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Schroeder H, Salzberg A, Grab H, Crowther S, Hale C, Poveda K. Agricultural landscape simplification affects wild plant reproduction indirectly through herbivore-mediated changes in floral display. Sci Rep 2024; 14:14293. [PMID: 38906942 PMCID: PMC11192729 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-65352-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2024] [Accepted: 06/19/2024] [Indexed: 06/23/2024] Open
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As natural landscapes are modified and converted into simplified agricultural landscapes, the community composition and interactions of organisms persisting in these modified landscapes are altered. While many studies examine the consequences of these changing interactions for crops, few have evaluated the effects on wild plants. Here, we examine how pollinator and herbivore interactions affect reproductive success for wild resident and phytometer plants at sites along a landscape gradient ranging from natural to highly simplified. We tested the direct and indirect effects of landscape composition on plant traits and reproduction mediated by insect interactions. For phytometer plants exposed to herbivores, we found that greater landscape complexity corresponded with elevated herbivore damage, which reduced total flower production but increased individual flower size. Though larger flowers increased pollination, the reduction in flowers ultimately reduced plant reproductive success. Herbivory was also higher in complex landscapes for resident plants, but overall damage was low and therefore did not have a cascading effect on floral display and reproduction. This work highlights that landscape composition directly affects patterns of herbivory with cascading effects on pollination and wild plant reproduction. Further, the absence of an effect on reproduction for resident plants suggests that they may be adapted to their local insect community.
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- Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- School of Integrative Plant Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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Bose S, Banerjee S, Kumar S, Saha A, Nandy D, Hazra S. Review of applications of artificial intelligence (AI) methods in crop research. J Appl Genet 2024; 65:225-240. [PMID: 38216788 DOI: 10.1007/s13353-023-00826-z] [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: 08/13/2023] [Revised: 12/23/2023] [Accepted: 12/26/2023] [Indexed: 01/14/2024]
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Sophisticated and modern crop improvement techniques can bridge the gap for feeding the ever-increasing population. Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines, which refers to the application of computational algorithms, machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) techniques. This is aimed to generalise patterns and relationships from historical data, employing various mathematical optimisation techniques thus making prediction models for facilitating selection of superior genotypes. These techniques are less resource intensive and can solve the problem based on the analysis of large-scale phenotypic datasets. ML for genomic selection (GS) uses high-throughput genotyping technologies to gather genetic information on a large number of markers across the genome. The prediction of GS models is based on the mathematical relation between genotypic and phenotypic data from the training population. ML techniques have emerged as powerful tools for genome editing through analysing large-scale genomic data and facilitating the development of accurate prediction models. Precise phenotyping is a prerequisite to advance crop breeding for solving agricultural production-related issues. ML algorithms can solve this problem through generating predictive models, based on the analysis of large-scale phenotypic datasets. DL models also have the potential reliability of precise phenotyping. This review provides a comprehensive overview on various ML and DL models, their applications, potential to enhance the efficiency, specificity and safety towards advanced crop improvement protocols such as genomic selection, genome editing, along with phenotypic prediction to promote accelerated breeding.
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- Suvojit Bose
- Department of Vegetables and Spice Crops, Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Pundibari, Cooch Behar, 736165, West Bengal, India
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- School of Agricultural Sciences, JIS University, Kolkata, 700109, West Bengal, India
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- School of Agricultural Sciences, JIS University, Kolkata, 700109, West Bengal, India
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- School of Agricultural Sciences, JIS University, Kolkata, 700109, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Agriculture, Brainware University, Barasat, 700125, West Bengal, India.
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Santangelo JS, Battlay P, Hendrickson BT, Kuo WH, Olsen KM, Kooyers NJ, Johnson MTJ, Hodgins KA, Ness RW. Haplotype-Resolved, Chromosome-Level Assembly of White Clover (Trifolium repens L., Fabaceae). Genome Biol Evol 2023; 15:evad146. [PMID: 37542471 PMCID: PMC10433932 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evad146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2023] [Revised: 07/24/2023] [Accepted: 07/29/2023] [Indexed: 08/07/2023] Open
Abstract
White clover (Trifolium repens L.; Fabaceae) is an important forage and cover crop in agricultural pastures around the world and is increasingly used in evolutionary ecology and genetics to understand the genetic basis of adaptation. Historically, improvements in white clover breeding practices and assessments of genetic variation in nature have been hampered by a lack of high-quality genomic resources for this species, owing in part to its high heterozygosity and allotetraploid hybrid origin. Here, we use PacBio HiFi and chromosome conformation capture (Omni-C) technologies to generate a chromosome-level, haplotype-resolved genome assembly for white clover totaling 998 Mbp (scaffold N50 = 59.3 Mbp) and 1 Gbp (scaffold N50 = 58.6 Mbp) for haplotypes 1 and 2, respectively, with each haplotype arranged into 16 chromosomes (8 per subgenome). We additionally provide a functionally annotated haploid mapping assembly (968 Mbp, scaffold N50 = 59.9 Mbp), which drastically improves on the existing reference assembly in both contiguity and assembly accuracy. We annotated 78,174 protein-coding genes, resulting in protein BUSCO completeness scores of 99.6% and 99.3% against the embryophyta_odb10 and fabales_odb10 lineage datasets, respectively.
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- James S Santangelo
- Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Ssali F, Sheil D. Seasonality in the equatorial tropics: Flower, fruit, and leaf phenology of montane trees in the highlands of Southwest Uganda. Biotropica 2023. [DOI: 10.1111/btp.13219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/30/2023]
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Albano LJ, Johnson MTJ. Interactions between environmental factors drive selection on cyanogenesis in
Trifolium repens. OIKOS 2023. [DOI: 10.1111/oik.09629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- Lucas J. Albano
- Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of Toronto Toronto ON Canada
- Dept of Biology, Univ. of Toronto Mississauga Mississauga ON Canada
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Herbivory, plant traits and nectar chemistry interact to affect the community of insect visitors and pollination in common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca. Oecologia 2023; 201:91-105. [PMID: 36456875 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-022-05290-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2022] [Accepted: 11/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Herbivory can alter plant fitness directly through changing reproductive allocation and indirectly through changing pollinator identity or behavior. Common milkweed is a plant of conservation concern with an inducible chemical defense that is also an important nectar resource. In this study, we aim to understand how herbivory severity and plant traits, including morphology and nectar chemistry, interact to affect insect visitation and pod production in common milkweed. We conducted pollinator watches on plants with experimentally varied herbivory severity and quantified insect frequency and visit length as a response to nectar chemistry, ramet height, number of inflorescences, number of flowers per inflorescence and percent tissue removed. We also quantified pollinator effectiveness and importance. Increased herbivory severity reduced floral displays, including fewer inflorescences and fewer flowers per inflorescence. A reduced floral display was correlated with reduced sucrose, fructose and glucose and resulted in a reduced number and species richness of insect visitors. Fewer flowers per inflorescence reduced the frequency of bumble bee and fly visitors, which were two important pollinators. Although honeybees, flies, small bees, soldier beetles and bumble bees were equally effective pollinators, only bumble bee frequency was positively correlated with pod production. The differences in pollinator visitation have the potential to create diversifying selection on plant floral traits, many of which are also affected by herbivores. This research demonstrates potentially conflicting selection pressures between native and non-native pollinators as well as non-native herbivores.
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Cardel YJ, Koptur S. Locations of seed abortion in response to defoliation differ with pollen source in a native perennial legume herb. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2022; 109:1730-1740. [PMID: 36088615 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.16055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2022] [Revised: 06/10/2022] [Accepted: 06/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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PREMISE In many flowering plants, flowers contain more ovules than fruits have seeds. What determines which ovules become seeds? When photosynthates are limited, as may happen when plants lose leaf area to herbivory, fewer fertilized ovules become seeds. METHODS Greenhouse-grown ramets of distinct individuals of a perennial herbaceous legume were manually defoliated to various levels determined in the field, then self- or cross-pollinated. For each seed produced, we recorded its position in the fruit and its mass. From a subset of seeds from different treatments and positions in the fruits, we grew seedlings and measured their dry mass. RESULTS Ovules were aborted more frequently in fruits from flowers that were self-pollinated and from those on plants with higher levels of defoliation. Ovules in the basal portion of the fruits were more likely to be aborted than those at the stigmatic end; this pattern was most pronounced for fruits after self-pollination with high levels of defoliation. Total number of seeds produced and seed mass per pod were greatest in cross-pollinated fruits after no or low levels of defoliation. Mean individual seed mass was greater for fruits with fewer seeds, indicating a trade-off between seed number and seed mass. Seedling dry mass (a measure of vigor) was greatest for seeds in the middle positions of fruit produced by cross-pollination after severe herbivory; no positional differences were seen for seeds from self-pollinated fruits. CONCLUSIONS Observed locations of seed abortion may have been selected not only by defoliation, but in part by propensity for dispersal, while positional differences in seedling vigor may be related to seed size and differential maternal allocation based on pollination treatment and leaf area lost.
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- Yuria J Cardel
- Department of Biological Sciences, Institute of the Environment, International Center for Tropical Botany, Florida International University, University Park, Miami, FL, 33199, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Institute of the Environment, International Center for Tropical Botany, Florida International University, University Park, Miami, FL, 33199, USA
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Huang L, Liu Y, Dou L, Pan S, Li Z, Zhang J, Li J. Mutualist- and antagonist-mediated selection contribute to trait diversification of flowers. PeerJ 2022; 10:e14107. [PMID: 36196403 PMCID: PMC9527018 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.14107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2022] [Accepted: 09/01/2022] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
Abstract
Flowers are generally short-lived, and they all face a multidimensional challenge because they have to attract mutualists, compel them to vector pollen with minimal investment in rewards, and repel floral enemies during this short time window. Their displays are under complex selection, either consistent or conflicting, to maximize reproductive fitness under heterogeneous environments. The phenological or morphological mismatches between flowers and visitors will influence interspecific competition, resource access, mating success and, ultimately, population and community dynamics. To better understand the effects of the plant visitors on floral traits, it is necessary to determine the functional significance of specific floral traits for the visitors; how plants respond to both mutualists and antagonists through adaptive changes; and to evaluate the net fitness effects of biological mutualisms and antagonism on plants. In this review, we bring together insights from fields as diverse as floral biology, insect behavioral responses, and evolutionary biology to explain the processes and patterns of floral diversity evolution. Then, we discuss the ecological significance of plant responses to mutualists and antagonists from a community perspective, and propose a set of research questions that can guide the research field to integrate studies of plant defense and reproduction.
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- Luyao Huang
- Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China
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- Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China
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- Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China
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- Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China
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- Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China
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- Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China
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Villamil N, Sommervogel B, Pannell JR. Disentangling the effects of jasmonate and tissue loss on the sex allocation of an annual plant. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:812558. [PMID: 36119626 PMCID: PMC9478112 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.812558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2021] [Accepted: 07/11/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Selection through pollinators plays a major role in the evolution of reproductive traits. However, herbivory can also induce changes in plant sexual expression and sexual systems, potentially influencing conditions governing transitions between sexual systems. Previous work has shown that herbivory has a strong effect on sex allocation in the wind-pollinated annual plant Mercurialis annua, likely via responses to resource loss. It is also known that many plants respond to herbivory by inducing signaling, and endogenous responses to it, via the plant hormone jasmonate. Here, we attempt to uncouple the effects of herbivory on sex allocation in M. annua through resource limitation (tissue loss) versus plant responses to jasmonate hormone signaling. We used a two-factorial experiment with four treatment combinations: control, herbivory (25% chronic tissue loss), jasmonate, and combined herbivory and jasmonate. We estimated the effects of tissue loss and defense-inducing hormones on reproductive allocation, male reproductive effort, and sex allocation. Tissue loss caused plants to reduce their male reproductive effort, resulting in changes in total sex allocation. However, application of jasmonate after herbivory reversed its effect on male investment. Our results show that herbivory has consequences on plant sex expression and sex allocation, and that defense-related hormones such as jasmonate can buffer the impacts. We discuss the physiological mechanisms that might underpin the effects of herbivory on sex allocation, and their potential implications for the evolution of plant sexual systems.
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Innes SG, Santangelo JS, Kooyers NJ, Olsen KM, Johnson MTJ. Evolution in response to climate in the native and introduced ranges of a globally distributed plant. Evolution 2022; 76:1495-1511. [PMID: 35589013 DOI: 10.1111/evo.14514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2020] [Revised: 03/23/2022] [Accepted: 04/04/2022] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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The extent to which species can adapt to spatiotemporal climatic variation in their native and introduced ranges remains unresolved. To address this, we examined how clines in cyanogenesis (hydrogen cyanide [HCN] production-an antiherbivore defense associated with decreased tolerance to freezing) have shifted in response to climatic variation in space and time over a 60-year period in both the native and introduced ranges of Trifolium repens. HCN production is a polymorphic trait controlled by variation at two Mendelian loci (Ac and Li). Using phenotypic assays, we estimated within-population frequencies of HCN production and dominant alleles at both loci (i.e., Ac and Li) from 10,575 plants sampled from 131 populations on five continents, and then compared these frequencies to those from historical data collected in the 1950s. There were no clear relationships between changes in the frequency of HCN production, Ac, or Li and changes in temperature between contemporary and historical samples. We did detect evidence of continued evolution to temperature gradients in the introduced range, whereby the slope of contemporary clines for HCN and Ac in relation to winter temperature became steeper than historical clines and more similar to native clines. These results suggest that cyanogenesis clines show no clear changes through time in response to global warming, but introduced populations continue to adapt to their contemporary environments.
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- Simon G Innes
- Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, L5L 1C6, Canada.,Department of Biology, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana, 70504
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- Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, L5L 1C6, Canada
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- Department of Biology, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana, 70504
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, 63130
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- Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, L5L 1C6, Canada
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McPeek SJ, Bronstein JL, McPeek MA. Eco-evolutionary feedbacks among pollinators, herbivores, and their plant resources. Evolution 2022; 76:1287-1300. [PMID: 35420697 PMCID: PMC9321553 DOI: 10.1111/evo.14492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2022] [Revised: 03/19/2022] [Accepted: 03/23/2022] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
Abstract
Eco-evolutionary feedbacks among multiple species occur when one species affects another species' evolution via its effects on the abundance and traits of a shared partner species. What happens if those two species enact opposing effects on their shared partner's population growth? Furthermore, what if those two kinds of interactions involve separate traits? For example, many plants produce distinct suites of traits that attract pollinators (mutualists) and deter herbivores (antagonists). Here, we develop a model to explore how pollinators and herbivores may influence each other's interactions with a shared plant species via evolutionary effects on the plant's nectar and toxin traits. The model results predict that herbivores indirectly select for the evolution of increased nectar production by suppressing plant population growth. The model also predicts that pollinators indirectly select for the evolution of increased toxin production by plants and increased counterdefenses by herbivores via their positive effects on plant population growth. Unless toxins directly affect pollinator foraging, plants always evolve increases in attraction and defense traits when they interact with both kinds of foragers. This work highlights the value of incorporating ecological dynamics to understand the entangled evolution of mutualisms and antagonisms in natural communities.
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- Sarah J. McPeek
- Department of BiologyUniversity of VirginiaCharlottesvilleVA22904USA
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of ArizonaTucsonAZ85721USA
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- Department of Biological SciencesDartmouth CollegeHanoverNH03755USA
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De-la-Cruz IM, Batsleer F, Bonte D, Diller C, Hytönen T, Muola A, Osorio S, Posé D, Vandegehuchte ML, Stenberg JA. Evolutionary Ecology of Plant-Arthropod Interactions in Light of the "Omics" Sciences: A Broad Guide. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:808427. [PMID: 35548276 PMCID: PMC9084618 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.808427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2021] [Accepted: 04/01/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
Aboveground plant-arthropod interactions are typically complex, involving herbivores, predators, pollinators, and various other guilds that can strongly affect plant fitness, directly or indirectly, and individually, synergistically, or antagonistically. However, little is known about how ongoing natural selection by these interacting guilds shapes the evolution of plants, i.e., how they affect the differential survival and reproduction of genotypes due to differences in phenotypes in an environment. Recent technological advances, including next-generation sequencing, metabolomics, and gene-editing technologies along with traditional experimental approaches (e.g., quantitative genetics experiments), have enabled far more comprehensive exploration of the genes and traits involved in complex ecological interactions. Connecting different levels of biological organization (genes to communities) will enhance the understanding of evolutionary interactions in complex communities, but this requires a multidisciplinary approach. Here, we review traditional and modern methods and concepts, then highlight future avenues for studying the evolution of plant-arthropod interactions (e.g., plant-herbivore-pollinator interactions). Besides promoting a fundamental understanding of plant-associated arthropod communities' genetic background and evolution, such knowledge can also help address many current global environmental challenges.
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- Ivan M. De-la-Cruz
- Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
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- Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, Viikki Plant Science Centre, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- NIAB EMR, West Malling, United Kingdom
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- Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
- Biodiversity Unit, University of Turku, Finland
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular y Bioquímica, Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea “La Mayora”, Universidad de Málaga-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Campus de Teatinos, Málaga, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular y Bioquímica, Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea “La Mayora”, Universidad de Málaga-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Campus de Teatinos, Málaga, Spain
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- Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
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Sakata Y, Ueyama S. Different effects of two exotic herbivores on the pollinator‐mediated effect of an exotic plant on a native plant. POPUL ECOL 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/1438-390x.12125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Yuzu Sakata
- Department of Biological Environment Akita Prefectural University Akita Japan
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- Department of Biological Environment Akita Prefectural University Akita Japan
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Villamil N, Li X, Seddon E, Pannell JR. Simulated herbivory enhances leaky sex expression in the dioecious herb Mercurialis annua. ANNALS OF BOTANY 2022; 129:79-86. [PMID: 34668537 PMCID: PMC8829902 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcab129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2021] [Accepted: 10/01/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND AIMS Plant reproductive traits are widely understood to be responsive to the selective pressures exerted by pollinators, but there is also increasing evidence for an important role for antagonists such as herbivores in shaping these traits. Many dioecious species show leaky sex expression, with males and females occasionally producing flowers of the opposite sex. Here, we asked to what extent leakiness in sex expression in Mercurialis annua (Euphorbiaceae) might also be plastically responsive to simulated herbivory. This is important because enhanced leakiness in dioecious populations could lead to a shift in both the mating system and in the conditions for transitions between combined and separate sexes. METHODS We examined the effect of simulated herbivory on the sexual expression of males and females of M. annua in two experiments in which different levels of simulated herbivory led to enhanced leakiness in both sexes. KEY RESULTS We showed that leaky sex expression in both males and females of the wind-pollinated dioecious herb M. annua is enhanced in response to simulated herbivory, increasing the probability for and the degree of leakiness in both sexes. We also found that leakiness was greater in larger females but not in larger males. CONCLUSIONS We discuss hypotheses for a possible functional link between herbivory and leaky sex expression, and consider what simulated herbivory-induced leakiness might imply for the evolutionary ecology of plant reproductive systems, especially the breakdown of dioecy and the evolution of hermaphroditism.
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- Nora Villamil
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Vegetation Ecologist, NatureServe, Boulder, CO 80301, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
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Egan PA, Muola A, Parachnowitsch AL, Stenberg JA. Pollinators and herbivores interactively shape selection on strawberry defence and attraction. Evol Lett 2021; 5:636-643. [PMID: 34917402 PMCID: PMC8645195 DOI: 10.1002/evl3.262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2020] [Revised: 09/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Tripartite interactions between plants, herbivores, and pollinators hold fitness consequences for most angiosperms. However, little is known on how plants evolve in response-and in particular what the net selective outcomes are for traits of shared relevance to pollinators and herbivores. In this study, we manipulated herbivory ("presence" and "absence" treatments) and pollination ("open" and "hand pollination" treatments) in a full factorial common-garden experiment with woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca L.). This design allowed us to quantify the relative importance and interactive effects of herbivore- and pollinator-mediated selection on nine traits related to plant defence and attraction. Our results showed that pollinators imposed stronger selection than herbivores on traits related to both direct and indirect (i.e., tritrophic) defence. However, conflicting selection was imposed on inflorescence density: a trait that appears to be shared by herbivores and pollinators as a host plant signal. However, in all cases, selection imposed by one agent depended largely on the presence or ecological effect of the other, suggesting that dynamic patterns of selection could be a common outcome of these interactions in natural populations. As a whole, our findings highlight the significance of plant-herbivore-pollinator interactions as potential drivers of evolutionary change, and reveal that pollinators likely play an underappreciated role as selective agents on direct and in direct plant defence.
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- Paul A. Egan
- Department of Plant Protection BiologySwedish University of Agricultural SciencesAlnarpSE‐23053Sweden
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- Department of Plant Protection BiologySwedish University of Agricultural SciencesAlnarpSE‐23053Sweden
- Biodiversity UnitUniversity of TurkuTurku20014Finland
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- Department of BiologyUniversity of New BrunswickFrederictonNBE3B 5A3Canada
- Department of Plant Ecology and Evolution, Evolutionary Biology CentreUppsala UniversityUppsalaSE‐75236Sweden
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- Department of Plant Protection BiologySwedish University of Agricultural SciencesAlnarpSE‐23053Sweden
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Wu Y, Barrett SCH, Duan X, Zhang J, Cha Y, Tu C, Li Q. Herbivore-Mediated Selection on Floral Display Covaries Nonlinearly With Plant-Antagonistic Interaction Intensity Among Primrose Populations. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:727957. [PMID: 34868113 PMCID: PMC8636000 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.727957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2021] [Accepted: 10/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Quantifying the relations between plant-antagonistic interactions and natural selection among populations is important for predicting how spatial variation in ecological interactions drive adaptive differentiation. Here, we investigate the relations between the opportunity for selection, herbivore-mediated selection, and the intensity of plant-herbivore interaction among 11 populations of the insect-pollinated plant Primula florindae over 2 years. We experimentally quantified herbivore-mediated directional selection on three floral traits (two display and one phenological) within populations and found evidence for herbivore-mediated selection for a later flowering start date and a greater number of flowers per plant. The opportunity for selection and strength of herbivore-mediated selection on number of flowers varied nonlinearly with the intensity of herbivory among populations. These parameters increased and then decreased with increasing intensity of plant-herbivore interactions, defined as an increase in the ratio of herbivore-damaged flowers per individual. Our results provide novel insights into how plant-antagonistic interactions can shape spatial variation in selection on floral traits and contribute toward understanding the mechanistic basis of geographic variation in angiosperm flowers.
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- Yun Wu
- School of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environment, Xihua University, Chengdu, China
- Yunnan Key Laboratory of Plant Reproductive Adaptation and Evolutionary Ecology, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
- Laboratory of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- College of Landscape Architecture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory of Plant Reproductive Adaptation and Evolutionary Ecology, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
- Laboratory of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory of Plant Reproductive Adaptation and Evolutionary Ecology, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
- Laboratory of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory of Plant Reproductive Adaptation and Evolutionary Ecology, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
- Laboratory of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory of Plant Reproductive Adaptation and Evolutionary Ecology, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
- Laboratory of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
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López-Goldar X, Agrawal AA. Ecological Interactions, Environmental Gradients, and Gene Flow in Local Adaptation. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 26:796-809. [PMID: 33865704 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2021.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Revised: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 03/16/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Despite long-standing interest in local adaptation of plants to their biotic and abiotic environment, existing theory, and many case studies, little work to date has addressed within-species evolution of concerted strategies and how these might contrast with patterns across species. Here we consider the interactions between pollinators, herbivores, and resource availability in shaping plant local adaptation, how these interactions impact plant phenotypes and gene flow, and the conditions where multiple traits align along major environmental gradients such as latitude and elevation. Continued work in emerging model systems will benefit from the melding of classic experimental approaches with novel population genetic analyses to reveal patterns and processes in plant local adaptation.
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- Xosé López-Goldar
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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Ramos SE, Schiestl FP. Herbivory and pollination impact on the evolution of herbivore-induced plasticity in defense and floral traits. Evol Lett 2020; 4:556-569. [PMID: 33312690 PMCID: PMC7719550 DOI: 10.1002/evl3.200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2019] [Revised: 07/22/2020] [Accepted: 10/04/2020] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Theory predicts that herbivory should primarily determine the evolution of herbivore‐induced plasticity in plant defenses, but little is known about the influence of other interactions such as pollination. Pollinators may exert negative selection on the herbivore‐induced plasticity of chemical defenses when floral signals and rewards are indirectly affected, provoking deterrent effects on these mutualists. We investigated the influence of constant herbivory and pollination on the evolved patterns and degree of herbivore‐induced plasticity in chemical plant defenses and floral morphometry and volatiles in fast‐cycling Brassica rapa plants. To do this, we used plants from an evolution experiment that had evolved under bee/hand pollination and herbivory manipulated in a 2 × 2 factorial design during six generations, producing four selection treatments. We grew sibling plant pairs from each of the four selection treatments of the last generation and infested one group with herbivores and left the other uninfested. Herbivore‐induced plasticity was analyzed within‐ and between‐selection treatments. We found support for the hypothesis that constant herbivory favors the evolution of higher constitutive yet lower herbivore‐induced plasticity in defenses. However, this only occurred in plants that evolved under hand pollination and constant herbivory. Bee pollination had a strong influence on the evolution of herbivore‐induced plasticity of all traits studied. Plants that evolved under bee pollination, with and without constant herbivory, showed remarkably similar patterns of herbivore‐induced plasticity in their defense‐ and floral traits and had a higher number of plastic responses compared to plants with hand pollination. Such patterns support the hypothesis that bee pollination influenced the evolution of herbivore‐induced plasticity, most likely via indirect effects, such as links between defense‐ and floral traits. We conclude that interactions other than herbivory, such as pollination, may impact herbivore‐induced plasticity, through indirect effects and metabolic trade‐offs, when it contributes to trait evolution in plants.
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- Sergio E Ramos
- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany University of Zurich Zurich CH-8008 Switzerland.,Current Address: Department of Biological Sciences University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany University of Zurich Zurich CH-8008 Switzerland
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Santangelo JS, Rivkin LR, Advenard C, Thompson KA. Multivariate phenotypic divergence along an urbanization gradient. Biol Lett 2020; 16:20200511. [PMID: 32991825 PMCID: PMC7532719 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2020.0511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2020] [Accepted: 09/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Evidence suggests that natural populations can evolve to better tolerate the novel environmental conditions associated with urban areas. Studies of adaptive divergence in urban areas often examine one or a few traits at a time from populations residing only at the most extreme urban and nonurban habitats. Thus, whether urbanization drives divergence in many traits simultaneously in a manner that varies with the degree of urbanization remains unclear. To address this gap, we generated seed families of white clover (Trifolium repens) collected from 27 populations along an urbanization gradient in Toronto, Canada, grew them in a common garden, and measured 14 phenotypic traits. Families from urban sites had evolved later phenology and germination, larger flowers, thinner stolons, reduced cyanogenesis, greater biomass and greater seed set. Pollinator observations revealed near-complete turnover of pollinator morphological groups along the urbanization gradient, which may explain some of the observed divergences in floral traits and phenology. Our results suggest that adaptation to urban environments involves multiple traits.
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- James S. Santangelo
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaM5S 3B2
- Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, Ontario, CanadaL5L 1C6
- Centre for Urban Environments, University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, Ontario, CanadaL5L 1C6
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaM5S 3B2
- Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, Ontario, CanadaL5L 1C6
- Centre for Urban Environments, University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, Ontario, CanadaL5L 1C6
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- Department of Zoology & Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4
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Haas SM, Lortie CJ. A systematic review of the direct and indirect effects of herbivory on plant reproduction mediated by pollination. PeerJ 2020; 8:e9049. [PMID: 32551190 PMCID: PMC7289145 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2019] [Accepted: 04/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Plant reproduction is influenced by the net outcome of plant-herbivore and plant-pollinator interactions. While both herbivore impacts and pollinator impacts on plant reproduction have been widely studied, few studies examine them in concert. METHODOLOGY Here, we review the contemporary literature that examines the net outcomes of herbivory and pollination on plant reproduction and the impacts of herbivores on pollination through damage to shared host plants using systematic review tools. The direct or indirect effects of herbivores on floral tissue and reported mechanisms were compiled including the taxonomic breadth of herbivores, plants and pollinators. RESULTS A total of 4,304 studies were examined producing 59 relevant studies for synthesis that reported both pollinator and herbivore measures. A total of 49% of studies examined the impact of direct damage to floral tissue through partial florivory while 36% of studies also examined the impact of vegetative damage on pollination through folivory, root herbivory, and stem damage. Only three studies examined the effects of both direct and indirect damage to pollination outcomes within the same study. CONCLUSIONS It is not unreasonable to assume that plants often sustain simultaneous forms of damage to different tissues and that the net effects can be assessed through differences in reproductive output. Further research that controls for other relative drivers of reproductive output but examines more than one pathway of damage simultaneously will inform our understanding of the mechanistic relevance of herbivore impacts on pollination and also highlight interactions between herbivores and pollinators through plants. It is clear that herbivory can impact plant fitness through pollination; however, the relative importance of direct and indirect damage to floral tissue on plant reproduction is still largely unknown.
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- Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
- The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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Santangelo JS, Thompson KA, Cohan B, Syed J, Ness RW, Johnson MTJ. Predicting the strength of urban-rural clines in a Mendelian polymorphism along a latitudinal gradient. Evol Lett 2020; 4:212-225. [PMID: 32547782 PMCID: PMC7293085 DOI: 10.1002/evl3.163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2019] [Revised: 12/19/2019] [Accepted: 02/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Cities are emerging as models for addressing the fundamental question of whether populations evolve in parallel to similar environments. Here, we examine the environmental factors that drive the evolution of parallel urban‐rural clines in a Mendelian trait—the cyanogenic antiherbivore defense of white clover (Trifolium repens). Previous work suggested urban‐rural gradients in frost and snow depth could drive the evolution of reduced hydrogen cyanide (HCN) frequencies in urban populations. Here, we sampled over 700 urban and rural clover populations across 16 cities along a latitudinal transect in eastern North America. In each population, we quantified changes in the frequency of genotypes that produce HCN, and in a subset of the cities we estimated the frequency of the alleles at the two genes (CYP79D15 and Li) that epistatically interact to produce HCN. We then tested the hypothesis that cold climatic conditions are necessary for the evolution of cyanogenesis clines by comparing the strength of clines among cities located along a latitudinal gradient of winter temperature and frost exposure. Overall, half of the cities exhibited urban‐rural clines in the frequency of HCN, whereby urban populations evolved lower HCN frequencies. Clines did not evolve in cities with the lowest temperatures and greatest snowfall, supporting the hypothesis that snow buffers plants against winter frost and constrains the formation of clines. By contrast, the strongest clines occurred in the warmest cities where snow and frost are rare, suggesting that alternative selective agents are maintaining clines in warmer cities. Some clines were driven by evolution at only CYP79D15, consistent with stronger and more consistent selection on this locus than on Li. Together, our results demonstrate that urban environments often select for similar phenotypes, but different selective agents and targets underlie the evolutionary response in different cities.
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- James S Santangelo
- Department of Biology University of Toronto Mississauga Mississauga ON L5L 1C6 Canada.,Centre for Urban Environments University of Toronto Mississauga Mississauga ON L5L 1C6 Canada.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Toronto Toronto ON M5S 3B2 Canada
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- Department of Zoology and Biodiversity Research Centre University of British Columbia Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
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- Department of Biology University of Toronto Mississauga Mississauga ON L5L 1C6 Canada
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- Department of Biology University of Toronto Mississauga Mississauga ON L5L 1C6 Canada
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- Department of Biology University of Toronto Mississauga Mississauga ON L5L 1C6 Canada.,Centre for Urban Environments University of Toronto Mississauga Mississauga ON L5L 1C6 Canada.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Toronto Toronto ON M5S 3B2 Canada
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- Department of Biology University of Toronto Mississauga Mississauga ON L5L 1C6 Canada.,Centre for Urban Environments University of Toronto Mississauga Mississauga ON L5L 1C6 Canada.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Toronto Toronto ON M5S 3B2 Canada
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Rebolleda-Gómez M, Wood CW. Unclear Intentions: Eavesdropping in Microbial and Plant Systems. Front Ecol Evol 2019. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Is there spatial variation in phenotypic selection on floral traits in a generalist plant–pollinator system? Evol Ecol 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s10682-019-10002-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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- Jon Ågren
- Department of Ecology and Genetics, Evolutionary Biology Centre (EBC), Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
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Ma X, Zhu K, Guan H, Feng J, Yu S, Liu G. Calculation Method for Phenotypic Traits Based on the 3D Reconstruction of Maize Canopies. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2019; 19:E1201. [PMID: 30857269 PMCID: PMC6427596 DOI: 10.3390/s19051201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2019] [Revised: 03/04/2019] [Accepted: 03/05/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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A reasonable plant type is an essential factor for improving canopy structure, ensuring a reasonable expansion of the leaf area index and obtaining a high-quality spatial distribution of light. It is of great significance in promoting effective selection of the ecological breeding index and production practices for maize. In this study, a method for calculating the phenotypic traits of the maize canopy in three-dimensional (3D) space was proposed, focusing on the problems existing in traditional measurement methods in maize morphological structure research, such as their complex procedures and relatively large error margins. Specifically, the whole maize plant was first scanned with a FastSCAN hand-held scanner to obtain 3D point cloud data for maize. Subsequently, the raw point clouds were simplified by the grid method, and the effect of noise on the quality of the point clouds in maize canopies was further denoised by bilateral filtering. In the last step, the 3D structure of the maize canopy was reconstructed. In accordance with the 3D reconstruction of the maize canopy, the phenotypic traits of the maize canopy, such as plant height, stem diameter and canopy breadth, were calculated by means of a fitting sphere and a fitting cylinder. Thereafter, multiple regression analysis was carried out, focusing on the calculated data and the actual measured data to verify the accuracy of the calculation method proposed in this study. The corresponding results showed that the calculated values of plant height, stem diameter and plant width based on 3D scanning were highly correlated with the actual measured data, and the determinant coefficients R² were 0.9807, 0.8907 and 0.9562, respectively. In summary, the method proposed in this study can accurately measure the phenotypic traits of maize. Significantly, these research findings provide technical support for further research on the phenotypic traits of other crops and on variety breeding.
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- Xiaodan Ma
- College of electrical and information, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing 163319, China.
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- College of electrical and information, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing 163319, China.
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- College of electrical and information, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing 163319, China.
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- College of electrical and information, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing 163319, China.
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- Agronomy College of Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing 163319, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Modern Precision Agriculture System Integration Research, Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China.
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