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Midgley JJ, Cramer MD. Unequal allocation between male versus female reproduction cannot explain extreme vegetative dimorphism in Aulax species (Cape Proteaceae). Sci Rep 2022; 12:1407. [PMID: 35082381 PMCID: PMC8792023 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-05558-4] [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: 09/21/2021] [Accepted: 01/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Female plants not only flower but also produce resource-rich seeds, fruits, and cones. Thus, it is generally considered that female plants allocate more resources to sexual reproduction than male plants and that this allocation difference can explain vegetative dimorphism, such as greater leaf size in females. We found significant sexual vegetative differences in the dioecious and serotinous species, Aulax umbellata and A. cancellata. Plant height, annual branch length and canopy spread were greater in males whereas leaf size, branch thickness and branch number were greater in females. Sex ratios and basal stem area were, however, equal in the sexes. Equal sex ratios imply equal allocation to sexual reproduction and equal stem areas imply equal resource use and biomass, and thus allocation to vegetative growth. Given equal allocation to reproduction and resource use, we suggest that the vegetative dimorphism is driven by intra-male-competition to be more visually conspicuous to pollinators. This implies that plant architecture is both a vegetative and a reproductive trait.
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Yang D, Zhang Y, Zhou D, Zhang YJ, Peng G, Tyree MT. The hydraulic architecture of an arborescent monocot: ontogeny-related adjustments in vessel size and leaf area compensate for increased resistance. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2021; 231:273-284. [PMID: 33621370 DOI: 10.1111/nph.17294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2020] [Accepted: 02/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Bamboos are arborescent monocotyledons that have no secondary growth, but can continually produce conduits with diameters appropriate to the current size of the plant. Here, we studied bamboo hydraulic architecture to address the mechanisms involved in compensating for the increase in hydraulic resistance during ontogeny. We measured the hydraulic weighted vessel diameters (Dh ) at different distances from the apex along the stem of Bambusa textilis. The hydraulic resistance of different components and individuals of different heights were quantified using the high-pressure flowmeter method. The Dh showed tip-to-base widening with a scaling exponent in the range of those reported for trees. Although theoretical hydraulic conductivity decreased from base-to-tip, leaf-specific conductivity did not change. Leaves contributed the most to the whole-shoot hydraulic resistance, followed by the leaf-bearing branches. Roots contributed c. 13% to whole-plant resistance. Interestingly, taller individuals showed lower whole-shoot resistance owing to an increased number of resistances in parallel (side-branches), while leaf-specific resistance was independent of plant size. Tip-to-base vessel widening and height-independent constant leaf-specific conductance could be mechanisms for hydraulic optimization in B. textilis. Similar patterns have also been found in woody plants with secondary growth, but this bamboo exhibits them without secondary growth.
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- Dongmei Yang
- College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang, 321004, China
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- College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang, 321004, China
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- College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang, 321004, China
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- School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine, Orono, ME, 04469, USA
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- College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang, 321004, China
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- College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang, 321004, China
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Singhal S, Roddy AB, DiVittorio C, Sanchez-Amaya A, Henriquez CL, Brodersen CR, Fehlberg S, Zapata F. Diversification, disparification and hybridization in the desert shrubs Encelia. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2021; 230:1228-1241. [PMID: 33460447 DOI: 10.1111/nph.17212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2020] [Accepted: 01/10/2021] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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There are multiple hypotheses for the spectacular plant diversity found in deserts. We explore how different factors, including the roles of ecological opportunity and selection, promote diversification and disparification in Encelia, a lineage of woody plants in the deserts of the Americas. Using a nearly complete species-level phylogeny based on double-digest restriction-aided sequencing along with a broad set of phenotypic traits, we estimate divergence times and diversification rates, identify instances of hybridization, quantify trait disparity and assess phenotypic divergence across environmental gradients. We show that Encelia originated and diversified recently (mid-Pleistocene) and rapidly, with rates comparable to notable adaptive radiations in plants. Encelia probably originated in the hot deserts of North America, with subsequent diversification across steep environmental gradients. We uncover multiple instances of gene flow between species. The radiation of Encelia is characterized by fast rates of phenotypic evolution, trait lability and extreme disparity across environments and between species pairs with overlapping geographic ranges. Encelia exemplifies how interspecific gene flow in combination with high trait lability can enable exceptionally fast diversification and disparification across steep environmental gradients.
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- Sonal Singhal
- Department of Biology, CSU Dominguez Hills, 1000 E Victoria Street, Carson, CA, 90747, USA
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- Institute of Environment, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 33133, USA
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- University of California Institute for México and the United States, University of California, 3324 Olmsted Hall, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
- Pinecrest Research Corporation, 5627 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 420, Oakland, CA, 94609, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 612 Charles E. Young Dr. South, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 612 Charles E. Young Dr. South, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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- School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA
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- Research, Conservation, and Collections, Desert Botanical Garden, 1201 N Galvin Parkway, Phoenix, AZ, 85008, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 612 Charles E. Young Dr. South, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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Olson ME, Anfodillo T, Gleason SM, McCulloh KA. Tip-to-base xylem conduit widening as an adaptation: causes, consequences, and empirical priorities. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2021; 229:1877-1893. [PMID: 32984967 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2020] [Accepted: 08/14/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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In the stems of terrestrial vascular plants studied to date, the diameter of xylem water-conducting conduits D widens predictably with distance from the stem tip L approximating D ∝ Lb , with b ≈ 0.2. Because conduit diameter is central for conductance, it is essential to understand the cause of this remarkably pervasive pattern. We give reason to suspect that tip-to-base conduit widening is an adaptation, favored by natural selection because widening helps minimize the increase in hydraulic resistance that would otherwise occur as an individual stem grows longer and conductive path length increases. Evidence consistent with adaptation includes optimality models that predict the 0.2 exponent. The fact that this prediction can be made with a simple model of a single capillary, omitting much biological detail, itself makes numerous important predictions, e.g. that pit resistance must scale isometrically with conduit resistance. The idea that tip-to-base conduit widening has a nonadaptive cause, with temperature, drought, or turgor limiting the conduit diameters that plants are able to produce, is less consistent with the data than an adaptive explanation. We identify empirical priorities for testing the cause of tip-to-base conduit widening and underscore the need to study plant hydraulic systems leaf to root as integrated wholes.
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- Mark E Olson
- Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Tercer Circuito s/n de Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City, 04510, Mexico
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- Department Territorio e Sistemi Agro-Forestali, University of Padova, Legnaro (PD), 35020, Italy
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- Water Management and Systems Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Fort Collins, CO, 80526, USA
- Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA
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Soriano D, Echeverría A, Anfodillo T, Rosell JA, Olson ME. Hydraulic traits vary as the result of tip-to-base conduit widening in vascular plants. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2020; 71:4232-4242. [PMID: 32219309 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraa157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2019] [Accepted: 03/26/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Plant hydraulic traits are essential metrics for characterizing variation in plant function, but they vary markedly with plant size and position in a plant. We explore the potential effect of conduit widening on variation in hydraulic traits along the stem. We examined three species that differ in conduit diameter at the stem base for a given height (Moringa oleifera, Casimiroa edulis, and Pinus ayacahuite). We made anatomical and hydraulic measurements at different distances from the stem tip, constructed vulnerability curves, and examined the safety-efficiency trade-off with height-standardized data. Our results showed that segment-specific hydraulic resistance varied predictably along the stem, paralleling changes in mean conduit diameter and total number of conduits. The Huber value and leaf specific conductivity also varied depending on the sampling point. Vulnerability curves were markedly less noisy with height standardization, making the vulnerability-efficiency trade-off clearer. Because conduits widen predictably along the stem, taking height and distance from the tip into account provides a way of enhancing comparability and interpretation of hydraulic traits. Our results suggest the need for rethinking hydraulic sampling for comparing plant functional differences and strategies across individuals.
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- Diana Soriano
- Departamento de Botánica, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CP, CDMX, México
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- Departamento de Botánica, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CP, CDMX, México
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- Department Territorio e Sistemi Agro-Forestali, University of Padova, Legnaro (PD), Italy
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- Laboratorio Nacional de Ciencias de la Sostenibilidad, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CDMX, México
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- Departamento de Botánica, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CP, CDMX, México
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Olson M, Rosell JA, Martínez‐Pérez C, León‐Gómez C, Fajardo A, Isnard S, Cervantes‐Alcayde MA, Echeverría A, Figueroa‐Abundiz VA, Segovia‐Rivas A, Trueba S, Vázquez‐Segovia K. Xylem vessel‐diameter–shoot‐length scaling: ecological significance of porosity types and other traits. ECOL MONOGR 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Mark Olson
- Instituto de Biología Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Tercer Circuito s/n de Ciudad Universitaria Ciudad de México 04510 México
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- Laboratorio Nacional de Ciencias de la Sostenibilidad Instituto de Ecología Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Tercer Circuito s/n de Ciudad Universitaria Ciudad de México 04510 México
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- Instituto de Biología Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Tercer Circuito s/n de Ciudad Universitaria Ciudad de México 04510 México
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- Instituto de Biología Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Tercer Circuito s/n de Ciudad Universitaria Ciudad de México 04510 México
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- Centro de Investigación en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia (CIEP) Camino Baguales s/n Coyhaique 5951601 Chile
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- Botanique et Modélisation de l’Architecture de Plantes de des Végétations Institut de Recherche pourle Développement Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique Université de Montpellier Montpellier 34398 France
- Botanique et Modélisation de l’Architecture de Plantes de des Végétations Institut de Recherche pourle Développement Herbier de Nouvelle‐Caledonia Nouméa 98848 New Caledonia
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- Instituto de Biología Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Tercer Circuito s/n de Ciudad Universitaria Ciudad de México 04510 México
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- Instituto de Biología Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Tercer Circuito s/n de Ciudad Universitaria Ciudad de México 04510 México
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- Instituto de Biología Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Tercer Circuito s/n de Ciudad Universitaria Ciudad de México 04510 México
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- Instituto de Biología Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Tercer Circuito s/n de Ciudad Universitaria Ciudad de México 04510 México
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- Botanique et Modélisation de l’Architecture de Plantes de des Végétations Institut de Recherche pourle Développement Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique Université de Montpellier Montpellier 34398 France
- Botanique et Modélisation de l’Architecture de Plantes de des Végétations Institut de Recherche pourle Développement Herbier de Nouvelle‐Caledonia Nouméa 98848 New Caledonia
- School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Yale University New Haven Connecticut 06511 USA
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- Laboratorio Nacional de Ciencias de la Sostenibilidad Instituto de Ecología Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Tercer Circuito s/n de Ciudad Universitaria Ciudad de México 04510 México
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