a robust method that can account for trait variability within pollen types. We estimate an overall four-fold decrease in plant size through agriculture and associated decreases in leaf and seed size. We show an increase in niche space towards the resource-acquisitive end of the leaf economic spectrum. Decreases in leaf phosphorus might have been caused by nutrient depletion through grazing and burning. Our results show that agriculture, from its start, has likely been gradually impacting biogeochemical cycles through altered vegetation composition.
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- Department of Geography, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.,Aquatic Ecology Department, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
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Flores PC, Yoon JS, Kim DY, Seo YW. Transcriptome Analysis of MYB Genes and Patterns of Anthocyanin Accumulation During Seed Development in Wheat. Evol Bioinform Online 2022; 18:11769343221093341. [PMID: 35444404 PMCID: PMC9014723 DOI: 10.1177/11769343221093341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2021] [Accepted: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Plants accumulate key metabolites as a response of biotic/abiotic stress conditions. In seed coats, anthocyanins, carotenoids, and chlorophylls can be found. They have been associated as important antioxidants that affect germination. In wheat, anthocyanins can impart the seed coat color which have been recognized as health-promoting nutrients. Transcription factors act as master regulators of cellular processes. Transcription complexes such as MYB-bHLH-WD40 (MBW) regulate the expression of multiple target genes in various plant species. In this study, the spatiotemporal accumulation of seed coat pigments in different developmental stages (10, 20, 30, and 40 days after pollination) was analyzed using cryo-cuts. Moreover, the accumulation of phenolic, anthocyanin, and chlorophyll contents was quantified, and the expression of flavonoid biosynthetic genes was evaluated. Finally, transcriptome analysis was performed to analyze putative MYB genes related to seed coat color, followed by further characterization of putative genes. TaTCL2, an MYB gene, was cloned and sequenced. It was determined that TaTCL2 contains a SANT domain, which is often present in proteins participating in the response to anthocyanin accumulation. Moreover, TaTCL2 transcript levels were shown to be influenced by anthocyanin accumulation during grain development. Interaction network analysis showed interactions with GL2 (HD-ZIP IV), EGL3 (bHLH), and TTG1 (WD40). The findings of this study elucidate the mechanisms underlying color formation in Triticum aestivum L. seed coats.
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- Ojeong Plant Breeding Research Center, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
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Abdullaeva Y, Ratering S, Ambika Manirajan B, Rosado-Porto D, Schnell S, Cardinale M. Domestication Impacts the Wheat-Associated Microbiota and the Rhizosphere Colonization by Seed- and Soil-Originated Microbiomes, Across Different Fields. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 12:806915. [PMID: 35095978 PMCID: PMC8789879 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.806915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2021] [Accepted: 12/13/2021] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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The seed-transmitted microorganisms and the microbiome of the soil in which the plant grows are major drivers of the rhizosphere microbiome, a crucial component of the plant holobiont. The seed-borne microbiome can be even coevolved with the host plant as a result of adaptation and vertical transmission over generations. The reduced genome diversity and crossing events during domestication might have influenced plant traits that are important for root colonization by seed-borne microbes and also rhizosphere recruitment of microbes from the bulk soil. However, the impact of the breeding on seed-transmitted microbiome composition and the plant ability of microbiome selection from the soil remain unknown. Here, we analyzed both endorhiza and rhizosphere microbiome of two couples of genetically related wild and cultivated wheat species (Aegilops tauschii/Triticum aestivum and T. dicoccoides/T. durum) grown in three locations, using 16S rRNA gene and ITS2 metabarcoding, to assess the relative contribution of seed-borne and soil-derived microbes to the assemblage of the rhizosphere microbiome. We found that more bacterial and fungal ASVs are transmitted from seed to the endosphere of all species compared with the rhizosphere, and these transmitted ASVs were species-specific regardless of location. Only in one location, more microbial seed transmission occurred also in the rhizosphere of A. tauschii compared with other species. Concerning soil-derived microbiome, the most distinct microbial genera occurred in the rhizosphere of A. tauschii compared with other species in all locations. The rhizosphere of genetically connected wheat species was enriched with similar taxa, differently between locations. Our results demonstrate that host plant criteria for soil bank's and seed-originated microbiome recruitment depend on both plants' genotype and availability of microorganisms in a particular environment. This study also provides indications of coevolution between the host plant and its associated microbiome resulting from the vertical transmission of seed-originated taxa.
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- Institute of Applied Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies – DiSTeBA, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
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Gruet C, Muller D, Moënne-Loccoz Y. Significance of the Diversification of Wheat Species for the Assembly and Functioning of the Root-Associated Microbiome. Front Microbiol 2022; 12:782135. [PMID: 35058901 PMCID: PMC8764353 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.782135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2021] [Accepted: 11/30/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Wheat, one of the major crops in the world, has had a complex history that includes genomic hybridizations between Triticum and Aegilops species and several domestication events, which resulted in various wild and domesticated species (especially Triticum aestivum and Triticum durum), many of them still existing today. The large body of information available on wheat-microbe interactions, however, was mostly obtained without considering the importance of wheat evolutionary history and its consequences for wheat microbial ecology. This review addresses our current understanding of the microbiome of wheat root and rhizosphere in light of the information available on pre- and post-domestication wheat history, including differences between wild and domesticated wheats, ancient and modern types of cultivars as well as individual cultivars within a given wheat species. This analysis highlighted two major trends. First, most data deal with the taxonomic diversity rather than the microbial functioning of root-associated wheat microbiota, with so far a bias toward bacteria and mycorrhizal fungi that will progressively attenuate thanks to the inclusion of markers encompassing other micro-eukaryotes and archaea. Second, the comparison of wheat genotypes has mostly focused on the comparison of T. aestivum cultivars, sometimes with little consideration for their particular genetic and physiological traits. It is expected that the development of current sequencing technologies will enable to revisit the diversity of the wheat microbiome. This will provide a renewed opportunity to better understand the significance of wheat evolutionary history, and also to obtain the baseline information needed to develop microbiome-based breeding strategies for sustainable wheat farming.
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- Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de la Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), VetAgro Sup, UMR 5557 Ecologie Microbienne, Villeurbanne, France
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Gómez-Fernández A, Osborne CP, Rees M, Palomino J, Ingala C, Gómez G, Milla R. Disparities among crop species in the evolution of growth rates: the role of distinct origins and domestication histories. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2022; 233:995-1010. [PMID: 34726792 DOI: 10.1111/nph.17840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2021] [Accepted: 10/24/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Growth rates vary widely among plants with different strategies. For crops, evolution under predictable and high-resource environments might favour rapid resource acquisition and growth, but whether this strategy has consistently evolved during domestication and improvement remains unclear. Here we report a comprehensive study of the evolution of growth rates based on comparisons among wild, landrace, and improved accessions of 19 herbaceous crops grown under common conditions. We also examined the underlying growth components and the influence of crop origin and history on growth evolution. Domestication and improvement did not affect growth consistently, that is growth rates increased or decreased or remained unchanged in different crops. Crops selected for fruits increased the physiological component of growth (net assimilation rate), whereas leaf and seed crops showed larger domestication effects on morphology (leaf mass ratio and specific leaf area). Moreover, climate and phylogeny contributed to explaining the effects of domestication and changes in growth. Crop-specific responses to domestication and improvement suggest that selection for high yield has not consistently changed growth rates. The trade-offs between morpho-physiological traits and the distinct origins and histories of crops accounted for the variability in growth changes. These findings have far-reaching implications for our understanding of crop performance and adaptation.
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- Alicia Gómez-Fernández
- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, C/Tulipán s/n, Móstoles, 28933, Spain
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- Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil, School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
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- Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil, School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
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- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, C/Tulipán s/n, Móstoles, 28933, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, C/Tulipán s/n, Móstoles, 28933, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, C/Tulipán s/n, Móstoles, 28933, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, C/Tulipán s/n, Móstoles, 28933, Spain
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Wang X, Zhang J, Wang H, Rengel Z, Li H. Plasticity and co‐variation of root traits govern differential phosphorus acquisition among 20 wheat genotypes. OIKOS 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/oik.08606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Xin‐Xin Wang
- Mountain Area Research Inst., Hebei Agricultural Univ. Baoding PR China
- State Key Laboratory of North China Crop Improvement and Regulation, Hebei Agricultural Univ. Hebei Baoding PR China
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- Mountain Area Research Inst., Hebei Agricultural Univ. Baoding PR China
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- Mountain Area Research Inst., Hebei Agricultural Univ. Baoding PR China
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- Soil Science&Plant Nutrition, UWA School of Agriculture and Environment, The Univ. of Western Australia Perth Australia
- Inst. for Adriatic Crops and Karst Reclamation Split Croatia
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- Inst. of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Beijing PR China
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Bacher H, Zhu F, Gao T, Liu K, Dhatt BK, Awada T, Zhang C, Distelfeld A, Yu H, Peleg Z, Walia H. Wild emmer introgression alters root-to-shoot growth dynamics in durum wheat in response to water stress. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2021; 187:1149-1162. [PMID: 34618034 PMCID: PMC8566259 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiab292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2021] [Accepted: 06/07/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Water deficit during the early vegetative growth stages of wheat (Triticum) can limit shoot growth and ultimately impact grain productivity. Introducing diversity in wheat cultivars to enhance the range of phenotypic responses to water limitations during vegetative growth can provide potential avenues for mitigating subsequent yield losses. We tested this hypothesis in an elite durum wheat background by introducing a series of introgressions from a wild emmer (Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccoides) wheat. Wild emmer populations harbor rich phenotypic diversity for drought-adaptive traits. To determine the effect of these introgressions on vegetative growth under water-limited conditions, we used image-based phenotyping to catalog divergent growth responses to water stress ranging from high plasticity to high stability. One of the introgression lines exhibited a significant shift in root-to-shoot ratio in response to water stress. We characterized this shift by combining genetic analysis and root transcriptome profiling to identify candidate genes (including a root-specific kinase) that may be linked to the root-to-shoot carbon reallocation under water stress. Our results highlight the potential of introducing functional diversity into elite durum wheat for enhancing the range of water stress adaptation.
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- Harel Bacher
- The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
- Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
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- Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
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- School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
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- The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
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Leger EA, Agneray AC, Baughman OW, Brummer EC, Erickson TE, Hufford KM, Kettenring KM. Integrating evolutionary potential and ecological function into agricultural seed production to meet demands for the decade of restoration. Restor Ecol 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/rec.13543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Elizabeth A. Leger
- Department of Biology University of Nevada Reno, 1664 N. Virginia Street, Mail Stop 0314 Reno NV 89557 U.S.A
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- Department of Biology University of Nevada Reno, 1664 N. Virginia Street, Mail Stop 0314 Reno NV 89557 U.S.A
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- The Nature Conservancy Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center 67826‐A Highway 205 Burns OR 97720 U.S.A
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- Plant Breeding Center, Department of Plant Sciences University of California, Davis Davis CA 95616 U.S.A
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- School of Biological Sciences The University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway Crawley Western Australia 6009 Australia
- Kings Park Science, Department of Biodiversity Conservation and Attractions 2 Kattidj Close, Kings Park Western Australia 6005 Australia
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- Department of Ecosystem Science and Management University of Wyoming 1000 E. University Avenue Laramie WY 82071 U.S.A
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- Ecology Center and Department of Watershed Sciences Utah State University Logan UT 84322 U.S.A
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Isaac ME, Nimmo V, Gaudin ACM, Leptin A, Schmidt JE, Kallenbach CM, Martin A, Entz M, Carkner M, Rajcan I, Boyle TD, Lu X. Crop Domestication, Root Trait Syndromes, and Soil Nutrient Acquisition in Organic Agroecosystems: A Systematic Review. FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS 2021. [DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2021.716480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Selecting crops that express certain reproductive, leaf, and root traits has formed detectable, albeit diverse, crop domestication syndromes. However, scientific and informal on-farm research has primarily focused on understanding and managing linkages between only certain domestication traits and yield. There is strong evidence suggesting that functional traits can be used to hypothesize and detect trade-offs, constraints, and synergies among crop yield and other aspects of crop biology and agroecosystem function. Comparisons in the functional traits of crops vs. wild plants has emerged as a critical avenue that has helped inform a better understanding of how plant domestication has reshaped relationships among yield and traits. For instance, recent research has shown domestication has led important economic crops to express extreme functional trait values among plants globally, with potentially major implications for yield stability, nutrient acquisition strategies, and the success of ecological nutrient management. Here, we present an evidence synthesis of domestication effects on crop root functional traits, and their hypothesized impact on nutrient acquisition strategies in organic and low input agroecosystems. Drawing on global trait databases and published datasets, we show detectable shifts in root trait strategies with domestication. Relationships between domestication syndromes in root traits and nutrient acquisition strategies in low input systems underscores the need for a shift in breeding paradigms for organic agriculture. This is increasingly important given efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets of Zero Hunger via resilient agriculture practices such as ecological nutrient management and maintenance of genetic diversity.
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Wipf HML, Coleman-Derr D. Evaluating domestication and ploidy effects on the assembly of the wheat bacterial microbiome. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0248030. [PMID: 33735198 PMCID: PMC7971525 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0248030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2021] [Accepted: 02/17/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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While numerous studies implicate the microbiome in host fitness, contributions of host evolution to microbial recruitment remain largely uncharacterized. Past work has shown that plant polyploidy and domestication can influence plant biotic and abiotic interactions, yet impacts on broader microbiome assembly are still unknown for many crop species. In this study, we utilized three approaches-two field studies and one greenhouse-based experiment-to determine the degree to which patterns in bacterial community assembly in wheat (Triticum sp.) roots and rhizospheres are attributable to the host factors of ploidy level (2n, 4n, 6n) and domestication status (cultivated vs. wild). Profiling belowground bacterial communities with 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing, we analyzed patterns in diversity and composition. From our initial analyses of a subsetted dataset, we observed that host ploidy level was statistically significant in explaining variation in alpha and beta diversity for rhizosphere microbiomes, as well as correlated with distinct phylum-level shifts in composition, in the field. Using a reduced complexity field soil inoculum and controlled greenhouse conditions, we found some evidence suggesting that genomic lineage and ploidy level influence root alpha and beta diversity (p-value<0.05). However, in a follow-up field experiment using an expanded set of Triticum genomes that included both wild and domesticated varieties, we did not find a strong signal for either diploid genome lineages, domestication status, or ploidy level in shaping rhizosphere bacterial communities. Taken together, these results suggest that while host ploidy and domestication may have some minor influence on microbial assembly, these impacts are subtle and difficult to assess in belowground compartments for wheat varieties. By improving our understanding of the degree to which host ploidy and cultivation factors shape the plant microbiome, this research informs perspectives on what key driving forces may underlie microbiome structuring, as well as where future efforts may be best directed towards fortifying plant growth by microbial means. The greatest influence of the host on the wheat microbiome appeared to occur in the rhizosphere compartment, and we suggest that future work focuses on this environment to further characterize how host genomic and phenotypic changes influence plant-microbe communications.
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- Heidi M. L. Wipf
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Plant Gene Expression Center, USDA-ARS, Albany, California, United States of America
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Togashi A, Oikawa S. Leaf productivity and persistence have been improved during soybean (Glycine max) domestication and evolution. JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH 2021; 134:223-233. [PMID: 33576933 DOI: 10.1007/s10265-021-01263-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2020] [Accepted: 01/31/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Artificial and natural selection improved the leaf photosynthetic rate of soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr. subsp. max). This change may be accompanied by unconscious, undesired changes in other leaf traits, such as decreased leaf persistence, if a finite resource was shared by two or more leaf traits-i.e., if they were traded off. We investigated leaf traits related to productivity (leaf photosynthetic rate, leaf nitrogen content, and stomatal conductance) and those related to persistence (leaf lifespan, leaf mass per unit area, and leaf bulk density) in one wild soybean line and three domesticated soybean lines (a landrace, an old cultivar, and a modern cultivar) in a three year experiment. Some leaf trait values increased while others did not change significantly during domestication and evolution. These results indicate that productivity-related leaf traits and persistence-related leaf traits are not negatively correlated. It was also found that the changes in productivity-related leaf traits and persistence-related leaf traits occurred at different times. Our results indicate that the productivity-related leaf traits and the persistence-related leaf traits have been independently selected for in soybean, and that they were not traded off. Combination of high leaf productivity and high leaf persistence would lead to higher lifetime leaf carbon gain and increased soybean yield.
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- Ayaka Togashi
- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, Mito, 310-0056, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, Mito, 310-0056, Japan.
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Cantarel AAM, Allard V, Andrieu B, Barot S, Enjalbert J, Gervaix J, Goldringer I, Pommier T, Saint-Jean S, Le Roux X. Plant functional trait variability and trait syndromes among wheat varieties: the footprint of artificial selection. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2021; 72:1166-1180. [PMID: 33080022 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraa491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2020] [Accepted: 10/19/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Although widely used in ecology, trait-based approaches are seldom used to study agroecosystems. In particular, there is a need to evaluate how functional trait variability among varieties of a crop species compares to the variability among wild plant species and how variety selection can modify trait syndromes. Here, we quantified 18 above- and below-ground functional traits for 57 varieties of common wheat representative of different modern selection histories. We compared trait variability among varieties and among Pooideae species, and analyzed the effect of selection histories on trait values and trait syndromes. For traits under strong selection, trait variability among varieties was less than 10% of the variability observed among Pooideae species. However, for traits not directly selected, such as root N uptake capacity, the variability was up to 75% of the variability among Pooideae species. Ammonium absorption capacity by roots was counter-selected for conventional varieties compared with organic varieties and landraces. Artificial selection also altered some trait syndromes classically reported for Pooideae. Identifying traits that have high or low variability among varieties and characterizing the hidden effects of selection on trait values and syndromes will benefit the selection of varieties to be used especially for lower N input agroecosystems.
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- Amélie A M Cantarel
- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, UMR Ecologie Microbienne, Villeurbanne, France
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- UMR Génétique, Diversité et Ecophysiologie des Céréales, INRAE, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- UMR ECOSYS, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Thieverval-Grignon, France
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- IEES-Paris (CNRS, IRD, UPMC, INRA, UPEC, UP7), UPMC, 4 place Jussieu, cedex 05 Paris, France
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- UMR Génétique Quantitative et Evolution Le Moulon INRAE, CNRS, UPS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, UMR Ecologie Microbienne, Villeurbanne, France
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- UMR Génétique Quantitative et Evolution Le Moulon INRAE, CNRS, UPS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, UMR Ecologie Microbienne, Villeurbanne, France
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- UMR ECOSYS, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Thieverval-Grignon, France
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- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, UMR Ecologie Microbienne, Villeurbanne, France
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Keen I. Foragers or Farmers: Dark Emu and the Controversy over Aboriginal Agriculture. ANTHROPOLOGICAL FORUM 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2020.1861538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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- Ian Keen
- School of Archaeology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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Burgarella C, Berger A, Glémin S, David J, Terrier N, Deu M, Pot D. The Road to Sorghum Domestication: Evidence From Nucleotide Diversity and Gene Expression Patterns. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:666075. [PMID: 34527004 PMCID: PMC8435843 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.666075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2021] [Accepted: 07/20/2021] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Native African cereals (sorghum, millets) ensure food security to millions of low-income people from low fertility and drought-prone regions of Africa and Asia. In spite of their agronomic importance, the genetic bases of their phenotype and adaptations are still not well-understood. Here we focus on Sorghum bicolor, which is the fifth cereal worldwide for grain production and constitutes the staple food for around 500 million people. We leverage transcriptomic resources to address the adaptive consequences of the domestication process. Gene expression and nucleotide variability were analyzed in 11 domesticated and nine wild accessions. We documented a downregulation of expression and a reduction of diversity both in nucleotide polymorphism (30%) and gene expression levels (18%) in domesticated sorghum. These findings at the genome-wide level support the occurrence of a global reduction of diversity during the domestication process, although several genes also showed patterns consistent with the action of selection. Nine hundred and forty-nine genes were significantly differentially expressed between wild and domesticated gene pools. Their functional annotation points to metabolic pathways most likely contributing to the sorghum domestication syndrome, such as photosynthesis and auxin metabolism. Coexpression network analyzes revealed 21 clusters of genes sharing similar expression patterns. Four clusters (totaling 2,449 genes) were significantly enriched in differentially expressed genes between the wild and domesticated pools and two were also enriched in domestication and improvement genes previously identified in sorghum. These findings reinforce the evidence that the combined and intricated effects of the domestication and improvement processes do not only affect the behaviors of a few genes but led to a large rewiring of the transcriptome. Overall, these analyzes pave the way toward the identification of key domestication genes valuable for genetic resources characterization and breeding purposes.
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- Concetta Burgarella
- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, Montpellier, France
- AGAP Institut, Univ F-34398 Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
- *Correspondence: Concetta Burgarella
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- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, Montpellier, France
- AGAP Institut, Univ F-34398 Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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- CNRS, Univ. Rennes, ECOBIO – UMR 6553, Rennes, France
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- AGAP Institut, Univ F-34398 Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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- AGAP Institut, Univ F-34398 Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, Montpellier, France
- AGAP Institut, Univ F-34398 Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, Montpellier, France
- AGAP Institut, Univ F-34398 Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
- David Pot
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Martínez-Romero E, Aguirre-Noyola JL, Taco-Taype N, Martínez-Romero J, Zuñiga-Dávila D. Plant microbiota modified by plant domestication. Syst Appl Microbiol 2020; 43:126106. [PMID: 32847781 DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2020.126106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2020] [Revised: 06/19/2020] [Accepted: 06/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Human life became largely dependent on agricultural products after distinct crop-domestication events occurred around 10,000 years ago in different geographical sites. Domestication selected suitable plants for human agricultural practices with unexpected consequences on plant microbiota, which has notable effects on plant growth and health. Among other traits, domestication has changed root architecture, exudation, or defense responses that could have modified plant microbiota. Here we present the comparison of reported data on the microbiota from widely consumed cereals and legumes and their ancestors showing that different bacteria were found in domesticated and wild plant microbiomes in some cases. Considering the large variability in plant microbiota, adequate sampling efforts and function-based approaches are needed to further support differences between the microbiota from wild and domesticated plants. The study of wild plant microbiomes could provide a valuable resource of unexploited beneficial bacteria for crops.
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- Laboratorio de Ecología Microbiana, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Lima, Peru
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- Laboratorio de Ecología Microbiana, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Lima, Peru
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Domestication-driven changes in plant traits associated with changes in the assembly of the rhizosphere microbiota in tetraploid wheat. Sci Rep 2020; 10:12234. [PMID: 32699344 PMCID: PMC7376052 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-69175-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2020] [Accepted: 07/08/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Despite the large morphological and physiological changes that plants have undergone through domestication, little is known about their impact on their microbiome. Here we characterized rhizospheric bacterial and fungal communities as well as the abundance of N-cycling microbial guilds across thirty-nine accessions of tetraploid wheat, Triticum turgidum, from four domestication groups ranging from the wild subspecies to the semi dwarf elite cultivars. We identified several microbial phylotypes displaying significant variation in their relative abundance depending on the wheat domestication group with a stronger impact of domestication on fungi. The relative abundance of potential fungal plant pathogens belonging to the Sordariomycetes class decreased in domesticated compared to wild emmer while the opposite was found for members of the Glomeromycetes, which are obligate plant symbionts. The depletion of nitrifiers and of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in elite wheat cultivars compared to primitive domesticated forms suggests that the Green Revolution has decreased the coupling between plant and rhizosphere microbes that are potentially important for plant nutrient availability. Both plant diameter and fine root percentage exhibited the highest number of associations with microbial taxa, highlighting their putative role in shaping the rhizosphere microbiota during domestication. Aside from domestication, significant variation of bacterial and fungal community composition was found among accessions within each domestication group. In particular, the relative abundances of Ophiostomataceae and of Rhizobiales were strongly dependent on the host accession, with heritability estimates of ~ 27% and ~ 25%, indicating that there might be room for genetic improvement via introgression of ancestral plant rhizosphere-beneficial microbe associations.
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Montazeaud G, Rousset F, Fort F, Violle C, Fréville H, Gandon S. Farming plant cooperation in crops. Proc Biol Sci 2020; 287:20191290. [PMID: 31964305 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Selection of the fittest can promote individual competitiveness but often results in the erosion of group performance. Recently, several authors revisited this idea in crop production and proposed new practices based on selection for cooperative phenotypes, i.e. phenotypes that increase crop yield through decreased competitiveness. These recommendations, however, remain difficult to evaluate without a formal description of crop evolutionary dynamics under different selection strategies. Here, we develop a theoretical framework to investigate the evolution of cooperation-related traits in crops, using plant height as a case study. Our model is tailored to realistic agricultural practices and shows that combining high plant density, high relatedness and selection among groups favours the evolution of shorter plants that maximize grain yield. Our model allows us to revisit past and current breeding practices in light of kin selection theory, and yields practical recommendations to increase cooperation among crops and promote sustainable agriculture.
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- Germain Montazeaud
- AGAP, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France.,CEFE, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier SupAgro, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France
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- ISEM, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
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- CEFE, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier SupAgro, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France
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- CEFE, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France
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- AGAP, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France
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- CEFE, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France
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Damián X, Ochoa-López S, Gaxiola A, Fornoni J, Domínguez CA, Boege K. Natural selection acting on integrated phenotypes: covariance among functional leaf traits increases plant fitness. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2020; 225:546-557. [PMID: 31403698 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2019] [Accepted: 08/05/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Plant functional strategies are usually accomplished through the simultaneous expression of different traits, and hence their correlations should be promoted by natural selection. The adaptive value of correlations among leaf functional traits, however, has not been assessed in natural populations. We estimated intraspecific variation in leaf functional traits related to the primary metabolism and anti-herbivore defence in a population of Turnera velutina. We analysed whether natural selection favoured the expression of individual traits, particular combinations of traits or leaf phenotypic integration. Patterns of covariation among traits were related to water and nitrogen economy, and were similar among genotypes, but the magnitude of their phenotypic integration differed by 10-fold. Although families did not differ in the mean values of leaf functional traits, directional selection favoured low nitrogen content and low chemical defence, high content of chlorophyll, sugar in extrafloral nectar and trichome density. Families with higher phenotypic integration among leaf traits grew faster and produced more flowers. We suggest that the coordinated expression of leaf traits has an adaptive value, probably related to optimisation in the expression of traits related to water conservation and nitrogen acquisition.
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- Xóchitl Damián
- Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, AP 70-275, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, 04510, CDMX, México
- Posgrado en Ciencias Biológicas, Unidad de Posgrado Edificio A, 1º Piso, Circuito de Posgrados, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, 04510, CDMX, Mexico
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- Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, AP 70-275, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, 04510, CDMX, México
- Posgrado en Ciencias Biológicas, Unidad de Posgrado Edificio A, 1º Piso, Circuito de Posgrados, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, 04510, CDMX, Mexico
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- Departamento de Ecología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda, 340, Santiago, Chile
- Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad, Santiago, 7800003, Chile
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- Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, AP 70-275, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, 04510, CDMX, México
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- Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, AP 70-275, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, 04510, CDMX, México
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- Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, AP 70-275, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, 04510, CDMX, México
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Accumulating crop functional trait data with citizen science. Sci Rep 2019; 9:15715. [PMID: 31673016 PMCID: PMC6823441 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-51927-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2019] [Accepted: 10/10/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Trait-based ecology is greatly informed by large datasets for the analyses of inter- and intraspecific trait variation (ITV) in plants. This is especially true in trait-based agricultural research where crop ITV is high, yet crop trait data remains limited. Based on farmer-led collections, we developed and evaluated the first citizen science plant trait initiative. Here we generated a dataset of eight leaf traits for a commercially important crop species (Daucus carota), sampled from two distinct regions in Canada, which is 25-fold larger than datasets available in existing trait databases. Citizen-collected trait data supported analyses addressing theoretical and applied questions related to (i) intraspecific trait dimensionality, (ii) the extent and drivers of ITV, and (iii) the sampling intensity needed to derive accurate trait values. Citizen science is a viable means to enhance functional trait data coverage across terrestrial ecosystems, and in doing so, can directly support theoretical and applied trait-based analyses of plants.
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Chacón‐Labella J, García Palacios P, Matesanz S, Schöb C, Milla R. Plant domestication disrupts biodiversity effects across major crop types. Ecol Lett 2019; 22:1472-1482. [PMID: 31270929 PMCID: PMC7163516 DOI: 10.1111/ele.13336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2019] [Revised: 04/08/2019] [Accepted: 06/12/2019] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Plant diversity fosters productivity in natural ecosystems. Biodiversity effects might increase agricultural yields at no cost in additional inputs. However, the effects of diversity on crop assemblages are inconsistent, probably because crops and wild plants differ in a range of traits relevant to plant-plant interactions. We tested whether domestication has changed the potential of crop mixtures to over-yield by comparing the performance and traits of major crop species and those of their wild progenitors under varying levels of diversity. We found stronger biodiversity effects in mixtures of wild progenitors, due to larger selection effects. Variation in selection effects was partly explained by within-mixture differences in leaf size. Our results indicate that domestication might disrupt the ability of crops to benefit from diverse neighbourhoods via reduced trait variance. These results highlight potential limitations of current crop mixtures to over-yield and the potential of breeding to re-establish variance and increase mixture performance.
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- Julia Chacón‐Labella
- Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. C/ Tulipán s/n. Móstoles C.P. 28933MadridSpain
- Department of Environmental Systems ScienceSwiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zürich8092ZürichSwitzerland
- Department of Environment and AgronomyINIA, Avda. A Coruña km 7.5, C.P. 28040MadridSpain
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- Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. C/ Tulipán s/n. Móstoles C.P. 28933MadridSpain
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- Department of Environmental Systems ScienceSwiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zürich8092ZürichSwitzerland
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- Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. C/ Tulipán s/n. Móstoles C.P. 28933MadridSpain
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Hughes A, Oliveira HR, Fradgley N, Corke FMK, Cockram J, Doonan JH, Nibau C. μCT trait analysis reveals morphometric differences between domesticated temperate small grain cereals and their wild relatives. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2019; 99:98-111. [PMID: 30868647 PMCID: PMC6618119 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2018] [Revised: 02/22/2019] [Accepted: 03/05/2019] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Wheat and barley are two of the founder crops domesticated in the Fertile Crescent, and currently represent crops of major economic importance in temperate regions. Due to impacts on yield, quality and end-use, grain morphometric traits remain an important goal for modern breeding programmes and are believed to have been selected for by human populations. To directly and accurately assess the three-dimensional (3D) characteristics of grains, we combine X-ray microcomputed tomography (μCT) imaging techniques with bespoke image analysis tools and mathematical modelling to investigate how grain size and shape vary across wild and domesticated wheat and barley. We find that grain depth and, to a lesser extent, width are major drivers of shape change and that these traits are still relatively plastic in modern bread wheat varieties. Significant changes in grain depth are also observed to be associated with differences in ploidy. Finally, we present a model that can accurately predict the wild or domesticated status of a grain from a given taxa based on the relationship between three morphometric parameters (length, width and depth) and suggest its general applicability to both archaeological identification studies and breeding programmes.
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- Aoife Hughes
- The National Plant Phenomics CentreInstitute of Biological, Rural and Environmental Sciences (IBERS)Aberystwyth UniversityGogerddan, AberystwythSY23 3EEUK
- Present address:
Computational and Systems Biology and Crop GeneticsJohn Innes CentreNorwichNR4 7 UHUK
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- School of Earth and Environmental SciencesManchester Institute of BiotechnologyUniversity of ManchesterManchesterM1 7DNUK
- Present address:
Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour (ICArEHB)Faculdade das Ciências Humanas e SociaisUniversidade do AlgarveCampus de GambelasFaro8005‐139Portugal
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- John Bingham LaboratoryNIABHuntingdon RoadCambridgeCB3 0LEUK
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- The National Plant Phenomics CentreInstitute of Biological, Rural and Environmental Sciences (IBERS)Aberystwyth UniversityGogerddan, AberystwythSY23 3EEUK
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- John Bingham LaboratoryNIABHuntingdon RoadCambridgeCB3 0LEUK
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- The National Plant Phenomics CentreInstitute of Biological, Rural and Environmental Sciences (IBERS)Aberystwyth UniversityGogerddan, AberystwythSY23 3EEUK
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- The National Plant Phenomics CentreInstitute of Biological, Rural and Environmental Sciences (IBERS)Aberystwyth UniversityGogerddan, AberystwythSY23 3EEUK
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A V VB, Baresel JP, Weedon O, Finckh MR. Effects of ten years organic and conventional farming on early seedling traits of evolving winter wheat composite cross populations. Sci Rep 2019; 9:9053. [PMID: 31227728 PMCID: PMC6588703 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-45300-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2018] [Accepted: 06/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Early vigour traits of wheat composite cross populations (CCPs) based on high yielding (Y) or high quality (Q) or Y*Q varietal intercross evolving under organic or conventional conditions in parallel populations were studied hydroponically. To eliminate storage and year effects, frozen F6, F10, F11 and F15 seeds were multiplied in one field, resulting in the respective Fx.1 generations. This eliminated generation and growing system effects on seed size for the F6.1 F10.1 and F15.1. Due to a severe winter kill affecting the F11, the generation effect persisted, leading to larger seeds and markedly different seedling traits in the F11.1 compared to the F10.1 and F15.1. Seedling traits were similar among parallel populations. Shoot length and weight increased in both systems until the F11.1 across farming systems and remained constant thereafter. Over time, seminal root length and root weight of organic CCPs increased and total- and specific- root length decreased significantly compared to the conventional CCPs. Rooting patterns under organic conditions suggests better ability to reach deeper soil nutrients. In both systems, Q and YQ CCPs were more vigorous than Y CCPs, confirming genetic differences among populations. Overall, heterogeneous populations appear very plastic and selection pressure was stronger in organic systems.
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- Vijaya Bhaskar A V
- Crops, Environment & Land Use Programme, Crops Research Centre Oak Park, Teagasc, Carlow, R93 XE12, Ireland.
- University of Kassel, Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, Department of Ecological Plant Protection, Nordbahnhofstr. 1a, Witzenhausen, D-37213, Germany.
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- Technical University Munich, Institute for Plant Nutrition, Center of Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan, Freising, 85354, Germany
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- University of Kassel, Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, Department of Ecological Plant Protection, Nordbahnhofstr. 1a, Witzenhausen, D-37213, Germany
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- University of Kassel, Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, Department of Ecological Plant Protection, Nordbahnhofstr. 1a, Witzenhausen, D-37213, Germany
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Hayes FJ, Buchanan SW, Coleman B, Gordon AM, Reich PB, Thevathasan NV, Wright IJ, Martin AR. Intraspecific variation in soy across the leaf economics spectrum. ANNALS OF BOTANY 2019; 123:107-120. [PMID: 30107396 PMCID: PMC6344108 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcy147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2018] [Accepted: 07/14/2018] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Background and Aims Intraspecific trait variation (ITV) is an important dimension of plant ecological diversity, particularly in agroecosystems, where phenotypic ITV (within crop genotypes) is an important correlate of key agroecosystem processes including yield. There are few studies that have evaluated whether plants of the same genotype vary along well-defined axes of biological variation, such as the leaf economics spectrum (LES). There is even less information disentangling environmental and ontogenetic determinants of crop ITV along an intraspecific LES, and whether or not a plant's position along an intraspecific LES is correlated with reproductive output. Methods We sought to capture the extent of phenotypic ITV within a single cultivar of soy (Glycine max) - the world's most commonly cultivated legume - using a data set of nine leaf traits measured on 402 leaves, sampled from 134 plants in both agroforestry and monoculture management systems, across three distinct whole-plant ontogenetic stages (while holding leaf age and canopy position stable). Key Results Leaf traits covaried strongly along an intraspecific LES, in patterns that were largely statistically indistinguishable from the 'universal LES' observed across non-domesticated plants. Whole-plant ontogenetic stage explained the highest proportion of phenotypic ITV in LES traits, with plants progressively expressing more 'resource-conservative' LES syndromes throughout development. Within ontogenetic stages, leaf traits differed systematically across management systems, with plants growing in monoculture expressing more 'resource-conservative' trait syndromes: trends largely owing to an approximately ≥50% increases in leaf mass per area (LMA) in high-light monoculture vs. shaded agroforestry systems. Certain traits, particularly LMA, leaf area and maximum photosynthetic rates, correlated closely with plant-level reproductive output. Conclusions Phenotypic ITV in soy is governed by constraints in trait trade-offs along an intraspecific LES, which in turn (1) underpins plant responses to managed environmental gradients, and (2) reflects shifts in plant functional biology and resource allocation that occur throughout whole-plant ontogeny.
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- Fallon J Hayes
- Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada
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- Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, USA
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada
- Centre for Critical Development Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada
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Martín‐Robles N, Morente‐López J, Freschet GT, Poorter H, Roumet C, Milla R. Root traits of herbaceous crops: Pre‐adaptation to cultivation or evolution under domestication? Funct Ecol 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Nieves Martín‐Robles
- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Área de Biodiversidad y Conservación, Escuela Superior de Ciencias Experimentales y Tecnología Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Móstoles Spain
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- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Área de Biodiversidad y Conservación, Escuela Superior de Ciencias Experimentales y Tecnología Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Móstoles Spain
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- CEFE, CNRS, EPHE, IRD Université de Montpellier, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 Montpellier France
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- Plant Sciences (IBG‐2) Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Jülich Germany
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- CEFE, CNRS, EPHE, IRD Université de Montpellier, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 Montpellier France
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- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Área de Biodiversidad y Conservación, Escuela Superior de Ciencias Experimentales y Tecnología Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Móstoles Spain
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Martin AR, Hale CE, Cerabolini BEL, Cornelissen JHC, Craine J, Gough WA, Kattge J, Tirona CKF. Inter- and intraspecific variation in leaf economic traits in wheat and maize. AOB PLANTS 2018; 10:ply006. [PMID: 29484152 PMCID: PMC5814918 DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/ply006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2017] [Accepted: 01/22/2018] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Leaf Economics Spectrum (LES) trait variation underpins multiple agroecological processes and many prominent crop yield models. While there are numerous independent studies assessing trait variation in crops, to date there have been no comprehensive assessments of intraspecific trait variation (ITV) in LES traits for wheat and maize: the world's most widespread crops. Using trait databases and peer-reviewed literature, we compiled over 700 records of specific leaf area (SLA), maximum photosynthetic rates (Amax) and leaf nitrogen (N) concentrations, for wheat and maize. We evaluated intraspecific LES trait variation, and intraspecific trait-environment relationships. While wheat and maize occupy the upper 90th percentile of LES trait values observed across a global species pool, ITV ranged widely across the LES in wheat and maize. Fertilization treatments had strong impacts on leaf N, while plant developmental stage (here standardized as the number of days since planting) had strong impacts on Amax; days since planting, N fertilization and irrigation all influenced SLA. When controlling for these factors, intraspecific responses to temperature and precipitation explained 39.4 and 43.7 % of the variation in Amax and SLA, respectively, but only 5.4 % of the variation in leaf N. Despite a long history of domestication in these species, ITV in wheat and maize among and within cultivars remains large. Intraspecific trait variation is a critical consideration to refine regional to global models of agroecosystem structure, function and food security. Considerable opportunities and benefits exist for consolidating a crop trait database for a wider range of domesticated plant species.
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- Adam R Martin
- Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Canada
- Centre for Critical Development Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
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- Systems Ecology, Department of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan, The Netherlands
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- Jonah Ventures, Manhattan, 1908 Bluehills Road, KS, USA
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- Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Canada
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- Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll Straβe, Jena, Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Canada
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Martin AR, Isaac ME. Functional traits in agroecology: Advancing description and prediction in agroecosystems. J Appl Ecol 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Adam R. Martin
- Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences; and the Centre for Critical Development of Toronto Scarborough; Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences; and the Centre for Critical Development of Toronto Scarborough; Toronto Ontario Canada
- Department of Geography; University of Toronto; Toronto Ontario Canada
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