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Pastierovič F, Kalyniukova A, Hradecký J, Dvořák O, Vítámvás J, Mogilicherla K, Tomášková I. Biochemical Responses in Populus tremula: Defending against Sucking and Leaf-Chewing Insect Herbivores. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 13:1243. [PMID: 38732458 PMCID: PMC11085190 DOI: 10.3390/plants13091243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2024] [Revised: 04/24/2024] [Accepted: 04/26/2024] [Indexed: 05/13/2024]
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The main biochemical traits were estimated in poplar leaves under biotic attack (aphids and spongy moth infestation). Changes in the abundance of bioactive compounds in genetically uniform individuals of European aspen (Populus tremula), such as proline, polyphenolic compounds, chlorophylls a and b, and volatile compounds, were determined between leaves damaged by sucking insects (aphid-Chaitophorus nassonowi) and chewing insects (spongy moth-Lymantria dispar) compared to uninfected leaves. Among the nine analyzed phenolic compounds, only catechin and procyanidin showed significant differences between the control leaves and leaves affected by spongy moths or aphids. GC-TOF-MS volatile metabolome analysis showed the clear separation of the control versus aphids-infested and moth-infested leaves. In total, the compounds that proved to have the highest explanatory power for aphid-infested leaves were 3-hexenal and 5-methyl-2-furanone, and for moth-infested leaves, trans-α-farnesene and 4-cyanocyclohexane. The aphid-infested leaves contained around half the amount of chlorophylls and twice the amount of proline compared to uninfected leaves, and these results evidenced that aphids influence plant physiology more than chewing insects.
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- Filip Pastierovič
- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, Suchdol, 165 00 Praha, Czech Republic; (A.K.); (J.H.); (O.D.); (J.V.); or (K.M.); (I.T.)
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, Suchdol, 165 00 Praha, Czech Republic; (A.K.); (J.H.); (O.D.); (J.V.); or (K.M.); (I.T.)
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, Suchdol, 165 00 Praha, Czech Republic; (A.K.); (J.H.); (O.D.); (J.V.); or (K.M.); (I.T.)
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, Suchdol, 165 00 Praha, Czech Republic; (A.K.); (J.H.); (O.D.); (J.V.); or (K.M.); (I.T.)
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, Suchdol, 165 00 Praha, Czech Republic; (A.K.); (J.H.); (O.D.); (J.V.); or (K.M.); (I.T.)
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, Suchdol, 165 00 Praha, Czech Republic; (A.K.); (J.H.); (O.D.); (J.V.); or (K.M.); (I.T.)
- ICAR-Indian Institute of Rice Research (IIRR), Rajendra Nagar, Hyderabad 500030, Telangana, India
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, Suchdol, 165 00 Praha, Czech Republic; (A.K.); (J.H.); (O.D.); (J.V.); or (K.M.); (I.T.)
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Rubert-Nason KF, Yang P, Morrow CJ, Lindroth RL. Environment and Genotype Influence Quantitative and Qualitative Variation in Condensed Tannins in Aspen. J Chem Ecol 2023; 49:325-339. [PMID: 37183205 DOI: 10.1007/s10886-023-01430-5] [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: 01/15/2023] [Revised: 03/08/2023] [Accepted: 04/16/2023] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Condensed tannins (CTs) are abundant, ecologically-relevant secondary metabolites in many plants, which respond to variables associated with anthropogenic environmental change. While many studies have reported how genetic and environmental factors affect CT concentrations, few have explored how they influence CT molecular structure. Here, using trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) as a model organism, we report how foliar CT concentrations, polymer sizes, representation of procyanidins and prodelphinidins, and stereochemistry vary in response to changes in air temperature (warming and freeze damage), air composition (elevated CO2 and O3), soil quality (nutrients and microbiome), and herbivory (mammal and lepidopteran). Use of multiple aspen genotypes enabled assessment of genetic influences on aspen CTs. CT concentration and composition were analyzed by thiolysis-ultra high performance liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry in archived leaf samples from prior experiments. All environmental variables explored except for soil microbiome influenced both CT quantity and quality, with climate factors appearing to have larger effect magnitudes than herbivory. Climate, soil, and herbivory effects varied among genotypes, while air composition effects were consistent across genotypes. Considering that CT properties (concentrations and molecular structures) mediate functions at the organismal through ecosystem scales, intraspecific variation in responses of CT properties to environmental factors could provide a pathway through which environmental change exerts selective pressure on Populus populations. Future studies are needed to identify the molecular-level mechanisms by which environmental factors influence CT concentrations and structures, and to establish their ecological and evolutionary significance.
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- Kennedy F Rubert-Nason
- Dept. of Entomology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI, 53706, USA.
- Division of Natural Sciences, University of Maine - Fort Kent, 23 University Drive, Fort Kent, ME, 04743, USA.
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- Dept. of Zoology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- Dept. of Entomology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- Dept. of Entomology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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Siddique AB, Menke L, Dinedurga M, Albrectsen BR. Molecular studies of rust on European aspen suggest an autochthonous relationship shaped by genotype. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1111001. [PMID: 36890907 PMCID: PMC9986475 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1111001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2022] [Accepted: 02/01/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Forests are at increasing risk from pathogen outbreak. Climate change for example enhance the risk of local disease outbreaks, and naturalization of exotic pathogens may follow human activities, warranting robust pest surveillance routines to support forest management. Melampsora pinitorqua (pine twisting rust) is of concern in Swedish forestry, and here we evaluate the use of visible rust scores (VRS) on its obligate summer host, European aspen (Populus tremula) as a tool for quantification of the pathogen. With use of species-specific primers, we could detect the native rust, but we failed to detect two exotic rusts (M. medusae and M. larici-populina). We found that aspen genotype determined the presence of fungal genetic markers (amplifying the ITS2 region of the fungal rDNA sequence) as well as DNA sequences specific to M. pinitorqua. We correlated VRS with the amount of fungal DNA in the same leaf, and we related the findings to aspen genotype-specific parameters such as the ability to synthesize and store leaf condensed tannins (CT). At the genotype level both positive and negative relationships were observed between CTs, fungal markers, and rust infestations. However, at the population level, foliar CT concentrations correlated negatively with general fungal- and rust-specific marker abundances. Our results, therefore, do not support the use of VRS to assess Melampsora infestation in Aspen. They do, however, suggest that the relationship between European aspen and rust infestation may be characterized as autochthonous in northern Sweden.
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Mafakheri M, Bakhshipour M, Omrani M, Gholizadeh H, Rahimi N, Mobaraki A, Rahimi M. The impact of environmental and climatic variables on genetic diversity and plant functional traits of the endangered tuberous orchid (Orchis mascula L.). Sci Rep 2022; 12:19765. [PMID: 36396718 PMCID: PMC9672365 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-19864-4] [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: 02/01/2022] [Accepted: 09/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Understanding how environmental factors shape patterns of genetic and phenotypic variations in a species is necessary for conservation and plant breeding. However, these factors have not yet been completely understood in tuberous orchid species used to make 'Salep', an important ingredient in traditional medicine and beverages in middle eastern countries and India. In many areas, increasing demand has pushed species to the brink of extinction. In this study, 198 genotypes from 18 populations of the endangered species Orchis mascula L. spanning a large-scale climatic gradient in northern Iran were used to investigate patterns of genetic diversity and plant functional traits. Populations were sampled from three land cover types (woodland, shrubland, and pastureland/grassland). Plant height, stem length, number of flowers, bulb fresh and dry weight, glucomannan, and starch concentrations showed high variation among populations and were significantly related to land cover type. In general, genetic diversity was high, particularly in those from eastern Hyrcanian; additionally, populations showed a high level of genetic differentiation (G'st = 0.35) with low gene flow (Nm = 0.46). The majority of genetic differentiation occurred within populations (49%) and land cover types (20%). The population structural analysis using the AFLP marker data in K = 4 showed a high geographical affinity for 198 O. mascula genotypes, with some genotypes having mixed ancestry. Temperature and precipitation were found to shape genetic and phenotypic variation profoundly. Significant isolation by the environment was observed, confirming the strong effect of environmental variables on phenotypic and genetic variation. Marker-trait association studies based on MLM1 and MLM2 models revealed significant associations of P-TGG + M-CTT-33 and E-AGG + M-CGT-22 markers with plant height and glucomannan content. Overall, a combination of large-scale climatic variables and land cover types significantly shaped genetic diversity and functional trait variation in O. mascula populations.
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- Mohammad Mafakheri
- grid.27860.3b0000 0004 1936 9684Department of Plant Sciences, University of California - Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
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- grid.411872.90000 0001 2087 2250Department of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Guilan, P.O. Box, Rasht, 41635-1314 Iran
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- grid.1020.30000 0004 1936 7371School of Science and Technology, Faculty of Science, Agriculture, Business and Law, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351 Australia
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- grid.411622.20000 0000 9618 7703Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Basic Sciences, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Mazandaran Iran
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- grid.24805.3b0000 0001 0687 2182Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM USA
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- grid.411872.90000 0001 2087 2250Department of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Guilan, P.O. Box, Rasht, 41635-1314 Iran
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- grid.448905.40000 0004 4910 146XDepartment of Biotechnology, Institute of Science and High Technology and Environmental Sciences, Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Kerman, Iran
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Gudynaitė-Franckevičienė V, Pliūra A. Performance and Genetic Parameters of Poplar Hybrids and Clones in a Field Trial Are Modified by Contrasting Environmental Conditions during the Vegetative Propagation Phase. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 11:2401. [PMID: 36145802 PMCID: PMC9505758 DOI: 10.3390/plants11182401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2022] [Revised: 08/30/2022] [Accepted: 09/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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This study investigates epigenetics-like phenomena: how performance phenotypic plasticity, genotypic variation, and the heritability of growth traits and total phenolic compounds of Populus hybrids and clones in field trials may be modified by contrasting temperature conditions at their vegetation propagation phase. The significant effect of rooting-growing conditions on further tree performance in field trials was found for height increment in 2020, although the interaction hybrid by rooting-growing conditions was highly significant for phenolic compounds, tree height, and diameter, meaning that the performance of some hybrids was affected by rooting-growing conditions, thus demonstrating epigenetic-like effects. For phenolic compounds, interactions were also significant at the clonal level. High estimates of ecovalency indicate that some hybrids are ecologically sensitive, and epigenetic-like phenomena might occur. Hybrid P. balsamifera × P. trichocarpa is characterized by high ecovalency and specific adaptations according to mean tree height when vegetatively propagated under different rooting-growing conditions. Low estimates of P. deltoides × P. trichocarpa ecovalency demonstrate a general adaptation according to mean tree height in a field trial. Vegetative propagation conditions have also altered the genetic variation of traits in trees being planted in field trials.
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Rodríguez BD, Kloth KJ, Albrectsen BR. Effects of condensed tannins on behavior and performance of a specialist aphid on aspen. Ecol Evol 2022; 12:e9229. [PMID: 36016819 PMCID: PMC9396707 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2021] [Revised: 07/05/2022] [Accepted: 08/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Genes involved in plant defences against herbivores and pathogens are often highly polymorphic. This is a putative sign that balancing selection may have operated reciprocally on the hosts and their herbivores. Spatial and temporal variations (for example, in soil nutrients and the plants' ontogenetic development) may also modulate resistance traits, and thus selection pressures, but have been largely overlooked in theories of plant defences. Important elements of defences in Populus tremula (hereafter aspen) are phenolic compounds, including condensed tannins (CTs). Concentrations of CTs vary considerably with both variations in external factors and time, but they are also believed to provide genotype-dependent resistance, mainly against chewing herbivores and pathogens. However, evidence of their contributions to resistance is sparse. Detailed studies of co-evolved plant-herbivore associations could provide valuable insights into these contributions. Therefore, we examined correlations between CT levels in aspen leaves and both the feeding behavior and reproduction of the specialist aspen leaf aphid (Chaitophorus tremulae) in varied conditions. We found that xylem sap intake and probing difficulties were higher on genotypes with high-CT concentrations. However, aphids engaged in more nonprobing activities on low-CT genotypes, indicating that CTs were not the only defence traits involved. Thus, high-CT genotypes were not necessarily more resistant than low-CT genotypes, but aphid reproduction was generally negatively correlated with local CT accumulation. Genotype-specific resistance ranking also depended on the experimental conditions. These results support the hypothesis that growth conditions may affect selection pressures mediated by aphids in accordance with balancing selection theory.
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- Bárbara Díez Rodríguez
- Department of Plant Ecology and GeobotanyPhilipps‐University MarburgMarburgGermany
- Department of Plant PhysiologyUmeå Plant Science CentreUmeåSweden
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- Laboratory of EntomologyWageningen University and ResearchWageningenThe Netherlands
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Eisenring M, Best RJ, Zierden MR, Cooper HF, Norstrem MA, Whitham TG, Grady K, Allan GJ, Lindroth RL. Genetic divergence along a climate gradient shapes chemical plasticity of a foundation tree species to both changing climate and herbivore damage. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2022; 28:4684-4700. [PMID: 35596651 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16275] [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: 03/15/2022] [Accepted: 04/21/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Climate change is threatening the persistence of many tree species via independent and interactive effects on abiotic and biotic conditions. In addition, changes in temperature, precipitation, and insect attacks can alter the traits of these trees, disrupting communities and ecosystems. For foundation species such as Populus, phytochemical traits are key mechanisms linking trees with their environment and are likely jointly determined by interactive effects of genetic divergence and variable environments throughout their geographic range. Using reciprocal Fremont cottonwood (Populus fremontii) common gardens along a steep climatic gradient, we explored how environment (garden climate and simulated herbivore damage) and genetics (tree provenance and genotype) affect both foliar chemical traits and the plasticity of these traits. We found that (1) Constitutive and plastic chemical responses to changes in garden climate and damage varied among defense compounds, structural compounds, and leaf nitrogen. (2) For both defense and structural compounds, plastic responses to different garden climates depended on the climate in which a population or genotype originated. Specifically, trees originating from cool provenances showed higher defense plasticity in response to climate changes than trees from warmer provenances. (3) Trees from cool provenances growing in cool garden conditions expressed the lowest constitutive defense levels but the strongest induced (plastic) defenses in response to damage. (4) The combination of hot garden conditions and simulated herbivory switched the strategy used by these genotypes, increasing constitutive defenses but erasing the capacity for induction after damage. Because Fremont cottonwood chemistry plays a major role in shaping riparian communities and ecosystems, the effects of changes in phytochemical traits can be wide reaching. As the southwestern US is confronted with warming temperatures and insect outbreaks, these results improve our capacity to predict ecosystem consequences of climate change and inform selection of tree genotypes for conservation and restoration purposes.
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- Michael Eisenring
- Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Forest Entomology, Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research WSL, Zurich, Switzerland
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- School of Earth and Sustainability, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- Center for Adaptable Western Landscapes, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
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- School of Earth and Sustainability, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
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- Center for Adaptable Western Landscapes, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
- Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
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- School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
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- Center for Adaptable Western Landscapes, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
- Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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Gaur RK, de Abreu IN, Albrectsen BR. Compensatory phenolic induction dynamics in aspen after aphid infestation. Sci Rep 2022; 12:9582. [PMID: 35688882 PMCID: PMC9187625 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-13225-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2021] [Accepted: 05/23/2022] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Condensed tannins (CTs) are polyphenolics and part of the total phenolic (TP) pool that shape resistance in aspen (Populus tremula). CTs are negatively associated with pathogens, but their resistance properties against herbivores are less understood. CTs shape resistance to pathogens and chewing herbivores and could also shape resistance to aphids. Being chemical pools that are highly variable it can further be questioned whether CT-shaped resistance is better described by constitutive levels, by the induced response potential, or by both. Here, aspen genotypes were propagated and selected to represent a range of inherent abilities to produce and store foliar CTs; the plantlets were then exposed to Chaitophorus aphid infestation and to mechanical (leaf rupture) damage, and the relative abundance of constitutive and induced CTs was related to aphid fitness parameters. As expected, aphid fecundity was negatively related to CT-concentrations of the aphid infested plants although more consistently related to TPs. While TPs increased in response to damage, CT induction was generally low and it even dropped below constitutive levels in more CT-rich genotypes, suggesting that constitutive CTs are more relevant measurements of resistance compared to induced CT-levels. Relating CT and TP dynamics with phenolic low molecular compounds further suggested that catechin (the building block of CTs) increased in response to aphid damage in amounts that correlated negatively with CT-induction and positively with constitutive CT-levels and aphid fecundity. Our study portrays dynamic phenolic responses to two kinds of damage detailed for major phenylpropanoid classes and suggests that the ability of a genotype to produce and store CTs may be a measurement of resistance, caused by other, more reactive, phenolic compounds such as catechin. Rupture damage however appeared to induce catechin levels oppositely supporting that CTs may respond differently to different kinds of damage.
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- Rajarshi Kumar Gaur
- Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, 90187, Umeå, Sweden.,Department of Biotechnology, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, 273009, India
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, 90187, Umeå, Sweden
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Witzell J, Decker VHG, Agostinelli M, Romeralo C, Cleary M, Albrectsen BR. Aspen Leaves as a "Chemical Landscape" for Fungal Endophyte Diversity-Effects of Nitrogen Addition. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:846208. [PMID: 35387081 PMCID: PMC8978019 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.846208] [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: 12/30/2021] [Accepted: 01/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Abiotic and biotic factors may shape the mycobiome communities in plants directly but also indirectly by modifying the quality of host plants as a substrate. We hypothesized that nitrogen fertilization (N) would determine the quality of aspen (Populus tremula) leaves as a substrate for the endophytic fungi, and that by subjecting the plants to N, we could manipulate the concentrations of positive (nutritious) and negative (antifungal) chemicals in leaves, thus changing the internal “chemical landscape” for the fungi. We expected that this would lead to changes in the fungal community composition, in line with the predictions of heterogeneity–diversity relationship and resource availability hypotheses. To test this, we conducted a greenhouse study where aspen plants were subjected to N treatment. The chemical status of the leaves was confirmed using GC/MS (114 metabolites, including amino acids and sugars), LC/MS (11 phenolics), and UV-spectrometry (antifungal condensed tannins, CTs), and the endophytic communities were characterized using culture-dependent sequencing. We found that N treatment reduced foliar concentrations of CT precursor catechin but not that of CTs. Nitrogen treatment also increased the concentrations of the amino acids and reduced the concentration of some sugars. We introduced beetle herbivores (H) as a second treatment but found no rapid changes in chemical traits nor strong effect on the diversity of endophytes induced by herbivores. A few rare fungi were associated with and potentially vectored by the beetle herbivores. Our findings indicate that in a controlled environment, the externally induced changes did not strongly alter endophyte diversity in aspen leaves.
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- Johanna Witzell
- Forestry and Wood Technology, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden.,Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Center, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
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- Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden.,Forest Research Centre (INIA, CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
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Robinson KM, Möller L, Bhalerao RP, Hertzberg M, Nilsson O, Jansson S. Variation in non-target traits in genetically modified hybrid aspens does not exceed natural variation. N Biotechnol 2021; 64:27-36. [PMID: 34048978 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2021.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2021] [Revised: 05/20/2021] [Accepted: 05/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Genetically modified hybrid aspens (Populus tremula L. x P. tremuloides Michx.), selected for increased growth under controlled conditions, have been grown in highly replicated field trials to evaluate how the target trait (growth) translated to natural conditions. Moreover, the variation was compared among genotypes of ecologically important non-target traits: number of shoots, bud set, pathogen infection, amount of insect herbivory, composition of the insect herbivore community and flower bud induction. This variation was compared with the variation in a population of randomly selected natural accessions of P. tremula grown in common garden trials, to estimate how the "unintended variation" present in transgenic trees, which in the future may be commercialized, compares with natural variation. The natural variation in the traits was found to be typically significantly greater. The data suggest that when authorities evaluate the potential risks associated with a field experiment or commercial introduction of transgenic trees, risk evaluation should focus on target traits and that unintentional variation in non-target traits is of less concern.
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- Kathryn M Robinson
- Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, 901 87, Umeå, Sweden.
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- SweTree Technologies AB, P.O Box 4095, 904 03, Umeå, Sweden.
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- Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901 83, Umeå, Sweden.
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- Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901 83, Umeå, Sweden.
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- Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, 901 87, Umeå, Sweden.
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Liu J, Sun Y, Liu W, Tan Z, Jiang J, Li Y. Association of spectroscopically determined leaf nutrition related traits and breeding selection in Sassafras tzumu. PLANT METHODS 2021; 17:33. [PMID: 33789705 PMCID: PMC8010991 DOI: 10.1186/s13007-021-00734-5] [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: 07/24/2020] [Accepted: 03/19/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND Plant traits related to nutrition have an influential role in tree growth, tree production and nutrient cycling. Therefore, the breeding program should consider the genetics of the traits. However, the measurement methods could seriously affect the progress of breeding selection program. In this study, we tested the ability of spectroscopy to quantify the specific leaf nutrition traits including anthocyanins (ANTH), flavonoids (FLAV) and nitrogen balance index (NBI), and estimated the genetic variation of these leaf traits based on the spectroscopic predicted data. Fresh leaves of Sassafras tzumu were selected for spectral collection and ANTH, FLAV and NBI concentrations measurement by standard analytical methods. Partial least squares regression (PLSR), five spectra pre-processing methods, and four variable selection algorisms were conducted for the optimal model selection. Each trait model was simulated 200 times for error estimation. RESULTS The standard normal variate (SNV) to the ANTH model and 1st derivatives to the FLAV and NBI models, combined with significant Multivariate Correlation (sMC) algorithm variable selection are finally regarded as the best performance models. The ANTH model produced the highest accuracy of prediction with a mean R2 of 0.72 and mean RMSE of 0.10%, followed by FLAV and NBI model (mean R2 of 0.58, mean RMSE of 0.11% and mean R2 of 0.44, mean RMSE of 0.04%). High heritability was found for ANTH, FLAV and NBI with h2 of 0.78, 0.58 and 0.61 respectively. It shows that it is beneficial and possible for breeding selection to the improvement of leaf nutrition traits. CONCLUSIONS Spectroscopy can successfully characterize the leaf nutrition traits in living tree leaves and the ability to simultaneous multiple plant traits provides a promising and high-throughput tool for the quick analysis of large size samples and serves for genetic breeding program.
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- Jun Liu
- Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Fuyang, 311400, Zhejiang, China
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- Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Fuyang, 311400, Zhejiang, China
- College of Forestry, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Fuyang, 311400, Zhejiang, China
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- Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Fuyang, 311400, Zhejiang, China
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- Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Fuyang, 311400, Zhejiang, China
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- Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Fuyang, 311400, Zhejiang, China.
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Cole CT, Morrow CJ, Barker HL, Rubert-Nason KF, Riehl JFL, Köllner TG, Lackus ND, Lindroth RL. Growing up aspen: ontogeny and trade-offs shape growth, defence and reproduction in a foundation species. ANNALS OF BOTANY 2021; 127:505-517. [PMID: 32296821 PMCID: PMC7988516 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcaa070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2020] [Accepted: 04/13/2020] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Intraspecific variation in foundation species of forest ecosystems can shape community and ecosystem properties, particularly when that variation has a genetic basis. Traits mediating interactions with other species are predicted by simple allocation models to follow ontogenetic patterns that are rarely studied in trees. The aim of this research was to identify the roles of genotype, ontogeny and genotypic trade-offs shaping growth, defence and reproduction in aspen. METHODS We established a common garden replicating >500 aspen genets in Wisconsin, USA. Trees were measured through the juvenile period into the onset of reproduction, for growth, defence chemistry (phenolic glycosides and condensed tannins), nitrogen, extrafloral nectaries, leaf morphology (specific leaf area), flower production and foliar herbivory and disease. We also assayed the TOZ19 sex marker and heterozygosity at ten microsatellite loci. KEY RESULTS We found high levels of genotypic variation for all traits, and high heritabilities for both the traits and their ontogenetic trajectories. Ontogeny strongly shaped intraspecific variation, and trade-offs among growth, defence and reproduction supported some predictions while contradicting others. Both direct resistance (chemical defence) and indirect defence (extrafloral nectaries) declined during the juvenile stage, prior to the onset of reproduction. Reproduction was higher in trees that were larger, male and had higher individual heterozygosity. Growth was diminished by genotypic allocation to both direct and indirect defence as well as to reproduction, but we found no evidence of trade-offs between defence and reproduction. CONCLUSIONS Key traits affecting the ecological communities of aspen have high levels of genotypic variation and heritability, strong patterns of ontogeny and clear trade-offs among growth, defence and reproduction. The architecture of aspen's community genetics - its ontogeny, trade-offs and especially its great variability - is shaped by both its broad range and the diverse community of associates, and in turn further fosters that diversity.
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- Christopher T Cole
- Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI, USA
- Department of Natural and Behavioral Sciences, University of Maine at Ft. Kent, 23 University Drive, Fort Kent, ME, USA
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- Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Department of Biochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Strasse 8, Jena, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Department of Biochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Strasse 8, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI, USA
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Consistent community genetic effects in the context of strong environmental and temporal variation in Eucalyptus. Oecologia 2021; 195:367-382. [PMID: 33471200 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-020-04835-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2020] [Accepted: 12/12/2020] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Provenance translocations of tree species are promoted in forestry, conservation, and restoration in response to global climate change. While this option is driven by adaptive considerations, less is known of the effects translocations can have on dependent communities. We investigated the relative importance and consistency of extended genetic effects in Eucalyptus using two species-E. globulus and E. pauciflora. In E. globulus, the dependent arthropod and pathogen canopy communities were quantified based on the abundance of 49 symptoms from 722 progeny from 13 geographic sub-races across 2 common gardens. For E. pauciflora, 6 symptoms were quantified over 2 years from 238 progeny from 16 provenances across 2 common gardens. Genetic effects significantly influenced communities in both species. However, site and year effects outweighed genetic effects with site explaining approximately 3 times the variation in community traits in E. globulus and site and year explaining approximately 6 times the variation in E. pauciflora. While the genetic effect interaction terms were significant in some community traits, broad trends in community traits associated with variation in home-site latitude for E. globulus and home-site altitude for E. pauciflora were evident. These broad-scale trends were consistent with patterns of adaptive differentiation within each species, suggesting there may be extended consequences of local adaptation. While small in comparison to site and year, the consistency of genetic effects highlights the importance of provenance choice in tree species, such as Eucalyptus, as adaptive divergence among provenances may have significant long-term effects on biotic communities.
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Valdés-Correcher E, Bourdin A, González-Martínez SC, Moreira X, Galmán A, Castagneyrol B, Hampe A. Leaf chemical defences and insect herbivory in oak: accounting for canopy position unravels marked genetic relatedness effects. ANNALS OF BOTANY 2020; 126:865-872. [PMID: 32463869 PMCID: PMC7539359 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcaa101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2019] [Accepted: 05/22/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Highly controlled experiments document that plant genetic diversity and relatedness can shape herbivore communities and patterns of herbivory. Evidence from the field is, however, scarce and inconsistent. We assessed whether a genetic signal underlying herbivory can be detected in oak woodlands when accounting for variation at smaller (within-tree) and larger (among-stand) scales. METHODS We tested relationships between tree genetic relatedness, leaf chemical defences and insect herbivory for different canopy layers in 240 trees from 15 pedunculate oak (Quercus robur) forest stands. We partitioned sources of variability in herbivory and defences among stands, individuals and branches. KEY RESULTS Leaf defences, insect herbivory and their relationship differed systematically between the upper and the lower tree canopy. When accounting for this canopy effect, the variation explained by tree genetic relatedness rose from 2.8 to 34.1 % for herbivory and from 7.1 to 13.8 % for leaf defences. The effect was driven by markedly stronger relationships in the upper canopy. CONCLUSIONS Our findings illustrate that considerable effects of the host plant genotype on levels of leaf chemical defences and associated insect herbivory can be detected in natural tree populations when within-individual variation is properly accounted for.
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- Misión Biológica de Galicia (MBG-CSIC), Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
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- Misión Biológica de Galicia (MBG-CSIC), Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
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- INRAE, Univ. Bordeaux, BIOGECO, Cestas, France
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Derba-Maceluch M, Amini F, Donev EN, Pawar PMA, Michaud L, Johansson U, Albrectsen BR, Mellerowicz EJ. Cell Wall Acetylation in Hybrid Aspen Affects Field Performance, Foliar Phenolic Composition and Resistance to Biological Stress Factors in a Construct-Dependent Fashion. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:651. [PMID: 32528503 PMCID: PMC7265884 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2020] [Accepted: 04/27/2020] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The production of biofuels and "green" chemicals from the lignocellulose of fast-growing hardwood species is hampered by extensive acetylation of xylan. Different strategies have been implemented to reduce xylan acetylation, resulting in transgenic plants that show good growth in the greenhouse, improved saccharification and fermentation, but the field performance of such plants has not yet been reported. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of reduced acetylation on field productivity and identify the best strategies for decreasing acetylation. Growth and biological stress data were evaluated for 18 hybrid aspen lines with 10-20% reductions in the cell wall acetyl content from a five year field experiment in Southern Sweden. The reduction in acetyl content was achieved either by suppressing the process of acetylation in the Golgi by reducing expression of REDUCED WALL ACETYLATION (RWA) genes, or by post-synthetic acetyl removal by fungal acetyl xylan esterases (AXEs) from two different families, CE1 and CE5, targeting them to cell walls. Transgene expression was regulated by either a constitutive promoter (35S) or a wood-specific promoter (WP). For the majority of transgenic lines, growth was either similar to that in WT and transgenic control (WP:GUS) plants, or slightly reduced. The slight reduction was observed in the AXE-expressing lines regulated by the 35S promoter, not those with the WP promoter which limits expression to cells developing secondary walls. Expressing AXEs regulated by the 35S promoter resulted in increased foliar arthropod chewing, and altered condensed tannins and salicinoid phenolic glucosides (SPGs) profiles. Greater growth inhibition was observed in the case of CE5 than with CE1 AXE, and it was associated with increased foliar necrosis and distinct SPG profiles, suggesting that CE5 AXE could be recognized by the pathogen-associated molecular pattern system. For each of three different constructs, there was a line with dwarfism and growth abnormalities, suggesting random genetic/epigenetic changes. This high frequency of dwarfism (17%) is suggestive of a link between acetyl metabolism and chromatin function. These data represent the first evaluation of acetyl-reduced plants from the field, indicating some possible pitfalls, and identifying the best strategies, when developing highly productive acetyl-reduced feedstocks.
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- Marta Derba-Maceluch
- Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Biology Department, Faculty of Science, Arak University, Arak, Iran
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- Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Tönnersjöheden Experimental Forest, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Simlångsdalen, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
- *Correspondence: Ewa J. Mellerowicz,
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Barker HL, Riehl JF, Bernhardsson C, Rubert-Nason KF, Holeski LM, Ingvarsson PK, Lindroth RL. Linking plant genes to insect communities: Identifying the genetic bases of plant traits and community composition. Mol Ecol 2019; 28:4404-4421. [PMID: 31233634 DOI: 10.1111/mec.15158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2019] [Revised: 05/31/2019] [Accepted: 06/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Community genetics aims to understand the effects of intraspecific genetic variation on community composition and diversity, thereby connecting community ecology with evolutionary biology. Thus far, research has shown that plant genetics can underlie variation in the composition of associated communities (e.g., insects, lichen and endophytes), and those communities can therefore be considered as extended phenotypes. This work, however, has been conducted primarily at the plant genotype level and has not identified the key underlying genes. To address this gap, we used genome-wide association mapping with a population of 445 aspen (Populus tremuloides) genets to identify the genes governing variation in plant traits (defence chemistry, bud phenology, leaf morphology, growth) and insect community composition. We found 49 significant SNP associations in 13 Populus genes that are correlated with chemical defence compounds and insect community traits. Most notably, we identified an early nodulin-like protein that was associated with insect community diversity and the abundance of interacting foundation species (ants and aphids). These findings support the concept that particular plant traits are the mechanistic link between plant genes and the composition of associated insect communities. In putting the "genes" into "genes to ecosystems ecology", this work enhances understanding of the molecular genetic mechanisms that underlie plant-insect associations and the consequences thereof for the structure of ecological communities.
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- Hilary L Barker
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, Uppsala BioCenter, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.,Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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Barker HL, Holeski LM, Lindroth RL. Independent and interactive effects of plant genotype and environment on plant traits and insect herbivore performance: A meta‐analysis with Salicaceae. Funct Ecol 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Hilary L. Barker
- Department of Integrative Biology University of Wisconsin‐Madison Madison Wisconsin
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- Department of Biological Sciences Northern Arizona University Flagstaff Arizona
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- Department of Integrative Biology University of Wisconsin‐Madison Madison Wisconsin
- Department of Entomology University of Wisconsin‐Madison Madison Wisconsin
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Lamara M, Parent GJ, Giguère I, Beaulieu J, Bousquet J, MacKay JJ. Association genetics of acetophenone defence against spruce budworm in mature white spruce. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2018; 18:231. [PMID: 30309315 PMCID: PMC6182838 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-018-1434-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2017] [Accepted: 09/23/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND Outbreaks of spruce budworm (SBW, Choristoneura fumiferana Clem.) cause major recurrent damage in boreal conifers such as white spruce (Picea glauca [Moench] Voss) and large losses of forest biomass in North America. Although defensive phenolic compounds have recently been linked to chemical resistance against SBW, their genetic basis remains poorly understood in forest trees, especially in conifers. Here, we used diverse association genetics approaches to discover genes and their variants that may control the accumulation of acetophenones, and dissect the genetic architecture of these defence compounds against SBW in white spruce mature trees. RESULTS Out of 4747 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from 2312 genes genotyped in a population of 211 unrelated individuals, genetic association analyses identified 35 SNPs in 33 different genes that were significantly associated with the defence traits by using single-locus, multi-locus and multi-trait approaches. The multi-locus approach was particularly effective at detecting SNP-trait associations that explained a large fraction of the phenotypic variance (from 20 to 43%). Significant genes were regulatory including the NAC transcription factor, or they were involved in carbohydrate metabolism, falling into the binding, catalytic or transporter activity functional classes. Most of them were highly expressed in foliage. Weak positive phenotypic correlations were observed between defence and growth traits, indicating little or no evidence of defence-growth trade-offs. CONCLUSIONS This study provides new insights on the genetic architecture of tree defence traits, contributing to our understanding of the physiology of resistance mechanisms to biotic factors and providing a basis for the genetic improvement of the constitutive defence of white spruce against SBW.
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- Mebarek Lamara
- Forest Research Centre and Institute for Systems and Integrative Biology, Département des sciences du bois et de la forêt, Université Laval, Qc, Québec, G1V 0A6 Canada
- Canada Research Chair in Forest Genomics, Université Laval, Qc, Québec, G1V 0A6 Canada
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- Forest Research Centre and Institute for Systems and Integrative Biology, Département des sciences du bois et de la forêt, Université Laval, Qc, Québec, G1V 0A6 Canada
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- Forest Research Centre and Institute for Systems and Integrative Biology, Département des sciences du bois et de la forêt, Université Laval, Qc, Québec, G1V 0A6 Canada
- Canada Research Chair in Forest Genomics, Université Laval, Qc, Québec, G1V 0A6 Canada
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- Forest Research Centre and Institute for Systems and Integrative Biology, Département des sciences du bois et de la forêt, Université Laval, Qc, Québec, G1V 0A6 Canada
- Canada Research Chair in Forest Genomics, Université Laval, Qc, Québec, G1V 0A6 Canada
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- Forest Research Centre and Institute for Systems and Integrative Biology, Département des sciences du bois et de la forêt, Université Laval, Qc, Québec, G1V 0A6 Canada
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3RB UK
- Canada Research Chair in Forest Genomics, Université Laval, Qc, Québec, G1V 0A6 Canada
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Raffard A, Santoul F, Cucherousset J, Blanchet S. The community and ecosystem consequences of intraspecific diversity: a meta-analysis. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2018; 94:648-661. [PMID: 30294844 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2018] [Revised: 09/12/2018] [Accepted: 09/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Understanding the relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has major implications. Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships are generally investigated at the interspecific level, although intraspecific diversity (i.e. within-species diversity) is increasingly perceived as an important ecological facet of biodiversity. Here, we provide a quantitative and integrative synthesis testing, across diverse plant and animal species, whether intraspecific diversity is a major driver of community dynamics and ecosystem functioning. We specifically tested (i) whether the number of genotypes/phenotypes (i.e. intraspecific richness) or the specific identity of genotypes/phenotypes (i.e. intraspecific variation) in populations modulate the structure of communities and the functioning of ecosystems, (ii) whether the ecological effects of intraspecific richness and variation are strong in magnitude, and (iii) whether these effects vary among taxonomic groups and ecological responses. We found a non-linear relationship between intraspecific richness and community and ecosystem dynamics that follows a saturating curve shape, as observed for biodiversity-function relationships measured at the interspecific level. Importantly, intraspecific richness modulated ecological dynamics with a magnitude that was equal to that previously reported for interspecific richness. Our results further confirm, based on a database containing more than 50 species, that intraspecific variation also has substantial effects on ecological dynamics. We demonstrated that the effects of intraspecific variation are twice as high as expected by chance, and that they might have been underestimated previously. Finally, we found that the ecological effects of intraspecific variation are not homogeneous and are actually stronger when intraspecific variation is manipulated in primary producers than in consumer species, and when they are measured at the ecosystem rather than at the community level. Overall, we demonstrated that the two facets of intraspecific diversity (richness and variation) can both strongly affect community and ecosystem dynamics, which reveals the pivotal role of within-species biodiversity for understanding ecological dynamics.
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- Allan Raffard
- CNRS, Station d'Écologie Théorique et Expérimentale du CNRS à Moulis UMR-5321, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, 2 route du CNRS, F-09200, Moulis, France.,EcoLab, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, INPT, UPS, 31062 Toulouse, France
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- EcoLab, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, INPT, UPS, 31062 Toulouse, France
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- CNRS, IRD, UPS, Laboratoire Évolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB UMR 5174), Université de Toulouse, 118 route de Narbonne, Toulouse 31062, France
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- CNRS, Station d'Écologie Théorique et Expérimentale du CNRS à Moulis UMR-5321, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, 2 route du CNRS, F-09200, Moulis, France.,CNRS, IRD, UPS, Laboratoire Évolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB UMR 5174), Université de Toulouse, 118 route de Narbonne, Toulouse 31062, France
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Barker HL, Holeski LM, Lindroth RL. Genotypic variation in plant traits shapes herbivorous insect and ant communities on a foundation tree species. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0200954. [PMID: 30063740 PMCID: PMC6067713 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2018] [Accepted: 07/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Community genetics aims to understand the effects of intraspecific genetic variation on community composition and diversity, thereby connecting community ecology with evolutionary biology. Multiple studies have shown that different plant genotypes harbor different communities of associated organisms, such as insects. Yet, the mechanistic links that tie insect community composition to plant genetics are still not well understood. To shed light on these relationships, we explored variation in both plant traits (e.g., growth, phenology, defense) and herbivorous insect and ant communities on 328 replicated aspen (Populus tremuloides) genets grown in a common garden. We measured traits and visually surveyed insect communities annually in 2014 and 2015. We found that insect communities overall exhibited low heritability and were shaped primarily by relationships among key insects (i.e., aphids, ants, and free-feeders). Several tree traits affected insect communities and the presence/absence of species and functional groups. Of these traits, tree size and foliar phenology were the most important. Larger trees had denser (i.e., number of insects per unit tree size) and more diverse insect communities, while timing of bud break and bud set differentially influenced particular species and insect groups, especially leaf modifying insects. These findings will inform future research directed toward identification of plant genes and genetic regions that underlie the structure of associated insect communities.
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- Hilary L. Barker
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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Lämke JS, Unsicker SB. Phytochemical variation in treetops: causes and consequences for tree-insect herbivore interactions. Oecologia 2018; 187:377-388. [PMID: 29473116 PMCID: PMC5997108 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-018-4087-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2017] [Accepted: 02/06/2018] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The interaction of plants and their herbivorous opponents has shaped the evolution of an intricate network of defences and counter-defences for millions of years. The result is an astounding diversity of phytochemicals and plant strategies to fight and survive. Trees are specifically challenged to resist the plethora of abiotic and biotic stresses due to their dimension and longevity. Here, we review the recent literature on the consequences of phytochemical variation in trees on insect-tree-herbivore interactions. We discuss the importance of genotypic and phenotypic variation in tree defence against insects and suggest some molecular mechanisms that might bring about phytochemical diversity in crowns of individual trees.
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- Jörn S Lämke
- Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans-Knöll Str. 8, 07745, Jena, Germany.
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Wise MJ. Defense with benefits? Ducking plants outperformed erect plants in the goldenrod Solidago gigantea in the absence of herbivory. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2018; 105:1096-1103. [PMID: 29936699 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2017] [Accepted: 03/21/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY Despite the fact that herbivores can be highly detrimental to their host plants' fitness, plant populations often maintain genetic variation for resistance to their natural enemies. Investigating the various costs (e.g., allocation tradeoffs, autotoxicity, and ecological costs) that may prevent plants from evolving to their fullest potential resistance has been a productive strategy for shedding insight into the eco-evolutionary dynamics of plant-herbivore communities. METHODS Recent studies have shown that some individuals of goldenrod (Solidago spp.) evade apex-attacking herbivores by a temporary nodding of their stem (i.e., resistance-by-ducking). Although ducking provides an obvious fitness benefit to these individuals, nonducking (erect) morphs persist in goldenrod populations. In this study, I investigated potential costs of ducking in Solidago gigantea in terms of tradeoffs involving growth and reproduction in a common garden experiment using field-collected seeds. KEY RESULTS The S. gigantea population contained substantial genetic variation for stem morph, with 28% erect and 72% ducking stems. In the absence of herbivory, ducking plants were taller, had thicker stems, and produced an average of 20% more seeds than erect plants. CONCLUSIONS This study suggests that resistance-by-ducking, instead of being costly, actually comes with additional, nondefense-related benefits. These results support the conclusion that the factors that constrain the evolution of resistance in plant populations are likely to be more subtle and complex than simple tradeoffs in resource allocation.
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- Michael J Wise
- Department of Biology, Roanoke College, 221 College Lane, Salem, VA, 24153
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Loeuille N, Hauzy C. Multidimensionality of plant defenses and herbivore niches: Implications for eco-evolutionary dynamics. J Theor Biol 2018; 445:110-119. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2018.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2016] [Revised: 02/07/2018] [Accepted: 02/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Woolbright SA, Rehill BJ, Lindroth RL, DiFazio SP, Martinsen GD, Zinkgraf MS, Allan GJ, Keim P, Whitham TG. Large effect quantitative trait loci for salicinoid phenolic glycosides in Populus: Implications for gene discovery. Ecol Evol 2018; 8:3726-3737. [PMID: 29686853 PMCID: PMC5901179 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2017] [Revised: 01/11/2018] [Accepted: 01/23/2018] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Genomic studies have been used to identify genes underlying many important plant secondary metabolic pathways. However, genes for salicinoid phenolic glycosides (SPGs)—ecologically important compounds with significant commercial, cultural, and medicinal applications—remain largely undescribed. We used a linkage map derived from a full‐sib population of hybrid cottonwoods (Populus spp.) to search for quantitative trait loci (QTL) for the SPGs salicortin and HCH‐salicortin. SSR markers and primer sequences were used to anchor the map to the V3.0 P. trichocarpa genome. We discovered 21 QTL for the two traits, including a major QTL for HCH‐salicortin (R2 = .52) that colocated with a QTL for salicortin on chr12. Using the V3.0 Populus genome sequence, we identified 2,983 annotated genes and 1,480 genes of unknown function within our QTL intervals. We note ten candidate genes of interest, including a BAHD‐type acyltransferase that has been potentially linked to PopulusSPGs. Our results complement other recent studies in Populus with implications for gene discovery and the evolution of defensive chemistry in a model genus. To our knowledge, this is the first study to use a full‐sib mapping population to identify QTL intervals and gene lists associated with SPGs.
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- Scott A Woolbright
- Department of Biology University of Arkansas at Little Rock Little Rock AR USA
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- Department of Chemistry US Naval Academy Annapolis MD USA
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- Environmental Genetics and Genomics Laboratory (EnGGen) Department of Biological Sciences Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research Northern Arizona University Flagstaff AZ USA
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- Environmental Genetics and Genomics Laboratory (EnGGen) Department of Biological Sciences Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research Northern Arizona University Flagstaff AZ USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences Pathogen and Microbe Institute Northern Arizona University Flagstaff AZ USA
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- Environmental Genetics and Genomics Laboratory (EnGGen) Department of Biological Sciences Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research Northern Arizona University Flagstaff AZ USA
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Harrison JG, Philbin CS, Gompert Z, Forister GW, Hernandez‐Espinoza L, Sullivan BW, Wallace IS, Beltran L, Dodson CD, Francis JS, Schlageter A, Shelef O, Yoon SA, Forister ML. Deconstruction of a plant‐arthropod community reveals influential plant traits with nonlinear effects on arthropod assemblages. Funct Ecol 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- Joshua G. Harrison
- Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology University of Nevada Reno NV USA
- Department of Biology University of Nevada Reno NV USA
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- Bohart Museum of Entomology University of California Davis CA USA
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- Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology University of Nevada Reno NV USA
- Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science University of Nevada Reno NV USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Nevada Reno NV USA
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- Department of Biology University of Nevada Reno NV USA
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- Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology University of Nevada Reno NV USA
- Department of Biology University of Nevada Reno NV USA
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- Department of Biology University of Nevada Reno NV USA
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- Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology University of Nevada Reno NV USA
- Department of Biology University of Nevada Reno NV USA
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- Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology University of Nevada Reno NV USA
- Department of Biology University of Nevada Reno NV USA
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Albrectsen BR, Siddique AB, Decker VHG, Unterseher M, Robinson KM. Both plant genotype and herbivory shape aspen endophyte communities. Oecologia 2018; 187:535-545. [PMID: 29492690 PMCID: PMC5997111 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-018-4097-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2017] [Accepted: 02/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Salicinoid phenolic glycosides are common defence substances in salicaceous trees and specialist leaf beetles use these compounds for their own defence against predators. Salicinoids vary qualitatively and qualitatively in aspen (Populus tremula) and this variation has a genetic basis. The foliar endophyte mycobiome is plentiful and we hypothesised that it is related to plant genotype, potentially mediated by salicinoid composition, and that interactions with the leaf beetle Chrysomela tremula may alter this relationship. We studied these three-way interactions in controlled greenhouse experiments. Endophytic fungi were isolated from sterilised leaf tissues with and without beetle damage, and from beetles. We confirmed that endophyte composition was influenced by host genotype. Beetle activity added generalist morphs to the mycobiome that overrode the initial host association. Yeast-like genera (Cryptococcus and Rhodotorula) were isolated only from beetle-damaged tissues and from beetles, whereas fast-growing filamentous fungi dominated beetle-free control plants. Competition experiments between filamentous fungi of plant origin and beetle-related yeasts suggested interaction of both stimulating and inhibiting modes of action amongst the fungi. As a result, we detected examples of amensalism, commensalism, parasitism and competition between the morphs tested, but we found no evidence of mutualism, and consequently no co-evolutionary relationship could be demonstrated, between yeasts carried by beetles, host genotype and associated filamentous morphs. Endophyte studies are method-dependent and high-throughput sequencing technology best define the fungal mycobiome, culturing however continues to be a cheap way to provide fundamental ecological insights and it is also required for experimental studies.
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- Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald, Institut für Botanik und Landschaftsökologie, Soldmannstr. 15, 17487, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå, Sweden
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- Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald, Institut für Botanik und Landschaftsökologie, Soldmannstr. 15, 17487, Greifswald, Germany.,Evangelisches Schulzentrum Martinschule, Max-Planck- Str. 7, 17491, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå, Sweden
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Michelson IH, Ingvarsson PK, Robinson KM, Edlund E, Eriksson ME, Nilsson O, Jansson S. Autumn senescence in aspen is not triggered by day length. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2018; 162:123-134. [PMID: 28591431 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.12593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2017] [Revised: 05/13/2017] [Accepted: 05/30/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Autumn senescence in mature aspens, grown under natural conditions, is initiated at almost the same date every year. The mechanism of such precise timing is not understood but we have previously shown that the signal must be derived from light. We studied variation in bud set and autumn senescence in a collection of 116 natural Eurasian aspen (Populus tremula) genotypes, from 12 populations in Sweden and planted in one northern and one southern common garden, to test the hypothesis that onset of autumn senescence is triggered by day length. We confirmed that, although bud set seemed to be triggered by a critical photoperiod/day length, other factors may influence it. The data on initiation of autumn senescence, on the other hand, were incompatible with the trigger being the day length per se, hence the trigger must be some other light-dependent factor.
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- Ingrid H Michelson
- Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Department of Plant Biology, Uppsala BioCenter, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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Wininger K, Rank N. Evolutionary dynamics of interactions between plants and their enemies: comparison of herbivorous insects and pathogens. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2017; 1408:46-60. [PMID: 29125186 DOI: 10.1111/nyas.13541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2016] [Revised: 09/29/2017] [Accepted: 10/04/2017] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Plants colonized land over 400 million years ago. Shortly thereafter, organisms began to consume terrestrial plant tissue as a nutritional resource. Most plant enemies are plant pathogens or herbivores, and they impose natural selection for plants to evolve defenses. These traits generate selection pressures on enemies. Coevolution between terrestrial plants and their enemies is an important element of the evolutionary history of both groups. However, coevolutionary studies of plant-pathogen interactions have tended to focus on different research topics than plant-herbivore interactions. Specifically, studies of plant-pathogen interactions often adopt a "gene-for-gene" conceptual framework. In contrast, studies of plants and herbivores often investigate escalation or elaboration of plant defense and herbivore adaptations to overcome it. The main exceptions to the general pattern are studies that focus on small, sessile herbivores that share many features with plant pathogens, studies that incorporate both herbivores and pathogens into a single investigation, and studies that test aspects of Thompson's geographic mosaic theory for coevolution. We discuss the implications of these findings for future research.
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- Kerry Wininger
- Department of Biology, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
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- Department of Biology, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
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Gosney B, O'Reilly-Wapstra J, Forster L, Whiteley C, Potts B. The Extended Community-Level Effects of Genetic Variation in Foliar Wax Chemistry in the Forest Tree Eucalyptus globulus. J Chem Ecol 2017; 43:532-542. [PMID: 28478546 DOI: 10.1007/s10886-017-0849-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2016] [Revised: 03/30/2017] [Accepted: 04/25/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Genetic variation in foundation trees can influence dependent communities, but little is known about the mechanisms driving these extended genetic effects. We studied the potential chemical drivers of genetic variation in the dependent foliar community of the focal tree Eucalyptus globulus. We focus on the role of cuticular waxes and compare the effects to that of the terpenes, a well-studied group of secondary compounds known to be bioactive in eucalypts. The canopy community was quantified based on the abundance of thirty-nine distinctive arthropod and fungal symptoms on foliar samples collected from canopies of 246 progeny from 13 E. globulus sub-races grown in a common garden trial. Cuticular waxes and foliar terpenes were quantified using gas chromatography - mass spectrometry (GC-MC). A total of 4 of the 13 quantified waxes and 7 of the 16 quantified terpenes were significantly associated with the dependent foliar community. Variation in waxes explained 22.9% of the community variation among sub-races, which was equivalent to that explained by terpenes. In combination, waxes and terpenes explained 35% of the genetic variation among sub-races. Only a small proportion of wax and terpene compounds showing statistically significant differences among sub-races were implicated in community level effects. The few significant waxes have previously shown evidence of divergent selection in E. globulus, which signals that adaptive variation in phenotypic traits may have extended effects. While highlighting the role of the understudied cuticular waxes, this study demonstrates the complexity of factors likely to lead to community genetic effects in foundation trees.
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- Benjamin Gosney
- School of Biological Science, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 55, Hobart, TAS, 7001, Australia.
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- School of Agricultural Science, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 50, Hobart, TAS, 7001, Australia
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- School of Biological Science, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 55, Hobart, TAS, 7001, Australia
- ARC Training Centre for Forest Value, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 55, Hobart, TAS, 7001, Australia
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- School of Biological Science, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 55, Hobart, TAS, 7001, Australia
- ARC Training Centre for Forest Value, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 55, Hobart, TAS, 7001, Australia
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Buhl C, Meilan R, Lindroth RL. Genetic Modification of Lignin in Hybrid Poplar (Populus alba × Populus tremula) Does Not Substantially Alter Plant Defense or Arthropod Communities. JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE (ONLINE) 2017; 17:3858857. [PMID: 28973575 PMCID: PMC5538326 DOI: 10.1093/jisesa/iex052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Lignin impedes access to cellulose during biofuel production and pulping but trees can be genetically modified to improve processing efficiency. Modification of lignin may have nontarget effects on mechanical and chemical resistance and subsequent arthropod community responses with respect to pest susceptibility and arthropod biodiversity. We quantified foliar mechanical and chemical resistance traits in lignin-modified and wild-type (WT) poplar (Populus alba × Populus tremula) grown in a plantation and censused arthropods present on these trees to determine total abundance, as well as species richness, diversity and community composition. Our results indicate that mechanical resistance was not affected by lignin modification and only one genetic construct resulted in a (modest) change in chemical resistance. Arthropod abundance and community composition were consistent across modified and WT trees, but transgenics produced using one construct exhibited higher species richness and diversity relative to the WT. Our findings indicate that modification of lignin in poplar does not negatively affect herbivore resistance traits or arthropod community response, and may even result in a source of increased genetic diversity in trees and arthropod communities.
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- Christine Buhl
- Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1630 Linden Dr., Madison, WI 53706 (; )
- Current address: 2600 State St., Salem, OR 97310
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- Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, 715 W. State St., West Lafayette, IN 47907 ()
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- Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1630 Linden Dr., Madison, WI 53706 (; )
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Mähler N, Wang J, Terebieniec BK, Ingvarsson PK, Street NR, Hvidsten TR. Gene co-expression network connectivity is an important determinant of selective constraint. PLoS Genet 2017; 13:e1006402. [PMID: 28406900 PMCID: PMC5407845 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2016] [Revised: 04/27/2017] [Accepted: 03/31/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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While several studies have investigated general properties of the genetic architecture of natural variation in gene expression, few of these have considered natural, outbreeding populations. In parallel, systems biology has established that a general feature of biological networks is that they are scale-free, rendering them buffered against random mutations. To date, few studies have attempted to examine the relationship between the selective processes acting to maintain natural variation of gene expression and the associated co-expression network structure. Here we utilised RNA-Sequencing to assay gene expression in winter buds undergoing bud flush in a natural population of Populus tremula, an outbreeding forest tree species. We performed expression Quantitative Trait Locus (eQTL) mapping and identified 164,290 significant eQTLs associating 6,241 unique genes (eGenes) with 147,419 unique SNPs (eSNPs). We found approximately four times as many local as distant eQTLs, with local eQTLs having significantly higher effect sizes. eQTLs were primarily located in regulatory regions of genes (UTRs or flanking regions), regardless of whether they were local or distant. We used the gene expression data to infer a co-expression network and investigated the relationship between network topology, the genetic architecture of gene expression and signatures of selection. Within the co-expression network, eGenes were underrepresented in network module cores (hubs) and overrepresented in the periphery of the network, with a negative correlation between eQTL effect size and network connectivity. We additionally found that module core genes have experienced stronger selective constraint on coding and non-coding sequence, with connectivity associated with signatures of selection. Our integrated genetics and genomics results suggest that purifying selection is the primary mechanism underlying the genetic architecture of natural variation in gene expression assayed in flushing leaf buds of P. tremula and that connectivity within the co-expression network is linked to the strength of purifying selection.
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- Niklas Mähler
- Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
- Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Centre for Integrative Genetics, Faculty of Biosciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Department of Plant Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
- Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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Decker VHG, Bandau F, Gundale MJ, Cole CT, Albrectsen BR. Aspen phenylpropanoid genes' expression levels correlate with genets' tannin richness and vary both in responses to soil nitrogen and associations with phenolic profiles. TREE PHYSIOLOGY 2017; 37:270-279. [PMID: 27986954 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpw118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2016] [Accepted: 11/07/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Condensed tannin (CT) contents of European aspen (Populus tremula L.) vary among genotypes, and increases in nitrogen (N) availability generally reduce plants' tannin production in favor of growth, through poorly understood mechanisms. We hypothesized that intrinsic tannin production rates may co-vary with gene expression responses to soil N and resource allocation within the phenylpropanoid pathway (PPP). Thus, we examined correlations between soil N levels and both expression patterns of eight PPP genes (measured by quantitative-reverse transcription PCR) and foliar phenolic compounds (measured by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry) in young aspen genets with intrinsically extreme CT levels. Monitored phenolics included salicinoids, lignins, flavones, flavonols, CT precursors and CTs. The PPP genes were consistently expressed more strongly in high-CT trees. Low N supplements reduced expression of genes throughout the PPP in all genets, while high N doses restored expression of genes at the beginning and end of the pathway. These PPP changes were not reflected in pools of tannin precursors, but varying correlations between gene expression and foliar phenolic pools were detected in young and mature leaves, suggesting that processes linking gene expression and the resulting phenolics vary spatially and temporally. Precursor fluxes suggested that CT-related metabolic rate or sink controls are linked to intrinsic carbon allocation strategies associated with N responses. Overall, we found more negative correlations (indicative of allocation trade-offs) between PPP gene expression and phenolic products following N additions in low-CT plants than in high-CT plants. The tannin-related expression dynamics suggest that, in addition to defense, relative tannin levels may also be indicative of intraspecific variations in the way aspen genets respond to soil fertility.
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- Vicki H G Decker
- Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, UmeåSE 90187, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, UmeåSE 90187, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, UmeåSE 90183, Sweden
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- Division of Science and Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Morris, MN56267, USA
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, UmeåSE 90187, Sweden
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Stenberg JA, Muola A. How Should Plant Resistance to Herbivores Be Measured? FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:663. [PMID: 28491077 PMCID: PMC5405324 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2017] [Accepted: 04/11/2017] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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- Johan A. Stenberg
- Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesAlnarp, Sweden
- *Correspondence: Johan A. Stenberg
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- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesUppsala, Sweden
- Environmental and Marine Biology, Åbo Akademi UniversityTurku, Finland
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Pratt JD, Datu A, Tran T, Sheng DC, Mooney KA. Genetically based latitudinal clines in Artemisia californica drive parallel clines in arthropod communities. Ecology 2016; 98:79-91. [PMID: 27935026 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2015] [Revised: 06/25/2016] [Accepted: 08/31/2016] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Intraspecific variation in plant traits has been clearly shown to drive the structure of associated arthropod communities at the spatial scale of individual plant populations. Nevertheless, it is largely unknown whether plant trait variation among populations drives landscape-scale variation in arthropod communities, and how the strength of such plant genetic effects compares to, and interacts with, those of environmental variation. We documented the structure of arthropod communities on Artemisia californica for two consecutive years in a common garden of plants sourced from five populations along a 5° latitudinal gradient and grown under precipitation treatments approximating the four-fold difference between the north and south range margins for this species. Previous study of plant traits from this garden documented clinal genetic variation, suggesting local adaptation to this environmental gradient, as well as effects of precipitation manipulation that were consistent among populations (i.e., no genotype-by-environment interaction). Within the common garden, arthropod density, evenness, and diversity increased clinally with population source latitude, and arthropod community composition (i.e., species relative abundance) showed a north-south divide. The 2.6-fold cline of northward increase in arthropod density in the common garden was mirrored by a 6.4-fold increase in arthropod density on wild plants sampled along the species range. In contrast to the strong influence of plant genotype, the precipitation manipulation only influenced arthropod community composition, and plant genetic effects on arthropods operated independently of precipitation regime (no genotype-by-environment interaction). Accordingly, we conclude that the strongest driver of landscape-level variation in arthropod communities in this foundational plant species is not variation in the abiotic environment itself, but rather variation in plant traits underlain by the evolutionary process of plant local adaptation.
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- Jessica D Pratt
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Center for Environmental Biology, University of California, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, California, 92697, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Center for Environmental Biology, University of California, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, California, 92697, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Center for Environmental Biology, University of California, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, California, 92697, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Center for Environmental Biology, University of California, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, California, 92697, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Center for Environmental Biology, University of California, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, California, 92697, USA
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Genotypic Tannin Levels in Populus tremula Impact the Way Nitrogen Enrichment Affects Growth and Allocation Responses for Some Traits and Not for Others. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0140971. [PMID: 26488414 PMCID: PMC4619582 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2014] [Accepted: 10/03/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Plant intraspecific variability has been proposed as a key mechanism by which plants adapt to environmental change. In boreal forests where nitrogen availability is strongly limited, nitrogen addition happens indirectly through atmospheric N deposition and directly through industrial forest fertilization. These anthropogenic inputs of N have numerous environmental consequences, including shifts in plant species composition and reductions in plant species diversity. However, we know less about how genetic differences within plant populations determine how species respond to eutrophication in boreal forests. According to plant defense theories, nitrogen addition will cause plants to shift carbon allocation more towards growth and less to chemical defense, potentially enhancing vulnerability to antagonists. Aspens are keystone species in boreal forests that produce condensed tannins to serve as chemical defense. We conducted an experiment using ten Populus tremula genotypes from the Swedish Aspen Collection that express extreme levels of baseline investment into foliar condensed tannins. We investigated whether investment into growth and phenolic defense compounds in young plants varied in response to two nitrogen addition levels, corresponding to atmospheric N deposition and industrial forest fertilization. Nitrogen addition generally caused growth to increase, and tannin levels to decrease; however, individualistic responses among genotypes were found for height growth, biomass of specific tissues, root:shoot ratios, and tissue lignin and N concentrations. A genotype’s baseline ability to produce and store condensed tannins also influenced plant responses to N, although this effect was relatively minor. High-tannin genotypes tended to grow less biomass under low nitrogen levels and more at the highest fertilization level. Thus, the ability in aspen to produce foliar tannins is likely associated with a steeper reaction norm of growth responses, which suggests a higher plasticity to nitrogen addition, and potentially an advantage when adapting to higher concentrations of soil nitrogen.
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Robinson KM, Hauzy C, Loeuille N, Albrectsen BR. Relative impacts of environmental variation and evolutionary history on the nestedness and modularity of tree-herbivore networks. Ecol Evol 2015; 5:2898-915. [PMID: 26306175 PMCID: PMC4541994 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2015] [Revised: 05/05/2015] [Accepted: 05/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Nestedness and modularity are measures of ecological networks whose causative effects are little understood. We analyzed antagonistic plant–herbivore bipartite networks using common gardens in two contrasting environments comprised of aspen trees with differing evolutionary histories of defence against herbivores. These networks were tightly connected owing to a high level of specialization of arthropod herbivores that spend a large proportion of the life cycle on aspen. The gardens were separated by ten degrees of latitude with resultant differences in abiotic conditions. We evaluated network metrics and reported similar connectance between gardens but greater numbers of links per species in the northern common garden. Interaction matrices revealed clear nestedness, indicating subsetting of the bipartite interactions into specialist divisions, in both the environmental and evolutionary aspen groups, although nestedness values were only significant in the northern garden. Variation in plant vulnerability, measured as the frequency of herbivore specialization in the aspen population, was significantly partitioned by environment (common garden) but not by evolutionary origin of the aspens. Significant values of modularity were observed in all network matrices. Trait-matching indicated that growth traits, leaf morphology, and phenolic metabolites affected modular structure in both the garden and evolutionary groups, whereas extra-floral nectaries had little influence. Further examination of module configuration revealed that plant vulnerability explained considerable variance in web structure. The contrasting conditions between the two gardens resulted in bottom-up effects of the environment, which most strongly influenced the overall network architecture, however, the aspen groups with dissimilar evolutionary history also showed contrasting degrees of nestedness and modularity. Our research therefore shows that, while evolution does affect the structure of aspen–herbivore bipartite networks, the role of environmental variations is a dominant constraint.
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- Kathryn M Robinson
- Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences 901 83, Umeå, Sweden ; Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University 901 87, Umeå, Sweden
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- Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences of Paris, UMR7618, UPMC-CNRS 7 quai St Bernard, 75005, Paris, France
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- Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences of Paris, UMR7618, UPMC-CNRS 7 quai St Bernard, 75005, Paris, France
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University 901 87, Umeå, Sweden ; Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen Thorvaldsensvej 40, DK 1871, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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Costa M, Hauzy C, Loeuille N, Méléard S. Stochastic eco-evolutionary model of a prey-predator community. J Math Biol 2015; 72:573-622. [PMID: 26001744 DOI: 10.1007/s00285-015-0895-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2014] [Revised: 02/05/2015] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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We are interested in the impact of natural selection in a prey-predator community. We introduce an individual-based model of the community that takes into account both prey and predator phenotypes. Our aim is to understand the phenotypic coevolution of prey and predators. The community evolves as a multi-type birth and death process with mutations. We first consider the infinite particle approximation of the process without mutation. In this limit, the process can be approximated by a system of differential equations. We prove the existence of a unique globally asymptotically stable equilibrium under specific conditions on the interaction among prey individuals. When mutations are rare, the community evolves on the mutational scale according to a Markovian jump process. This process describes the successive equilibria of the prey-predator community and extends the polymorphic evolutionary sequence to a coevolutionary framework. We then assume that mutations have a small impact on phenotypes and consider the evolution of monomorphic prey and predator populations. The limit of small mutation steps leads to a system of two differential equations which is a version of the canonical equation of adaptive dynamics for the prey-predator coevolution. We illustrate these different limits with an example of prey-predator community that takes into account different prey defense mechanisms. We observe through simulations how these various prey strategies impact the community.
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- Manon Costa
- CMAP, École Polytechnique, CNRS UMR 7641, Route de Saclay, 91128, Palaiseau Cedex, France.
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- Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences-Paris (UPMC-CNRS-IRD-INRA-UPEC-Paris Diderot), Université Pierre et Marie Curie, UMR 7618, Paris, France
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- Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences-Paris (UPMC-CNRS-IRD-INRA-UPEC-Paris Diderot), Université Pierre et Marie Curie, UMR 7618, Paris, France
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- CMAP, École Polytechnique, CNRS UMR 7641, Route de Saclay, 91128, Palaiseau Cedex, France
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Where is the extended phenotype in the wild? The community composition of arthropods on mature oak trees does not depend on the oak genotype. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0115733. [PMID: 25635387 PMCID: PMC4321774 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2014] [Accepted: 12/01/2014] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Through a series of common garden experiments, it has been shown that heritable
phenotypic differences between individual trees can affect arthropod communities.
However, field studies under heterogeneous environmental conditions remain rare. In
the present study, we investigated the genetic constitution of 121 mature oak host
trees at different trophic levels from 10 sites across Bavaria, southern Germany and
their associated insect communities. A total of 23,576 individuals representing 395
species of beetles and true bugs were evaluated. In particular, we determined whether
the composition of arthropod communities is related to the oak genotype and whether
the strength of the relationships decreases from lower to higher trophic levels, such
as for phytophagous, xylophagous, zoophagous, and mycetophagous species. The genetic
differentiation of oaks was assessed using eight microsatellite markers. We found no
significant influence of the oak genotype on neither the full beetle and true bug
community nor on any of the analyzed trophic guilds. In contrast, the community
composition of the insects was highly related to the space and climate, such that the
community similarity decreased with increases in spatial distance and climatic
differences. The relationship with space and climate was much stronger in beetles
than in true bugs, particularly in mycetophagous species. Our results suggest that
spatial processes override the genetic effects of the host plant in structuring
arthropod communities on oak trees. Because we used neutral markers, we cannot
exclude the possibility that trait-specific markers may reveal a genetic imprint of
the foundation tree species on the composition of the arthropod community. However,
based on the strength of the spatial patterns in our data set, we assume that genetic
differences among oaks are less important in the structuring of arthropod
communities. Future whole-genome studies are required to draw a final conclusion.
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Zhang C, Vornam B, Volmer K, Prinz K, Kleemann F, Köhler L, Polle A, Finkeldey R. Genetic diversity in aspen and its relation to arthropod abundance. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2015; 5:806. [PMID: 25674097 PMCID: PMC4309117 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2014] [Accepted: 12/23/2014] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The ecological consequences of biodiversity have become a prominent public issue. Little is known on the effect of genetic diversity on ecosystem services. Here, a diversity experiment was established with European and North American aspen (Populus tremula, P. tremuloides) planted in plots representing either a single deme only or combinations of two, four and eight demes. The goals of this study were to explore the complex inter- and intraspecific genetic diversity of aspen and to then relate three measures for diversity (deme diversity, genetic diversity determined as Shannon index or as expected heterozygosity) to arthropod abundance. Microsatellite and AFLP markers were used to analyze the genetic variation patterns within and between the aspen demes and deme mixtures. Large differences were observed regarding the genetic diversity within demes. An analysis of molecular variance revealed that most of the total genetic diversity was found within demes, but the genetic differentiation among demes was also high. The complex patterns of genetic diversity and differentiation resulted in large differences of the genetic variation within plots. The average diversity increased from plots with only one deme to plots with two, four, and eight demes, respectively and separated plots with and without American aspen. To test whether intra- and interspecific diversity impacts on ecosystem services, arthropod abundance was determined. Increasing genetic diversity of aspen was related to increasing abundance of arthropods. However, the relationship was mainly driven by the presence of American aspen suggesting that species identity overrode the effect of intraspecific variation of European aspen.
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- Chunxia Zhang
- College of Forestry, Northwest A&F UniversityShaanxi, China
- Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding, Büsgen-Institute, Georg-August-Universität GöttingenGöttingen, Germany
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- Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding, Büsgen-Institute, Georg-August-Universität GöttingenGöttingen, Germany
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- Forest Botany and Tree Physiology, Büsgen-Institute, Georg-August-Universität GöttingenGöttingen, Germany
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- Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding, Büsgen-Institute, Georg-August-Universität GöttingenGöttingen, Germany
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- Forest Botany and Tree Physiology, Büsgen-Institute, Georg-August-Universität GöttingenGöttingen, Germany
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- Forest Botany and Tree Physiology, Büsgen-Institute, Georg-August-Universität GöttingenGöttingen, Germany
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- Forest Botany and Tree Physiology, Büsgen-Institute, Georg-August-Universität GöttingenGöttingen, Germany
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- Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding, Büsgen-Institute, Georg-August-Universität GöttingenGöttingen, Germany
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Heimonen K, Valtonen A, Kontunen-Soppela S, Keski-Saari S, Rousi M, Oksanen E, Roininen H. Colonization of a host tree by herbivorous insects under a changing climate. OIKOS 2014. [DOI: 10.1111/oik.01986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Kaisa Heimonen
- Dept of Biology; Univ. of Eastern Finland; PO Box 111, FI-80101 Joensuu Finland
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- Dept of Biology; Univ. of Eastern Finland; PO Box 111, FI-80101 Joensuu Finland
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- Dept of Biology; Univ. of Eastern Finland; PO Box 111, FI-80101 Joensuu Finland
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- Finnish Forest Research Inst., Vantaa Research Unit; PO Box 18, FI-01301 Vantaa Finland
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- Dept of Biology; Univ. of Eastern Finland; PO Box 111, FI-80101 Joensuu Finland
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- Dept of Biology; Univ. of Eastern Finland; PO Box 111, FI-80101 Joensuu Finland
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Gosney BJ, O′Reilly-Wapstra JM, Forster LG, Barbour RC, Iason GR, Potts BM. Genetic and ontogenetic variation in an endangered tree structures dependent arthropod and fungal communities. PLoS One 2014; 9:e114132. [PMID: 25469641 PMCID: PMC4254790 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2014] [Accepted: 10/15/2014] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Plant genetic and ontogenetic variation can significantly impact dependent fungal and arthropod communities. However, little is known of the relative importance of these extended genetic and ontogenetic effects within a species. Using a common garden trial, we compared the dependent arthropod and fungal community on 222 progeny from two highly differentiated populations of the endangered heteroblastic tree species, Eucalyptus morrisbyi. We assessed arthropod and fungal communities on both juvenile and adult foliage. The community variation was related to previous levels of marsupial browsing, as well as the variation in the physicochemical properties of leaves using near-infrared spectroscopy. We found highly significant differences in community composition, abundance and diversity parameters between eucalypt source populations in the common garden, and these were comparable to differences between the distinctive juvenile and adult foliage. The physicochemical properties assessed accounted for a significant percentage of the community variation but did not explain fully the community differences between populations and foliage types. Similarly, while differences in population susceptibility to a major marsupial herbivore may result in diffuse genetic effects on the dependent community, this still did not account for the large genetic-based differences in dependent communities between populations. Our results emphasize the importance of maintaining the populations of this rare species as separate management units, as not only are the populations highly genetically structured, this variation may alter the trajectory of biotic colonization of conservation plantings.
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- Benjamin J. Gosney
- School of Plant Science, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- National Center of Future Forest Industries (NCFFI), University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- School of Plant Science, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- National Center of Future Forest Industries (NCFFI), University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- School of Agricultural Science, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- School of Plant Science, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- The James Hutton Institute, Craigibuckler, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- School of Plant Science, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- National Center of Future Forest Industries (NCFFI), University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Robinson KM, Delhomme N, Mähler N, Schiffthaler B, Önskog J, Albrectsen BR, Ingvarsson PK, Hvidsten TR, Jansson S, Street NR. Populus tremula (European aspen) shows no evidence of sexual dimorphism. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2014; 14:276. [PMID: 25318822 PMCID: PMC4203875 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-014-0276-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2014] [Accepted: 10/06/2014] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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BACKGROUND Evolutionary theory suggests that males and females may evolve sexually dimorphic phenotypic and biochemical traits concordant with each sex having different optimal strategies of resource investment to maximise reproductive success and fitness. Such sexual dimorphism would result in sex biased gene expression patterns in non-floral organs for autosomal genes associated with the control and development of such phenotypic traits. RESULTS We examined morphological, biochemical and herbivory traits to test for sexually dimorphic resource allocation strategies within collections of sexually mature and immature Populus tremula (European aspen) trees. In addition we profiled gene expression in mature leaves of sexually mature wild trees using whole-genome oligonucleotide microarrays and RNA-Sequencing. CONCLUSIONS We found no evidence of sexual dimorphism or differential resource investment strategies between males and females in either sexually immature or mature trees. Similarly, single-gene differential expression and machine learning approaches revealed no evidence of large-scale sex biased gene expression. However, two significantly differentially expressed genes were identified from the RNA-Seq data, one of which is a robust diagnostic marker of sex in P. tremula.
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- Kathryn M Robinson
- />Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- />Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- />Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1432 Ås, Norway
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- />Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- />Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- />Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
- />Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, DK 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- />Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- />Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
- />Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1432 Ås, Norway
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- />Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- />Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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Keefover-Ring K, Ahnlund M, Abreu IN, Jansson S, Moritz T, Albrectsen BR. No evidence of geographical structure of salicinoid chemotypes within Populus tremula. PLoS One 2014; 9:e107189. [PMID: 25299342 PMCID: PMC4191948 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2014] [Accepted: 08/07/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Salicinoids are well-known defense compounds in salicaceous trees and careful screening at the population level is warranted to fully understand their diversity and function. European aspen, Populus tremula, is a foundation species in Eurasia and highly polymorphic in Sweden. We exhaustively surveyed 102 replicated genotypes from the Swedish Aspen collection (SwAsp) for foliar salicinoids using UHPLC-ESI-TOF/MS and identified nine novel compounds, bringing the total to 19 for this species. Salicinoid structure followed a modular architecture of a salicin skeleton with added side groups, alone or in combination. Two main moieties, 2'-cinnamoyl and 2'-acetyl, grouped the SwAsp population into four distinct chemotypes, and the relative allocation of salicinoids was remarkably constant between different environments, implying a highly channeled biosynthesis of these compounds. Slightly more than half of the SwAsp genotypes belonged to the cinnamoyl chemotype. A fraction synthesized the acetyl moiety alone (∼7%) or in combination with cinnamoyl (∼2%), and close to forty percent lacked either of the two characteristic moieties, and thus resemble P. tremuloides in their salicinoid profile. The two most abundant chemotypes were evenly distributed throughout Sweden, unlike geographical patterns reported for SwAsp phenology traits, plant defense genes, and herbivore community associations. Here we present the salicinoid characterization of the SwAsp collection as a resource for future studies of aspen chemical ecology, salicinoid biosynthesis, and genetics.
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- Ken Keefover-Ring
- Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark
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Bernhardsson C, Robinson KM, Abreu IN, Jansson S, Albrectsen BR, Ingvarsson PK. Geographic structure in metabolome and herbivore community co-occurs with genetic structure in plant defence genes. Ecol Lett 2013; 16:791-8. [DOI: 10.1111/ele.12114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2012] [Revised: 01/26/2013] [Accepted: 03/18/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Carolina Bernhardsson
- Umeå Plant Science Centre; Department of Ecology and Environmental Science; Umeå University; SE-901 87 Umeå Sweden
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- Umeå Plant Science Centre; Department of Plant Physiology; Umeå University; Umeå SE-901 87 Umeå Sweden
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- Umeå Plant Science Centre; Department of Plant Physiology; Umeå University; Umeå SE-901 87 Umeå Sweden
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- Umeå Plant Science Centre; Department of Plant Physiology; Umeå University; Umeå SE-901 87 Umeå Sweden
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- Umeå Plant Science Centre; Department of Plant Physiology; Umeå University; Umeå SE-901 87 Umeå Sweden
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences; Section for Plant Biochemistry; University of Copenhagen; Thorvaldsensvej 40 DK 1871 Frederiksberg Denmark
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- Umeå Plant Science Centre; Department of Ecology and Environmental Science; Umeå University; SE-901 87 Umeå Sweden
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