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Falik O, Hoffmann I, Novoplansky A. A novel type of neighbour perception elicits reproductive plasticity in an annual plant with a mixed mating system. Plant Biol (Stuttg) 2024; 26:415-420. [PMID: 38315483 DOI: 10.1111/plb.13624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2023] [Accepted: 01/17/2024] [Indexed: 02/07/2024]
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Plants display various forms of phenotypic plasticity in anticipation of changing conditions, many of which are influenced by information obtained from neighbouring plants. Here, we tested the hypothesis that cleistogamic Lamium amplexicaule plants can adaptively modify production of chasmogamous (CH) and cleistogamous (CL) flowers based on the perception of conspecific neighbours. The production and proportion of CH and CL flowers was examined in individual L. amplexicaule grown at varying densities or treated with root leachates from plants grown at different densities. When growing at high density or treated with root leachates from high-density pots, L. amplexicaule increased production of more expensive, potentially outcrossing CH flowers. In contrast, single plants or plants treated with root leachates from empty pots or single-source plants predominantly developed cheaper, self-pollinated CL flowers. The results demonstrate a novel root-based neighbour-perception modality that enables plants to adaptively adjust production of CH and CL flowers in response to the presence of potential reproductive partners. Further research is needed to explore the broader ecological implications of this novel interplant cueing on reproductive bet-hedging and plasticity in natural settings, as well as to identify the involved cues and their mode of operation.
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- O Falik
- Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben Gurion, Israel
- Achva Academic College, Arugot, Israel
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- Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben Gurion, Israel
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- Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben Gurion, Israel
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Strelin MM, Diggle PK, Aizen MA. Flower heterochrony and crop yield. Trends Plant Sci 2023; 28:1360-1369. [PMID: 37612211 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2023.07.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2023] [Revised: 06/17/2023] [Accepted: 07/28/2023] [Indexed: 08/25/2023]
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Crop improvement has focused on enhancing yield, nutrient content, harvestability, and stress resistance using a trait-centered reductionist approach. This has downplayed the fact that plants are developmentally integrated and respond coordinately and predictably to genetic and environmental variation, with potential consequences for food production. Crop yield, including both fruit/seed production and the possibility of generating hybrid crop varieties, is highly dependent on flower morphology and sex, which, in turn, can be profoundly affected by slight shifts in the timing and rate of flower organ development (i.e., flower heterochrony). We argue that understanding the genetic and environmental bases of flower heterochrony and their effect on flower morphology and sex in cultivated plants and in their wild relatives can facilitate crop improvement.
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- Marina M Strelin
- Grupo de Investigación en Ecología de la Polinización, Laboratorio Ecotono, INIBIOMA (CONICET - Universidad Nacional del Comahue), San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
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- Grupo de Investigación en Ecología de la Polinización, Laboratorio Ecotono, INIBIOMA (CONICET - Universidad Nacional del Comahue), San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina
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Soto TY, Rojas-Gutierrez JD, Oakley CG. Can heterosis and inbreeding depression explain the maintenance of outcrossing in a cleistogamous perennial? Am J Bot 2023; 110:e16240. [PMID: 37672596 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.16240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2023] [Revised: 08/17/2023] [Accepted: 08/18/2023] [Indexed: 09/08/2023]
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PREMISE What maintains mixed mating is an evolutionary enigma. Cleistogamy-the production of both potentially outcrossing chasmogamous and obligately selfing cleistogamous flowers on the same individual plant-is an excellent system to study the costs of selfing. Inbreeding depression can prevent the evolution of greater selfing within populations, and heterosis in crosses between populations may further tip the balance in favor of outcrossing. Few empirical estimates of inbreeding depression and heterosis in the same system exist for cleistogamous species. METHODS We investigate the potential costs of selfing by quantifying inbreeding depression and heterosis in three populations of the cleistogamous perennial Ruellia humilis Nutt (Acanthaceae). We performed three types of hand-pollinations-self, outcross-within, and outcross-between populations-and measured seed number, germination, total flower production, and estimated cumulative fitness for the resulting progeny in a greenhouse experiment. RESULTS We found moderate inbreeding depression for cumulative fitness (<30%) in two populations, but outbreeding depression for crosses within a third population (-26%). For between-population crosses, there was weak to modest heterosis (11-47%) in two of the population combinations, but modest to strong outbreeding depression (-21 to -71%) in the other four combinations. CONCLUSIONS Neither inbreeding depression nor heterosis was of sufficient magnitude to explain the continued production of chasmogamous flowers given the relative energetic advantage of cleistogamous flowers previously estimated for these populations. Outbreeding depression either within or between populations makes the maintenance of chasmogamous flowers even harder to explain. More information is needed on the genetic basis of cleistogamy to resolve this conundrum.
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- Tatyana Y Soto
- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology and the Center for Plant Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology and the Center for Plant Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology and the Center for Plant Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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Nanape AB, Haine HM, Sugimoto K, Kobayashi F, Oono Y, Handa H, Komatsuda T, Kakeda K. Mutations within the miR172 target site of wheat AP2 homoeologs regulate lodicule size and rachis internode length. Breed Sci 2023; 73:401-407. [PMID: 38106507 PMCID: PMC10722097 DOI: 10.1270/jsbbs.23019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2023] [Accepted: 07/10/2023] [Indexed: 12/19/2023]
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Closed fertilization in flowers, or cleistogamy, reduces the risk of fungal infection in Triticeae crops. In barley (Hordeum vulgare), cleistogamy is determined by a single recessive gene, cly1, which results from a single nucleotide polymorphism within the microRNA172 target site of the Apetala2 (AP2) transcription factor gene. The recessive cly1 allele negatively regulates the development of lodicules, keeping florets closed at anthesis. However, cleistogamy is not evident in hexaploid wheat (Triticum aestivum) cultivars. This study aimed at identifying mutations in wheat AP2 orthologs by ethyl methane sulfonate-induced mutagenesis and high-resolution melt analysis. Although flowers of AP2 mutants induced in the A and D genomes opened at anthesis, their lodicule size was significantly smaller, especially in the direction of depth, than that of wild-type plants. One of the mutants that carried a nucleotide replacement in AP2 from the D genome produced a compact spike caused by a substantial decrease in rachis internode length, analogous to the barley dense spike. Cleistogamous hexaploid wheat might be generated by combining effective mutant alleles of AP2-homoeologous genes.
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- Agetha Bigie Nanape
- Graduate School of Bioresources, Mie University, 1577 Kurimamachiya-cho, Tsu, Mie 514-8507, Japan
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- Graduate School of Bioresources, Mie University, 1577 Kurimamachiya-cho, Tsu, Mie 514-8507, Japan
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- Institute of Crop Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), 2-1-2 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8518, Japan
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- Institute of Crop Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), 2-1-2 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8518, Japan
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- Institute of Crop Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), 2-1-2 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8518, Japan
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- Institute of Crop Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), 2-1-2 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8518, Japan
- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University, 1-5 Shimogamohangi-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8522, Japan
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- Institute of Crop Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), 2-1-2 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8518, Japan
- Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences (SAAS), Crop Research Institute, 202 Gongyebei Road, Licheng District, Jinan, Shandong 250100, China
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- Graduate School of Bioresources, Mie University, 1577 Kurimamachiya-cho, Tsu, Mie 514-8507, Japan
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Cheplick GP. Spatiotemporal variation of chasmogamy and cleistogamy in a native perennial grass: fecundity, reproductive allocation and allometry. AoB Plants 2023; 15:plad020. [PMID: 37197713 PMCID: PMC10184453 DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plad020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2022] [Accepted: 04/28/2023] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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It is difficult to assess the relative variability or stability of chasmogamous (CH) and cleistogamous (CL) reproduction in perennial herbs with mixed mating because long-term data in natural populations are unavailable. Here, the aim was to quantify and compare spatial (between-habitat) and temporal (among-year) variation in CH and CL reproduction over 5 years in two subpopulations of the native perennial grass Danthonia compressa. This species produces CH spikelets on terminal panicles in early summer, while axillary CL spikelets, including a basal cleistogene, mature into the autumn. Flowering tillers were collected from a sunny woodland edge and an adjacent shady interior habitat for 5 consecutive years (2017-21). Seed set, fecundity, seed mass and biomass allocation were recorded for the two floral types along with tiller vegetative mass. Bivariate line fitting was used for allometric analysis of CH and CL fecundity. Seed set, fecundity, mass per seed and allocation to seeds differed between floral types and showed significant variation between habitats and among years. Seed set and fecundity in CH panicles were greater than that of axillary CL panicles in most years. Tiller mass positively affected axillary CL seed production and mass of the basal cleistogene. Fecundity and allocation among years were more variable for CH compared to CL reproduction. High seed set and fecundity of CH spikelets suggest that pollination does not limit reproduction via chasmogamy. Late maturation of axillary CL spikelets provides additional fecundity, especially in larger plants along sunny woodland edges. The heavy cleistogene at the tiller base could be important to population persistence, analogous to the axillary bud bank of other perennial grasses that are not cleistogamous. The spatiotemporal stability of CL reproduction underscores the ecological significance of cleistogamy to reproductive fitness.
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Amer WM, Al Shaye NA, Hassan MO, Khalaf MH. Heteroblastic Inflorescence of Lamium amplexicaule L. in Egyptian Flora. Plants (Basel) 2023; 12:1028. [PMID: 36903891 PMCID: PMC10005391 DOI: 10.3390/plants12051028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2023] [Revised: 02/16/2023] [Accepted: 02/19/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Lamium amplexicaule L. (Family: Lamiaceae) is a cosmopolitan weed whose eradication is challenging. The phenoplasticity of this species is related to its heteroblastic inflorescence, which has not received adequate research worldwide in its morphological and genetic aspects. This inflorescence hosts two flower types, a cleistogamous (CL: closed flower) and a chasmogamous (CH: opened flower). This species subjected to detailed investigation is a model species to clarify: (1) the existence of the CL and CH flowers in relation to the time and individual plants. (2) the predominant flower morphs in Egypt. (3) the morphological and genetic variability between these morphs. Among the novel data retrieved from this work is the Presence of this species in three distinct morphs coexisting during winter. These morphs showed remarkable phenoplasticity, particularly in flower organs. Significant differences were observed between the three morphs in pollen fertility, nutlets productivity and sculpture, flowering time, and seed viability. These differences were extended to the genetic profile of these three morphs assessed by the inter simple sequence repeats (ISSRs) and start codon targeted (SCoT). This work highlights the urgent need to study the heteroblastic inflorescence of crop weeds to facilitate its eradication.
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- Wafaa M. Amer
- Department of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza 12613, Egypt
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, P.O. Box 84428, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef 62521, Egypt
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- Department of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef 62521, Egypt
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Heywood JS, Michalski JS, McCann BK, Andres KJ, Hall AR, Hartman AD, Middleton TC, Chiles A, Dewey SE, Miller CA. The potential for floral evolution in response to competing selection pressures following the loss of hawkmoth pollination in Ruellia humilis. Am J Bot 2022; 109:1875-1892. [PMID: 36063430 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.16063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2022] [Revised: 07/26/2022] [Accepted: 07/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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PREMISE In the absence of hawkmoth pollinators, chasmogamous (CH) flowers of Ruellia humilis self-pollinate by two secondary mechanisms. Other floral visitors might exert selection on CH floral traits to restore outcrossing, but at the same time preferential predation of CH seeds generates selection to increase the allocation of resources to cleistogamous (CL) flowers. METHODS To assess the potential for an evolutionary response to these competing selection pressures, we estimated additive genetic variances ( σ A 2 ${\sigma }_{{\rm{A}}}^{2}$ ) and covariances for 14 reproductive traits and three fitness components in a Missouri population lacking hawkmoth pollinators. RESULTS We found significant σ A 2 ${\sigma }_{{\rm{A}}}^{2}$ for all 11 floral traits and two measures of resource allocation to CL flowers, indicating the potential for a short-term response to selection on most reproductive traits. Selection generated by seed predators is predicted to increase the percentage of CL flowers by 0.24% per generation, and mean stigma-anther separation is predicted to decrease as a correlated response, increasing the fraction of plants that engage in prior selfing. However, the initial response to this selection is opposed by strong directional dominance. CONCLUSIONS The predicted evolutionary decrease in the number of CH flowers available for potential outcrossing, combined with the apparent preclusion of potential diurnal pollinators by the pollen-harvesting activities of sweat bees, suggest that 100% cleistogamy is the likely outcome of evolution in the absence of hawkmoths. However, rare mutations with large effects, such as delaying budbreak until after sunrise, could provide pathways for the restoration of outcrossing that are not reachable by gradual quantitative-genetic evolution.
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- John S Heywood
- Biology Department, Missouri State University, 901 S National Ave., Springfield, MO, 65897, USA
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- Biology Department, Missouri State University, 901 S National Ave., Springfield, MO, 65897, USA
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- Biology Department, Missouri State University, 901 S National Ave., Springfield, MO, 65897, USA
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- Biology Department, Missouri State University, 901 S National Ave., Springfield, MO, 65897, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, 215 Tower Rd., Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Biology Department, Missouri State University, 901 S National Ave., Springfield, MO, 65897, USA
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- Biology Department, Missouri State University, 901 S National Ave., Springfield, MO, 65897, USA
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- Biology Department, Missouri State University, 901 S National Ave., Springfield, MO, 65897, USA
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- Biology Department, Missouri State University, 901 S National Ave., Springfield, MO, 65897, USA
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- Biology Department, Missouri State University, 901 S National Ave., Springfield, MO, 65897, USA
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- Biology Department, Missouri State University, 901 S National Ave., Springfield, MO, 65897, USA
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Tackett M, Berg C, Simmonds T, Lopez O, Brown J, Ruggiero R, Weber J. Breeding system and geospatial variation shape the population genetics of Triodanis perfoliata. Ecol Evol 2022; 12:e9382. [PMID: 36248672 PMCID: PMC9547245 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2022] [Revised: 08/25/2022] [Accepted: 09/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Both intrinsic and extrinsic forces work together to shape connectivity and genetic variation in populations across the landscape. Here we explored how geography, breeding system traits, and environmental factors influence the population genetic patterns of Triodanis perfoliata, a widespread mix‐mating annual plant in the contiguous US. By integrating population genomic data with spatial analyses and modeling the relationship between a breeding system and genetic diversity, we illustrate the complex ways in which these forces shape genetic variation. Specifically, we used 4705 single nucleotide polymorphisms to assess genetic diversity, structure, and evolutionary history among 18 populations. Populations with more obligately selfing flowers harbored less genetic diversity (π: R2 = .63, p = .01, n = 9 populations), and we found significant population structuring (FST = 0.48). Both geographic isolation and environmental factors played significant roles in predicting the observed genetic diversity: we found that corridors of suitable environments appear to facilitate gene flow between populations, and that environmental resistance is correlated with increased genetic distance between populations. Last, we integrated our genetic results with species distribution modeling to assess likely patterns of connectivity among our study populations. Our landscape and evolutionary genetic results suggest that T. perfoliata experienced a complex demographic and evolutionary history, particularly in the center of its distribution. As such, there is no singular mechanism driving this species' evolution. Together, our analyses support the hypothesis that the breeding system, geography, and environmental variables shape the patterns of diversity and connectivity of T. perfoliata in the US.
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- Morgan Tackett
- Neuroscience Graduate ProgramUniversity of Oklahoma Health Sciences CenterOklahoma CityOklahomaUSA
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- Division of Biological SciencesUniversity of MontanaMissoulaMontanaUSA
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- School of Biological SciencesSouthern Illinois University, CarbondaleCarbondaleIllinoisUSA
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- Department of BiologySoutheast Missouri State UniversityCape GirardeauMissouriUSA
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- School of Biological SciencesSouthern Illinois University, CarbondaleCarbondaleIllinoisUSA
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- Department of BiologySoutheast Missouri State UniversityCape GirardeauMissouriUSA
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- School of Biological SciencesSouthern Illinois University, CarbondaleCarbondaleIllinoisUSA
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Meyer EM, Swift JF, Bassüner B, Smith SA, Menges ES, Oberle B, Edwards CE. Understanding how an amphicarpic species with a mixed mating system responds to fire: a population genetic approach. AoB Plants 2021; 13:plab067. [PMID: 34858568 PMCID: PMC8633637 DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plab067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2021] [Accepted: 10/19/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Amphicarpic plants produce both above-ground and below-ground seeds. Because below-ground seeds are protected in the soil and may maintain viability when above-ground conditions are stressful, they were proposed as an adaptation to recolonize a site after disturbance. However, whether below-ground seeds are the main colonizers after a disturbance remains unknown. Our goal was to understand whether recolonization by an amphicarpic species after fire was accomplished primarily through germination of seeds produced above-ground or below-ground. We investigated Polygala lewtonii, an amphicarpic, perennial species endemic to fire-prone Florida sandhill and scrub, where fire kills plants but subsequently increases recruitment and population sizes. Polygala lewtonii produces three flower types: above-ground chasmogamous flowers and above-ground and below-ground cleistogamous flowers, with previous research demonstrating chasmogamous flowers produce a much greater proportion of seeds than cleistogamous flowers. We quantified outcrossing in seeds produced by chasmogamous flowers to determine whether it differed from the 100 % self-fertilized below-ground seeds. Approximately 25 % of seeds from chasmogamous flowers showed evidence of cross-pollination. Assuming that chasmogamous flowers produce the majority of the above-ground seeds, as was shown previously, this indicates it is possible to differentiate between germination by above-ground versus below-ground seeds in post-fire colonization. We next compared genetic diversity, admixture, inbreeding and population genetic structure pre- and post-fire. If fire promoted germination of chasmogamous seeds, heterozygosity and admixture would increase, and genetic structure and inbreeding would decrease. Instead, inbreeding and genetic structure increased and admixture decreased, suggesting that the below-ground selfed seeds (with limited dispersal ability) increased their contribution to the population after fire, possibly because fire reduced above-ground seed viability. Additionally, new alleles not found previously in range-wide analyses emerged from the seed bank post-fire. These results suggest that amphicarpy is a powerful adaptation to preserve genetic variation, maintain adaptive potential and promote rapid post-fire colonization.
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- Elena M Meyer
- Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
- Division of Natural Sciences, New College of Florida, 5800 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota, FL 34243, USA
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- Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Present address: Department of Biology, Saint Louis University, 1008 Spring Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Plant Ecology Program, Archbold Biological Station, 123 Main Drive, Venus, FL 33960, USA
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- Plant Ecology Program, Archbold Biological Station, 123 Main Drive, Venus, FL 33960, USA
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- Division of Natural Sciences, New College of Florida, 5800 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota, FL 34243, USA
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- Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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Mackin HC, Shek KL, Thornton TE, Evens KC, Hallett LM, McGuire KL, DeMarche ML, Roy BA. The 'black box' of plant demography: how do seed type, climate and seed fungal communities affect grass seed germination? New Phytol 2021; 231:2319-2332. [PMID: 34091913 DOI: 10.1111/nph.17532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2021] [Accepted: 05/23/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Demographic studies measure drivers of plant fecundity including seed production and survival, but few address both abiotic and biotic drivers of germination such as variation in climate among sites, population density, maternal plants, seed type and fungal pathogen abundance. We examined germination and microbial communities of seeds of Danthonia californica, which are either chasmogamous (external, wind-pollinated) or cleistogamous (internal, self-fertilized) and Festuca roemeri, which are solely chasmogamous. Seed populations were sourced across environmental gradients. We tested germination and used high-throughput sequencing to characterize seed fungal community structure. For F. roemeri, maternal plants significantly influenced germination as did climate and pathogens; germination increased from wetter, cooler sites. For D. californica, the main drivers of germination were maternal plant, seed type and pathogens; on average, more chasmogamous seeds germinated. Fungal communities depended largely on seed type, with fewer fungi associated with cleistogamous seeds, but the communities also depended on site factors such as vapor pressure deficit, plant density and whether the seeds had germinated. Putative pathogens that were negatively correlated with germination were more abundant for both D. californica and F. roemeri chasmogamous seeds than D. californica cleistogamous seeds. In D. californica, cleistogamous and chasmogamous seeds contain vastly different fungal communities.
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- Hunter C Mackin
- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 97403, USA
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 97403, USA
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 97403, USA
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 97403, USA
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 97403, USA
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 97403, USA
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Balboa, Ancon, Panama
- Environmental Studies Program, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 97403, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 97403, USA
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Joly S, Schoen DJ. Repeated evolution of a reproductive polyphenism in plants is strongly associated with bilateral flower symmetry. Curr Biol 2021; 31:1515-1520.e3. [PMID: 33539770 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2020] [Revised: 11/03/2020] [Accepted: 01/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Polyphenisms are a special type of phenotypic plasticity in which the products of development are not continuous but instead are separate and distinct phenotypes produced in the same genetic background. One of the most widespread polyphenisms in the flowering plants is cleistogamy, in which the same individual plant produces both open, cross-pollinated flowers as well as highly reduced and closed, self-pollinated (cleistogamous) flowers.1-5 Cleistogamy is not a rare evolutionary phenomenon. It has evolved independently at least 41 times.1 But what favors the evolution of cleistogamy is still largely unknown.1 Darwin6 proposed a hypothesis that has never been properly tested. He observed that cleistogamy is more common in taxa with bilaterally symmetric (zygomorphic) flowers than in those with radially symmetric (actinomorphic) flowers. Moreover, Darwin suggested that cleistogamous flowers help to ensure pollination, which he postulated is less certain in zygomorphic taxa that rely on more specialized groups of pollinators. Here, we combined the largest datasets on floral symmetry and cleistogamy and used phylogenetic approaches to show that cleistogamy is indeed disproportionately associated with zygomorphic flowers and that zygomorphic species are more likely to evolve cleistogamy than actinomorphic species. We also show that zygomorphic species are less capable of autonomous open-flower self-pollination (lower autofertility), suggesting that selection of cleistogamy via reproductive assurance in zygomorphic taxa could help account for Darwin's observation. Our results provide support for the hypothesis that polyphenisms are favored when organisms encounter contrasting environments.
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Zhang J, Wu F, Yan Q, John UP, Cao M, Xu P, Zhang Z, Ma T, Zong X, Li J, Liu R, Zhang Y, Zhao Y, Kanzana G, Lv Y, Nan Z, Spangenberg G, Wang Y. The genome of Cleistogenes songorica provides a blueprint for functional dissection of dimorphic flower differentiation and drought adaptability. Plant Biotechnol J 2021; 19:532-547. [PMID: 32964579 PMCID: PMC7955882 DOI: 10.1111/pbi.13483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2020] [Accepted: 09/13/2020] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Cleistogenes songorica (2n = 4x = 40) is a desert grass with a unique dimorphic flowering mechanism and an ability to survive extreme drought. Little is known about the genetics underlying drought tolerance and its reproductive adaptability. Here, we sequenced and assembled a high-quality chromosome-level C. songorica genome (contig N50 = 21.28 Mb). Complete assemblies of all telomeres, and of ten chromosomes were derived. C. songorica underwent a recent tetraploidization (~19 million years ago) and four major chromosomal rearrangements. Expanded genes were significantly enriched in fatty acid elongation, phenylpropanoid biosynthesis, starch and sucrose metabolism, and circadian rhythm pathways. By comparative transcriptomic analysis we found that conserved drought tolerance related genes were expanded. Transcription of CsMYB genes was associated with differential development of chasmogamous and cleistogamous flowers, as well as drought tolerance. Furthermore, we found that regulation modules encompassing miRNA, transcription factors and target genes are involved in dimorphic flower development, validated by overexpression of CsAP2_9 and its targeted miR172 in rice. Our findings enable further understanding of the mechanisms of drought tolerance and flowering in C. songorica, and provide new insights into the adaptability of native grass species in evolution, along with potential resources for trait improvement in agronomically important species.
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- Jiyu Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro‐ecosystemsKey Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsEngineering Research Center of Grassland Industry, Ministry of EducationCollege of Pastoral Agriculture Science and TechnologyLanzhou UniversityLanzhouChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro‐ecosystemsKey Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsEngineering Research Center of Grassland Industry, Ministry of EducationCollege of Pastoral Agriculture Science and TechnologyLanzhou UniversityLanzhouChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro‐ecosystemsKey Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsEngineering Research Center of Grassland Industry, Ministry of EducationCollege of Pastoral Agriculture Science and TechnologyLanzhou UniversityLanzhouChina
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- Agriculture Victoria Research, Department of Jobs, Precincts and RegionsAgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, La Trobe UniversityVictoriaAustralia
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- AgResearch Limited, Grasslands Research CentrePalmerston NorthNew Zealand
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro‐ecosystemsKey Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsEngineering Research Center of Grassland Industry, Ministry of EducationCollege of Pastoral Agriculture Science and TechnologyLanzhou UniversityLanzhouChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro‐ecosystemsKey Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsEngineering Research Center of Grassland Industry, Ministry of EducationCollege of Pastoral Agriculture Science and TechnologyLanzhou UniversityLanzhouChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro‐ecosystemsKey Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsEngineering Research Center of Grassland Industry, Ministry of EducationCollege of Pastoral Agriculture Science and TechnologyLanzhou UniversityLanzhouChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro‐ecosystemsKey Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsEngineering Research Center of Grassland Industry, Ministry of EducationCollege of Pastoral Agriculture Science and TechnologyLanzhou UniversityLanzhouChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro‐ecosystemsKey Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsEngineering Research Center of Grassland Industry, Ministry of EducationCollege of Pastoral Agriculture Science and TechnologyLanzhou UniversityLanzhouChina
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- Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau BiotaNorthwest Institute of Plateau BiologyChinese Academy of SciencesXiningChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro‐ecosystemsKey Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsEngineering Research Center of Grassland Industry, Ministry of EducationCollege of Pastoral Agriculture Science and TechnologyLanzhou UniversityLanzhouChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro‐ecosystemsKey Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsEngineering Research Center of Grassland Industry, Ministry of EducationCollege of Pastoral Agriculture Science and TechnologyLanzhou UniversityLanzhouChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro‐ecosystemsKey Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsEngineering Research Center of Grassland Industry, Ministry of EducationCollege of Pastoral Agriculture Science and TechnologyLanzhou UniversityLanzhouChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro‐ecosystemsKey Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsEngineering Research Center of Grassland Industry, Ministry of EducationCollege of Pastoral Agriculture Science and TechnologyLanzhou UniversityLanzhouChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro‐ecosystemsKey Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsEngineering Research Center of Grassland Industry, Ministry of EducationCollege of Pastoral Agriculture Science and TechnologyLanzhou UniversityLanzhouChina
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- Agriculture Victoria Research, Department of Jobs, Precincts and RegionsAgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, La Trobe UniversityVictoriaAustralia
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro‐ecosystemsKey Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsEngineering Research Center of Grassland Industry, Ministry of EducationCollege of Pastoral Agriculture Science and TechnologyLanzhou UniversityLanzhouChina
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Panique H, Caruso CM. Simulated pollinator declines intensify selection on floral traits that facilitate selfing and outcrossing in Impatiens capensis. Am J Bot 2020; 107:148-154. [PMID: 31828763 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2019] [Accepted: 11/07/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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PREMISE Anthropogenic environmental change is causing pollinator populations to decline. These declines should intensify selection for floral traits that facilitate outcrossing by making plants more attractive to pollinators and/or for floral traits that facilitate selfing in the absence of pollinators. However, the effect of pollinator declines on selection on floral traits could be modified by other environmental factors such as herbivores. METHODS We studied the effect of simulated pollinator declines on selection on floral traits of Impatiens capensis, a mixed-mating species that produces both obligately selfing cleistogamous flowers and primarily outcrossing chasmogamous flowers. We measured directional selection differentials via seeds per plant on two traits that facilitate outcrossing (chasmogamous flower size and number) and one trait that facilitates selfing (cleistogamous flower number) in ambient, reduced pollinator access, and reduced pollinator access combined with increased foliar herbivory treatments. RESULTS Reduced pollinator access intensified selection for larger chasmogamous flowers and more cleistogamous flowers. In contrast, increased herbivory did not affect selection on any floral trait. CONCLUSIONS Reduced pollinator access intensified selection for a trait that facilitates outcrossing, suggesting that even species such as I. capensis that can autonomously self-pollinate have the potential to respond to pollinator declines by evolving floral traits that reinforce interactions between plants and pollinators. However, reduced pollinator access also intensified selection for a trait that facilitates selfing, suggesting that I. capensis could adapt to pollinator declines by evolving floral traits that maintain the production of both selfed and outcrossed seeds.
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- Hazel Panique
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Wang Q, Shao S, Su Y, Hu X, Shen Y, Zhao D. A novel case of autogamy and cleistogamy in Dendrobium wangliangii: A rare orchid distributed in the dry-hot valley. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:12906-12914. [PMID: 31788224 PMCID: PMC6875582 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2019] [Revised: 08/12/2019] [Accepted: 09/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Dendrobium wangliangii is an epiphytic orchid distributed in the Jinshajiang dry-hot valley in Luquan County, Yunnan Province, China. Most Dendrobium spp. typically have a low fruit set, but this orchid shows a higher fruit set under natural conditions despite the lack of effective pollinators. The pollination biology of the critically endangered D. wangliangii was investigated in this study. A fruit set rate of 33.33 ± 4.71% was observed after bagging treatment in 2017 and a high fruit set rate (65.72 ± 4.44% in 2011; 50.79 ± 5.44% in 2017) was observed under natural conditions, indicating that D. wangliangii is characterized by spontaneous self-pollination. The anther cap blocked the growing pollinium; thus, the pollinium slid down and reached the stigmatic cavity, leading to autogamous self-pollination. Specifically, 51.50% of 162 unopened flowers (total 257 flowers) of this Dendrobium species under extreme water-deficit conditions developed into fruits, suggesting the presence of cleistogamy in D. wangliangii. Here, cleistogamy may represent the primary mode of pollination for this orchid. Spontaneous self-pollination and specific cleistogamous autogamy could represent major adaptions to the drought and pollinator-scarce habitat in the Jinshajiang dry-hot valley.
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- Qiuxia Wang
- College of Agriculture and Life SciencesKunming UniversityKunmingChina
- Yunnan Urban Agricultural Engineering & Technological Research CenterKunmingChina
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- Center for Integrative ConservationXishuangbanna Tropical Botanical GardenChinese Academy of SciencesMenglaChina
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- College of Agriculture and Life SciencesKunming UniversityKunmingChina
- Yunnan Urban Agricultural Engineering & Technological Research CenterKunmingChina
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- Industrial Crop Research InstituteYunnan Academy of Agricultural ScienceKunmingChina
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- College of Agriculture and BiotechnologyYunnan Agricultural UniversityKunmingChina
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- Biocontrol Engineering Research Center of Plant Disease & PestYunnan UniversityKunmingChina
- Biocontrol Engineering Research Center of Crop Disease & PestYunnan UniversityKunmingChina
- School of Life ScienceYunnan UniversityKunmingChina
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Kishikawa K, Suetsugu K, Kyogoku D, Ogaki K, Iga D, Shutoh K, Isagi Y, Kaneko S. Development of microsatellite markers for the completely cleistogamous species Gastrodia takeshimensis (Orchidaceae) that are transferable to its chasmogamous sister G. nipponica. Genes Genet Syst 2019; 94:95-98. [PMID: 30956254 DOI: 10.1266/ggs.18-00057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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We developed microsatellite markers to compare the genetic variation between the putatively cleistogamous Gastrodia takeshimensis (Orchidaceae) and its chasmogamous sister species G. nipponica. We expected low genetic variation in G. takeshimensis in view of its hypothesized cleistogamy. Eighteen primer pairs were developed from a G. takeshimensis genomic DNA library, and their characteristics were tested for G. takeshimensis and G. nipponica. Seven loci were polymorphic in G. nipponica, whereas all loci showed no polymorphism in G. takeshimensis. Genetic diversity was thus not detected in G. takeshimensis, and it seems to have been lost by repeated selfing in the completely closed flower. The 18 markers described here will be useful for investigating the genetic variation between a cleistogamous species and its chasmogamous sister species.
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- Keiju Kishikawa
- Graduate School of Symbiotic Systems Science and Technology, Fukushima University
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- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University
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- Present affiliation: Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University.,Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
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- Graduate School of Symbiotic Systems Science and Technology, Fukushima University
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- Faculty of Symbiotic Systems Science, Fukushima University
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- Graduate School of Symbiotic Systems Science and Technology, Fukushima University.,Faculty of Education, Niigata University
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
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- Faculty of Symbiotic Systems Science, Fukushima University
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Lozada-Gobilard S, Weigend M, Fischer E, Janssens SB, Ackermann M, Abrahamczyk S. Breeding systems in Balsaminaceae in relation to pollen/ovule ratio, pollination syndromes, life history and climate zone. Plant Biol (Stuttg) 2019; 21:157-166. [PMID: 30134002 DOI: 10.1111/plb.12905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2018] [Accepted: 08/20/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Pollen/ovule (P/O) ratios are often used as proxy for breeding systems. Here, we investigate the relations between breeding systems and P/O ratios, pollination syndromes, life history and climate zone in Balsaminaceae. We conducted controlled breeding system experiments (autonomous and active self-pollination and outcrossing tests) for 65 Balsaminaceae species, analysed pollen grain and ovule numbers and evaluated the results in combination with data on pollination syndrome, life history and climate zone on a phylogenetic basis. Based on fruit set, we assigned three breeding systems: autogamy, self-compatibility and self-incompatibility. Self-pollination led to lower fruit set than outcrossing. We neither found significant P/O differences between breeding systems nor between pollination syndromes. However, the numbers of pollen grains and ovules per flower were significantly lower in autogamous species, but pollen grain and ovule numbers did not differ between most pollination syndromes. Finally, we found no relation between breeding system and climate zone, but a relation between climate zone and life history. In Balsaminaceae reproductive traits can change under resource or pollinator limitation, leading to the evolution of autogamy, but are evolutionary rather constant and not under strong selection pressure by pollinator guild and geographic range changes. Colonisation of temperate regions, however, is correlated with transitions towards annual life history. Pollen/ovule-ratios, commonly accepted as good indicators of breeding system, have a low predictive value in Balsaminaceae. In the absence of experimental data on breeding system, additional floral traits (overall pollen grain and ovule number, traits of floral morphology) may be used as proxies.
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- S Lozada-Gobilard
- Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Biodiversity Research/Systematic Botany, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Institute for Integrated Natural Sciences - Biology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany
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- Institute for Integrated Natural Sciences - Biology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany
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- Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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Ansaldi BH, Franks SJ, Weber JJ. The influence of environmental factors on breeding system allocation at large spatial scales. AoB Plants 2018; 10:ply069. [PMID: 30568764 PMCID: PMC6294598 DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/ply069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2018] [Revised: 10/22/2018] [Accepted: 11/02/2018] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Plant breeding systems can vary widely among populations, yet few studies have investigated abiotic factors contributing to variation across a broad geographic range. Here we investigate variation in reproductive traits of Triodanis perfoliata (Campanulaceae), a species that exhibits dimorphic cleistogamy, a condition in which individual plants have both closed (selfing: cleistogamous: CL) and open (selfing or outcrossing: chasmogamous: CH) flowers. Chasmogamous production is theorized to be more costly because CH flowers have a larger exposed surface area and thus are more likely to lose more water than CL flowers. We examine relationships between abiotic conditions (temperature, precipitation and soil characteristics) and variation in breeding systems across 14 widespread populations using ordinary least squares models. We found that a large proportion of breeding system variation was described by climate and soil variables (R 2 = 0.65-0.92). These results support the hypothesis that variation in the environment drives variation in breeding system allocation. Our broad geographic analyses provide a framework for mechanistic studies of cleistogamy, and employ a novel approach for examining reproductive traits and environmental variation at large scales. Given that two major components of our models were temperature and precipitation, our study further emphasizes the potential for ongoing climate change to alter plant breeding systems.
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- Beth H Ansaldi
- Department of Biology, Fordham University, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Department of Biology, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, USA
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Ansaldi BH, Weber JJ, Franks SJ. The role of phenotypic plasticity and pollination environment in the cleistogamous, mixed mating breeding system of Triodanis perfoliata. Plant Biol (Stuttg) 2018; 20:1068-1074. [PMID: 30028066 DOI: 10.1111/plb.12877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2018] [Accepted: 07/16/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The role of variable pollination environments in maintaining mixed mating systems is an active area of research. Dimorphic cleistogamy, in which a plant reproduces by both open, facultative outcrossing chasmogamous (CH) flowers and closed, cleistogamous (CL) flowers presents an excellent opportunity to study mixed mating. For example, plastic responses in allocation to an optimal floral type could serve as an adaptive strategy that maintains mixed mating under variable pollination environments. We tested for pollen limitation and plastic responses in allocation to different floral types under manipulated pollination conditions in the dimorphic cleistogamous, mixed mating annual, Triodanis perfoliata. Using a field population, we quantified pollen limitation, auto-fertility and plastic responses in the breeding system by measuring allocation to flower number and seed set of floral types. We found no evidence for pollen limitation for CH flowers, and CH flowers had low efficacy of autonomous selfing. Importantly, we found that T. perfoliata alters floral number following changes in pollination conditions, with pollen-supplemented plants having lower relative CH flower number than non-supplemented plants. Breeding system plasticity may allow for benefits from outcrossing through CH flowers, but also increased overall fitness through relatively cheap CL reproduction. After CH flowers receive pollen, subsequent production of CH flowers was reduced, which may be due to resource limitation. Our findings did not support a theoretical model predicting increased CH flowers with high pollination levels. These results increase our understanding of the role of pollination services and resource allocation in the maintenance of mixed mating systems, which also warrants further investigation.
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- B H Ansaldi
- Department of Biology, Fordham University, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Department of Biology, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, NY, USA
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- Department of Biology, Fordham University, Bronx, NY, USA
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Ohmori S, Koike S, Hayashi T, Yamaguchi T, Kuroki M, Yoshida H. The cleistogamy of the superwoman1-cleistogamy1 mutation is sensitive to low temperatures during the lodicule-forming stage. Breed Sci 2018; 68:432-441. [PMID: 30369817 PMCID: PMC6198900 DOI: 10.1270/jsbbs.18028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2018] [Accepted: 05/31/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We reported previously that the rice (Oryza sativa L.) cleistogamous mutation superwoman1-cleistogamy1 (spw1-cls1) was applicable to inhibit outcrossing between genetically modified varieties and their relatives, which causes pollen-mediated gene flow or disturbance of line purity. The cleistogamy of spw1-cls1 is caused by decreased protein-protein interactions between the mutant SPW1 and its partner proteins. Importantly, these interactions are restored under low-temperature conditions, but whether the cleistogamy of spw1-cls1 is affected by this phenomenon was unclear. In this study, we cultivated spw1-cls1 in various regions of Japan and confirmed that its flowers opened at low temperatures. Moreover, we compared the morphology of a series of lodicules generated at various temperatures. The results indicated that the cleistogamy of spw1-cls1 is thermosensitive and is gradually disturbed as the temperature decreases. This was correlated with the protein interaction pattern of the mutant SPW1 as reported previously. Then, we revealed the critical period for the low-temperature-induced instability of the phenotype of spw1-cls1 and examined the effect of daily temperature changes on cleistogamy. The results may facilitate simulation of the phenotype of spw1-cls1 at various temperatures and the prediction of regions where the cleistogamy of spw1-cls1 can be stably used to inhibit outcrossing.
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- Shinnosuke Ohmori
- Hokuriku Research Center, NARO (National Agriculture and Food Research Organization) Agricultural Research Center,
1-2-1 Inada, Joetsu, Niigata 943-0193,
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- Tohoku Agricultural Research Center, NARO,
4 Akahira, Shimo-kuriyagawa, Morioka, Iwate 020-0198,
Japan
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- Tohoku Agricultural Research Center, NARO,
4 Akahira, Shimo-kuriyagawa, Morioka, Iwate 020-0198,
Japan
- Hokkaido Agricultural Research Center, NARO,
1 Hitsujigaoka, Toyohira, Sapporo, Hokkaido 062-8555,
Japan
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- Tohoku Agricultural Research Center, NARO,
4 Akahira, Shimo-kuriyagawa, Morioka, Iwate 020-0198,
Japan
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- Hokkaido Agricultural Research Center, NARO,
1 Hitsujigaoka, Toyohira, Sapporo, Hokkaido 062-8555,
Japan
- Institute of Crop Science, NARO,
2-1-18 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8518,
Japan
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- Institute of Crop Science, NARO,
2-1-18 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8518,
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Barnett LL, Troth A, Willis JH. Plastic breeding system response to day length in the California wildflower Mimulus douglasii. Am J Bot 2018; 105:779-787. [PMID: 29693727 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2017] [Accepted: 01/11/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY Angiosperms have evolved multiple breeding systems that allow reproductive success under varied conditions. Striking among these are cleistogamous breeding systems, where individuals can produce alternative flower types specialized for distinct mating strategies. Cleistogamy is thought to be environmentally-dependent, but little is known about environmental triggers. If production of alternate flowers is environmentally induced, populations may evolve locally adapted responses. Mimulus douglasii, exhibits a cleistogamous breeding system, and ranges across temperature and day-length gradients, providing an ideal system to investigate environmental parameters that control cleistogamy. METHODS We compared flowering responses across Mimulus douglasii population accessions that produce distinct outcrossing and self-pollinating flower morphs. Under controlled conditions, we determined time to flower, and number and type of flowers produced under different temperatures and day lengths. KEY RESULTS Temperature and day length both affect onset of flowering. Long days shift flower type from predominantly chasmogamous to cleistogamous. The strength of the response to day length varies across accessions whether temperature varies or is held constant. CONCLUSIONS Cleistogamy is an environmentally sensitive polyphenism in Mimulus douglasii, allowing transition from one mating strategy to another. Longer days induce flowering and production of cleistogamous flowers. Shorter days induce chasmogamous flowers. Population origin has a small effect on response to environmental cues.
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- Laryssa L Barnett
- Department of Biology, Duke University, Box 90338, Durham, North Carolina, 27708, USA
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- Department of Biology, Duke University, Box 90338, Durham, North Carolina, 27708, USA
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- Department of Biology, Duke University, Box 90338, Durham, North Carolina, 27708, USA
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Snow N, Peterson PM, Romaschenko K, Simon BK. Monograph of Diplachne (Poaceae, Chloridoideae, Cynodonteae). PhytoKeys 2018; 93:1-102. [PMID: 29416413 PMCID: PMC5799776 DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.93.21079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2017] [Accepted: 12/28/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Diplachne P. Beauv. comprises two species with C4 (NAD-ME) photosynthesis. Diplachne fusca has a nearly pantropical-pantemperate distribution with four subspecies: D. fusca subsp. fusca is Paleotropical with native distributions in Africa, southern Asia and Australia; the widespread Australian endemic D. f. subsp. muelleri; and D. f. subsp. fascicularis and D. f. subsp. uninervia occurring in the New World. Diplachne gigantea is known from a few widely scattered, older collections in east-central and southern Africa, and although Data Deficient clearly is of conservation concern. A discussion of previous taxonomic treatments is provided, including molecular data supporting Diplachne in its newer, restricted sense. Many populations of Diplachne fusca are highly tolerant of saline substrates and most prefer seasonally moist to saturated soils, often in disturbed areas. Some populations of Diplachne fusca in southern Asia combine nitrogen-fixation, high salinity tolerance and palatibilty to livestock, which should be pursued with further research for purposes of soil reclamation. Diplachne fusca subsp. uninervia is the most invasive of the subspecies and is becoming weedy in some non-native areas, including in the Old World. This monograph provides detailed descriptions of all taxa, a key to the species and subspecies, geographic distributions and information on the anatomy of leaves, stems, lemmatal micromorphology and discussions of the chromosome numbers. Lectotypes are designated for: Atropis carinata Grisb.; Diplachne acuminata Nash; Diplachne capensis (Nees) Nees var. concinna Nees; Diplachne capensis (Nees) Nees var. obscura Nees, Diplachne capensis (Nees) Nees var. prolifera subvar. minor Nees, Diplachne halei Nash, Diplachne maritima E.P. Bicknel, Diplachne muelleri Benth., Diplachne reverchonii Vasey, Diplachne tectoneticola Backer, Leptochloa imbricata Thurb., Leptochloa neuroglossa Peter, Leptochloa uninervia var. typica fo. abbreviata Parodi, Triodia ambigua R. Br. and Triodia parviflora R. Br.
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- Neil Snow
- Department of Biology, T.M. Sperry Herbarium, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS 66762, USA
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- Queensland Herbarium, Mt Coot-tha Road, Toowong, Brisbane, QLD 4066 Australia
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Koontz SM, Weekley CW, Haller Crate SJ, Menges ES. Patterns of chasmogamy and cleistogamy, a mixed-mating strategy in an endangered perennial. AoB Plants 2017; 9:plx059. [PMID: 29308127 PMCID: PMC5751043 DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plx059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2017] [Accepted: 10/30/2017] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Cleistogamy (CL) in angiosperms historically has been understudied; however, its co-occurrence with chasmogamy (CH) across many plant species suggests a fitness advantage to maintaining this mixed-mating strategy. Maintenance of mixed-mating has been attributed to reproductive assurance, resource allocation or genetic trade-offs. Our goals were to explore patterns of CH and CL, quantify reproductive contributions measured by fruit production and determine how CL is maintained in the endangered perennial Polygala lewtonii. This species exhibits CH and both above-ground cleistogamy (CL-AG) and below-ground cleistogamy (CL-BG). In monthly censuses from 2008 to 2012, we documented flowering patterns by counting CH flowering stems, CL-AG fruits and CL-BG rhizomes per plant. Monitoring of buds on CH flowering stems in 2004 provided an estimate of CH fruits per plant. Plant excavations in 2005 of CL-BG rhizomes provided an estimate of CL-BG fruits per plant. Floral morphs were temporally separated with CH flowers observed from January to May and CL flowers from June to February. Overall, 17.5 % of plants flowered; most plants expressed CH first in spring months (63.4 %) and the rest initiated CL-AG in fall months. Reproductive output was dominated by CH (median 26 fruits) compared to combined CL (median 3.5 fruits). Annual reproductive effort of CL-AG was positively correlated with plant age while CH had no relation. Our research shows CH as the dominant form of reproductive effort with most individuals expressing CH and through greater reproductive contributions. CL appears limited by plant size or resources based on the positive relationship with plant age. CL dependency on resource availability is common in other species found in dry or low-quality habitats; however, CL contributions in this species are comparatively low. This raises more questions related to energy requirements of both floral morphs, how this affects the production of viable progeny and why CL persists.
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- The Plant Ecology Program, Archbold Biological Station, FL, USA
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- Longleaf Program Coordinator, North Carolina Forest Service, North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, NC, USA
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- The Plant Ecology Program, Archbold Biological Station, FL, USA
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Xu X, Luo X, Wang X, Guo H, Hu S. Microsatellite primers in Plantago virginica (Plantaginaceae), an invasive species with both cleistogamous and chasmogamous flowers. Genes Genet Syst 2017; 92:293-297. [PMID: 28794350 DOI: 10.1266/ggs.17-00011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Polymorphic microsatellite markers were developed in Plantago virginica, an invasive species in China with both cleistogamous and chasmogamous flowers, to investigate its genetic structure and mating patterns. Fourteen novel microsatellite primer sets were designed, and the marker loci they amplified were characterized in 96 individuals from four populations. Eleven of these markers showed polymorphism and the number of alleles per locus ranged from two to six. AMOVA and STRUCTURE indicated that there were distinct patterns of genetic differentiation among the one invasive and three native US populations. These markers provide a useful tool for investigating genetic diversity in P. virginica and studying the mechanisms of invasion success.
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- Xinyu Xu
- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University
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Lombardo F, Kuroki M, Yao S, Shimizu H, Ikegaya T, Kimizu M, Ohmori S, Akiyama T, Hayashi T, Yamaguchi T, Koike S, Yatou O, Yoshida H. The superwoman1- cleistogamy2 mutant is a novel resource for gene containment in rice. Plant Biotechnol J 2017; 15:97-106. [PMID: 27336225 PMCID: PMC5253472 DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2016] [Revised: 06/09/2016] [Accepted: 06/18/2016] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Outcrossing between cultivated plants and their related wild species may result in the loss of favourable agricultural traits in the progeny or escape of transgenes in the environment. Outcrossing can be physically prevented by using cleistogamous (i.e. closed-flower) plants. In rice, flower opening is dependent on the mechanical action of fleshy organs called lodicules, which are generally regarded as the grass petal equivalents. Lodicule identity and development are specified by the action of protein complexes involving the SPW1 and OsMADS2 transcription factors. In the superwoman1-cleistogamy1 (spw1-cls1) mutant, SPW1 is impaired for heterodimerization with OsMADS2 and consequently spw1-cls1 shows thin, ineffective lodicules. However, low temperatures help stabilise the mutated SPW1/OsMADS2 heterodimer and lodicule development is restored when spw1-cls1 is grown in a cold environment, resulting in the loss of the cleistogamous phenotype. To identify a novel, temperature-stable cleistogamous allele of SPW1, targeted and random mutations were introduced into the SPW1 sequence and their effects over SPW1/OsMADS2 dimer formation were assessed in yeast two-hybrid experiments. In parallel, a novel cleistogamous allele of SPW1 called spw1-cls2 was isolated from a forward genetic screen. In spw1-cls2, a mutation leading to a change of an amino acid involved in DNA binding by the transcription factor was identified. Fertility of spw1-cls2 is somewhat decreased under low temperatures but unlike for spw1-cls1, the cleistogamous phenotype is maintained, making the line a safer and valuable genetic resource for gene containment.
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- Fabien Lombardo
- Division of Applied GeneticsInstitute of Agrobiological SciencesNational Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO)IbarakiJapan
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- Division of Crop Breeding ResearchHokkaido Agricultural Research CenterNAROHokkaidoJapan
- Division of Rice ResearchInstitute of Crop ScienceNAROIbarakiJapan
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- Division of Crop DevelopmentCentral Region Agricultural Research CenterNARONiigataJapan
- Present address: Center for Genome BiologyInstitute of Genetics and Developmental BiologyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100101China
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- Division of Crop Breeding ResearchHokkaido Agricultural Research CenterNAROHokkaidoJapan
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- Division of Crop Breeding ResearchHokkaido Agricultural Research CenterNAROHokkaidoJapan
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- Division of Crop DevelopmentCentral Region Agricultural Research CenterNARONiigataJapan
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- Division of Crop DevelopmentCentral Region Agricultural Research CenterNARONiigataJapan
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- Division of Applied GeneticsInstitute of Agrobiological SciencesNational Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO)IbarakiJapan
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- Division of Crop Breeding ResearchHokkaido Agricultural Research CenterNAROHokkaidoJapan
- Division of Agro‐Production Technologies and Management ResearchTohoku Agricultural Research CenterNAROIwateJapan
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- Division of Agro‐Production Technologies and Management ResearchTohoku Agricultural Research CenterNAROIwateJapan
- Present address: Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research CouncilMinistry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of JapanTokyo100‐8950Japan
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- Division of Agro‐Production Technologies and Management ResearchTohoku Agricultural Research CenterNAROIwateJapan
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- Division of Crop DevelopmentCentral Region Agricultural Research CenterNARONiigataJapan
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- Division of Applied GeneticsInstitute of Agrobiological SciencesNational Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO)IbarakiJapan
- Division of Crop DevelopmentCentral Region Agricultural Research CenterNARONiigataJapan
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Stojanova B, Maurice S, Cheptou PO. Is plasticity across seasons adaptive in the annual cleistogamous plant Lamium amplexicaule? Ann Bot 2016; 117:681-91. [PMID: 26995537 PMCID: PMC4817529 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcw013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2015] [Accepted: 11/23/2015] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Many angiosperms exhibit cleistogamy, the production of both cleistogamous flowers (CL), which remain closed and obligately self-pollinated, and chasmogamous flowers (CH), which are potentially open-pollinated. The CH proportion can be plastic. Plasticity is adaptive if environmental changes can be reliably assessed and responded to with an appropriate phenotype and if plastic genotypes have higher fitness in variable environments than non-plastic ones. METHODS We studied the plastic response of four natural populations from northern and southern France of an annual cleistogamous plant, Lamium amplexicaule, to predictable seasonal variation. Plants were grown in a semi-controlled environment in spring and in autumn. We assessed the variation in flower number, phenology and cleistogamy-related traits, which were all plastic with respect to season. The CH proportion was higher in spring than in autumn in all four populations. KEY RESULTS We showed significant stabilizing selection for cleistogamy traits, with higher optimal CH proportions and more pronounced stabilizing selection in spring than in autumn. Observed CH proportions were close to the predicted optimal CH proportions in each season except in autumn for southern populations, which do not experience the autumnal growing season in nature. CONCLUSIONS These results are consistent with adaptive plasticity across seasons of cleistogamy in L. amplexicaule.We propose that adaptive plasticity of cleistogamy could be driven by pollination environment variation, with CL flowers providing reproductive assurance when pollinators are scarce and CH flowers reducing the inbreeding depression in offspring when pollinators are abundant.
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- B Stojanova
- LBPV LUNAM Université de Nantes, 2 chemin de la Houssinière, 44000 Nantes, France, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE - C.C. 065, Place Eugène Bataillon - 34095 Montpellier cedex 05, France and CEFE UMR 5175, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, EPHE - 1919, route de Mende - 34293 Montpellier cedex 05, France
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE - C.C. 065, Place Eugène Bataillon - 34095 Montpellier cedex 05, France and
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- CEFE UMR 5175, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, EPHE - 1919, route de Mende - 34293 Montpellier cedex 05, France
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Convincing evidence has accumulated that unintended transgene escape occurs in oilseed rape, maize, cotton and creeping bentgrass. The escaped transgenes are found in variant cultivars, in wild type plants as well as in hybrids of sexually compatible species. The fact that in some cases stacked events are present that have not been planted commercially, implies unintended recombination of transgenic traits. As the consequences of this continuous transgene escape for the ecosystem cannot be reliably predicted, I propose to use more sophisticated approaches of gene technology in future. If possible GM plants should be constructed using either site-directed mutagenesis or cisgenic strategies to avoid the problem of transgene escape. In cases where a transgenic trait is needed, efficient containment should be the standard approach. Various strategies available or in development are discussed. Such a cautious approach in developing novel types of GM crops will enhance the sustainable potential of GM crops and thus increase the public trust in green gene technology.
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- Gerhart U Ryffel
- a Institut für Zellbiologie (Tumorforschung); Universitätsklinikum Essen ; Essen , Germany
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Sherif S, El-Sharkawy I, Mathur J, Ravindran P, Kumar P, Paliyath G, Jayasankar S. A stable JAZ protein from peach mediates the transition from outcrossing to self-pollination. BMC Biol 2015; 13:11. [PMID: 25857534 PMCID: PMC4364584 DOI: 10.1186/s12915-015-0124-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2014] [Accepted: 01/27/2015] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Variations in floral display represent one of the core features associated with the transition from allogamy to autogamy in angiosperms. The promotion of autogamy under stress conditions suggests the potential involvement of a signaling pathway with a dual role in both flower development and stress response. The jasmonic acid (JA) pathway is a plausible candidate to play such a role because of its involvement in many plant responses to environmental and developmental cues. In the present study, we used peach (Prunus persica L.) varieties with showy and non-showy flowers to investigate the role of JA (and JA signaling suppressors) in floral display. RESULTS Our results show that PpJAZ1, a component of the JA signaling pathway in peach, regulates petal expansion during anthesis and promotes self-pollination. PpJAZ1 transcript levels were higher in petals of the non-showy flowers than those of showy flowers at anthesis. Moreover, the ectopic expression of PpJAZ1 in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) converted the showy, chasmogamous tobacco flowers into non-showy, cleistogamous flowers. Stability of PpJAZ1 was confirmed in vivo using PpJAZ1-GFP chimeric protein. PpJAZ1 inhibited JA-dependent processes in roots and leaves of transgenic plants, including induction of JA-response genes to mechanical wounding. However, the inhibitory effect of PpJAZ1 on JA-dependent fertility functions was weaker, indicating that PpJAZ1 regulates the spatial localization of JA signaling in different plant organs. Indeed, JA-related genes showed differential expression patterns in leaves and flowers of transgenic plants. CONCLUSIONS Our results reveal that under stress conditions – for example, herbivore attacks – stable JAZ proteins such as PpJAZ1 may alter JA signaling in different plant organs, resulting in autogamy as a reproductive assurance mechanism. This represents an additional mechanism by which plant hormone signaling can modulate a vital developmental process in response to stress.
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- Sherif Sherif
- />Vineland Research Station, Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, 4890 Victoria Av. N, P.O. Box 7000, Vineland Station, ON L0R 2E0 Canada
- />Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, Ontario N1G2W1 Canada
- />Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Damanhour University, Al-Gomhuria St, PO Box 22516, Damanhour, Al-Behira Egypt
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- />Vineland Research Station, Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, 4890 Victoria Av. N, P.O. Box 7000, Vineland Station, ON L0R 2E0 Canada
- />Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Damanhour University, Al-Gomhuria St, PO Box 22516, Damanhour, Al-Behira Egypt
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- />Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, Ontario N1G2W1 Canada
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- />Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Science Drive 4, Singapore, 117543 Singapore
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- />Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Science Drive 4, Singapore, 117543 Singapore
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- />Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, Ontario N1G2W1 Canada
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- />Vineland Research Station, Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, 4890 Victoria Av. N, P.O. Box 7000, Vineland Station, ON L0R 2E0 Canada
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Parra-Tabla V, Munguía-Rosas M, Campos-Navarrete MJ, Ramos-Zapata JA. Effects of flower dimorphism and light environment on arbuscular mycorrhizal colonisation in a cleistogamous herb. Plant Biol (Stuttg) 2015; 17:163-168. [PMID: 25077675 DOI: 10.1111/plb.12223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2014] [Accepted: 05/04/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Although it is known that floral dimorphism contributes to the maintenance of mixed breeding systems, the consequences of producing progeny of a contrasting genetic background and seeds with differential resource allocation has been practically ignored regarding establishment of belowground organisms-plant interactions. This article evaluates the combined effect of floral dimorphism with cross type and light environment on interactions between Ruellia nudiflora and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). R. nudiflora produces cleistogamous (CL) flowers that exhibit obligate self-pollination and chasmogamous (CH) flowers with facultative self- (CHs) or cross- (CHc) pollination. We evaluated the establishment of the plant-AMF interaction in progeny derived from each floral type, under two light conditions (shaded versus open). We established different scenarios depending on the existence of inbreeding depression (ID) and whether the differential resource allocation (DRA) to CH and CL flowers affected the R. nudiflora-AMF interaction. We predicted that under shaded light conditions there might be an intensification of ID, having a negative effect on AMF colonisation. The percentages of hyphae and vesicles in the harvested roots was significantly higher in the shaded plants (F ≥ 4.11, P < 0.05), while progeny of CHc and CHs presented a higher percentage of hyphae and vesicle colonisation compared to CL progeny (F = 15.26, P < 0.01). The results show that DRA to CH flowers and light availability both determines the establishment of R. nudiflora-AMF interaction. The results also suggest that even under stressful light conditions, endogamy does not affect this interaction, which may explain the success of R. nudiflora as an invasive species.
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- V Parra-Tabla
- Departamento de Ecología Tropical, Campus de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, México
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Havran JC, Harbin SC, Portner T. Viola kauaensis var. hosakae (Violaceae), a new variety of endemic Hawaiian violet. PhytoKeys 2014; 39:35-48. [PMID: 25197224 PMCID: PMC4152890 DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.39.6500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2013] [Accepted: 05/19/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The Hawaiian endemic Viola kauaensis A. Gray has a broad distribution in bogs of Kaua`i and a limited distribution on mesic ridges in the Ko`olau Mountains of O`ahu. Based on differences in scale, the O`ahu populations of Viola kauaensis had previously been described as a distinct taxon. The taxonomic status of the O`ahu populations was reevaluated through a morphometric analysis of all varieties of Viola kauaensis and the morphologically similar Viola vanroyenii. Morphological features of historic and freshly collected specimens of all varieties of Viola kauaensis were analyzed with a principal components analysis. Populations from O`ahu represent a distinct cluster that slightly overlaps with Viola kauaensis var. kauaensis. Lamina width, apex angle, and base angles contribute to the separation of the O`ahu populations from other varieties of Viola kauaensis. Due to differences in scale, the O`ahu populations are described as Viola kauaensis var. hosakae, a new critically endangered taxon.
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- J. Christopher Havran
- Department of Biological Sciences, 205 Day Dorm Rd, Campbell University, Buies Creek, NC 27506, USA
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- O`ahu Plant Extinction Prevention Program, 2551 Waimano Home Rd, Rm 202, Pearl City, HI 96782, USA
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- O`ahu Plant Extinction Prevention Program, 2551 Waimano Home Rd, Rm 202, Pearl City, HI 96782, USA
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Ni DH, Li J, Duan YB, Yang YC, Wei PC, Xu RF, Li CR, Liang DD, Li H, Song FS, Ni JL, Li L, Yang JB. Identification and utilization of cleistogamy gene cl7(t) in rice (Oryza sativa L.). J Exp Bot 2014; 65:2107-2117. [PMID: 24619999 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eru074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Gene transformation is an important method for improvement of plants into elite varieties. However, the possibility of gene flow between genetically modified (GM) crops and similar species is a serious public issue that may potentially endanger ecological stability. Cleistogamy is expected to be an ideal genetic tool for preventing transgene propagation from GM crops. A rice mutant, cl7(t), was created by ethyl methanesulfonate mutagenesis. The mutant exhibited cleistogamy, and had closed spikelets, reduced plant height, and altered morphology of the leaves, panicle, and seeds. Anatomical investigations revealed that the cl7(t) mutant contained more vascular bundles and thicker stems than the wild type, which increased the mechanical strength of its internodes, and anti-lodging ability. Further studies demonstrated that the force required to open the lemma and palea was higher in the cl7(t) mutant, and there was weak swelling ability in the lodicules, which leads to cleistogamy. Allelic analyses and complementation tests indicated that cl7(t) was a novel allele of dep2, a mutant that was previously reported to have similar panicle morphology. Sequence analysis showed that cl7(t) had a single nucleotide substitution (C to A) in the third exon that leads to a Ser substitution with a stop codon, giving a truncated DEP2 protein. Quantitative RT-PCR and in situ hybridization tests demonstrated that there was lower CL7(t) expression level in the spikelets and weaker CL7(t) signals in the lodicules of the cl7(t) mutant compared with wild type, which implies that CL7(t) might participate in the development of lodicules. To improve the agronomic traits of cl7(t) to fit the needs of field production, the cl7(t) mutant was crossed with an intermediate-type rice variety named Guanghui102, which bears some important agronomic traits, including increased grain numbers and high rate of seed setting. Through multi-generational pedigree selection, cleistogamy lines with improved economic traits were obtained, which can be used for the selection of ecologically safe GM rice varieties.
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- Da-Hu Ni
- Rice Research Institute, Anhui Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hefei 230031, PR China
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Ning S, Wang N, Sakuma S, Pourkheirandish M, Koba T, Komatsuda T. Variation in the wheat AP2 homoeologs, the genes underlying lodicule development. Breed Sci 2013; 63:255-66. [PMID: 24273420 PMCID: PMC3770552 DOI: 10.1270/jsbbs.63.255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2013] [Accepted: 04/12/2013] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The bread wheat genome harbors three homoeologs of the barley gene HvAP2, which determines the cleistogamous/non-cleistogamous flowering. The three homoeologs, TaAP2-A, TaAP2-B and TaAP2-D, are derived from the A, B and D genomes. The importance of lodicule swelling in assuring non-cleistogamous flowering in a range of wild and domesticated wheat accessions of varying ploidy level was established. Re-sequencing of wheat AP2 homoeologous genes was carried out to identify natural variation at both the nucleotide and polypeptide level. The sequences of wheat AP2 homoeologs are highly conserved even across different ploidy levels and no functional variants at the key miR172 targeting site were detected. These results indicate that engineering of cleistogamous wheat will require the presence of a functional TaAP2 modification at each of the three homoeologs.
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- Shunzong Ning
- National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS), Plant Genome Research Unit,
2-1-2 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8602,
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- Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University,
648 Matsudo, Matsudo, Chiba 271-8510,
Japan
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- National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS), Plant Genome Research Unit,
2-1-2 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8602,
Japan
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- National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS), Plant Genome Research Unit,
2-1-2 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8602,
Japan
- Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University,
648 Matsudo, Matsudo, Chiba 271-8510,
Japan
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- National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS), Plant Genome Research Unit,
2-1-2 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8602,
Japan
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- Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University,
648 Matsudo, Matsudo, Chiba 271-8510,
Japan
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- National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS), Plant Genome Research Unit,
2-1-2 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8602,
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We investigated the frequency of outcrossing in downy brome (Bromus tectorum L.), a cleistogamous weedy annual grass, in both common garden and wild populations, using microsatellite and single nucleotide polymorphic (SNP) markers. In the common garden study, 25 lines with strongly contrasting genotypes were planted in close proximity. We fingerprinted 10 seed progeny from 8 individuals of each line and detected 15 first-generation heterozygotes for a t-value (corrected for cryptic crosses) of 0.0082. Different genotypes were significantly overrepresented as maternal versus paternal parents of heterozygotes, suggesting gender-function-dependent genetic control of outcrossing rates. In 4 wild populations (>300 individuals each), expected heterozygosity ranged from 0.149 to 0.336, whereas t-values ranged from 0.0027 to 0.0133, indicating high levels of both genetic diversity and inbreeding. Up to a third of the individuals in each population belonged to groups with identical or nearly identical SNP genotypes, whereas many of the remaining individuals were members of loose clusters of apparently related plants that probably represent descendants from past outcrossing events. Strict inbreeding in some lineages within a population with occasional outcrossing in others may be related to positive selection on adaptive syndromes associated with specific inbreeding lineages, or possibly to among-lineage differences in genetic regulation of outcrossing.
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- Susan E Meyer
- Shrub Sciences Laboratory, US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 735 North 500 East, Provo, UT 84606, USA.
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Stojanova B, Dubois MP, Maurice S, Cheptou PO. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers for the cleistogamous species Lamium amplexicaule (Lamiaceae). Appl Plant Sci 2013; 1:apps1200259. [PMID: 25202515 PMCID: PMC4105369 DOI: 10.3732/apps.1200259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2012] [Accepted: 08/05/2012] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY Lamium amplexicaule is a cleistogamous plant that produces both closed flowers (obligately self-pollinated) and open flowers (potentially outcrossed). The conditions for the maintenance of such a mating system depend on the outcrossing rate of the open flowers, which can be estimated using neutral microsatellite markers. • METHODS AND RESULTS Forty primer pairs corresponding to microsatellite motifs obtained by coupling multiplex microsatellite enrichment and next-generation sequencing were tested. Thirteen primers amplified with satisfying results. The polymorphism of these markers was studied in four French populations. Allele number varied from one to eight per locus and per population. Heterozygosity levels were significantly lower than those expected under Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. • CONCLUSIONS Our results are consistent with a partial self-fertilization pattern. These markers will be used to estimate the outcrossing rate as well as population differentiation in L. amplexicaule.
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- Bojana Stojanova
- Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), UMR 5175 (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique [CNRS], Université Montpellier 2), 1919 route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier CEDEX 5, France
- Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution–Montpellier (ISE-M), UMR 5554 (CNRS, Université Montpellier 2), Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier CEDEX 5, France
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- Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), UMR 5175 (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique [CNRS], Université Montpellier 2), 1919 route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier CEDEX 5, France
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- Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution–Montpellier (ISE-M), UMR 5554 (CNRS, Université Montpellier 2), Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier CEDEX 5, France
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- Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), UMR 5175 (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique [CNRS], Université Montpellier 2), 1919 route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier CEDEX 5, France
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Ohmori S, Tabuchi H, Yatou O, Yoshida H. Agronomic traits and gene containment capability of cleistogamous rice lines with the superwoman1- cleistogamy mutation. Breed Sci 2012; 62:124-32. [PMID: 23136523 PMCID: PMC3405965 DOI: 10.1270/jsbbs.62.124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2011] [Accepted: 02/09/2012] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Pollen-mediated transgene flow is a major concern for the production of genetically modified (GM) rice. Cleistogamy is a useful tool for preventing this form of gene flow. We previously identified the cleistogamous rice mutant superwoman1-cleistogamy (spw1-cls) and determined its molecular genetic mechanism. In the present study, we cultivated spw1-cls over five years to examine effects of cleistogamy on agronomic traits. Simultaneously, we cultivated cleistogamous backcross lines created by continuous backcrossing with "Yumeaoba" (a japonica cultivar) as the recurrent parent and by application of a DNA marker. In these experimental cultivations, spw1-cls and its backcross lines showed almost equal or slightly lower, but acceptable, agronomic traits compared with each control line. We also conducted natural crossing tests in paddy fields to assess the gene containment capability of spw1-cls. In a series of field experiments, there was no natural crossing between spw1-cls (pollen donor) and pollen recipient lines, but the wild-type donor and recipient lines were crossed. Thus, the cleistogamy of the spw1-cls mutation is able to inhibit natural crossing effectively, without significant loss of commercial benefits, such as yield. We conclude that spw1-cls cleistogamy is a practical tool for gene containment in GM rice cultivation.
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- Shinnosuke Ohmori
- Hokuriku Research Center, NARO (National Agriculture and Food Research Organization) Agricultural Research Center, 1-2-1 Inada, Joetsu, Niigata 943-0193, Japan
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- Hokuriku Research Center, NARO (National Agriculture and Food Research Organization) Agricultural Research Center, 1-2-1 Inada, Joetsu, Niigata 943-0193, Japan
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- Hokuriku Research Center, NARO (National Agriculture and Food Research Organization) Agricultural Research Center, 1-2-1 Inada, Joetsu, Niigata 943-0193, Japan
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- National Institute of Crop Science, NARO, 2-1-18 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8518, Japan
- Corresponding author (e-mail: )
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Munguía-Rosas MA, Parra-Tabla V, Ollerton J, Cervera JC. Environmental control of reproductive phenology and the effect of pollen supplementation on resource allocation in the cleistogamous weed, Ruellia nudiflora (Acanthaceae). Ann Bot 2012; 109:343-50. [PMID: 22095920 PMCID: PMC3268533 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcr284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Mixed reproductive strategies may have evolved as a response of plants to cope with environmental variation. One example of a mixed reproductive strategy is dimorphic cleistogamy, where a single plant produces closed, obligately self-pollinated (CL) flowers and open, potentially outcrossed (CH) flowers. Frequently, optimal environmental conditions favour production of more costly CH structures whilst economical and reliable CL structures are produced under less favourable conditions. In this study we explore (1) the effect of light and water on the reproductive phenology and (2) the effect of pollen supplementation on resource allocation to seeds in the cleistogamous weed Ruellia nudiflora. METHODS Split-plot field experiments were carried out to assess the effect of shade (two levels: ambient light vs. a reduction of 50 %) and watering (two levels: non-watered vs. watered) on the onset, end and duration of the production of three reproductive structures: CH flowers, CH fruit and CL fruit. We also looked at the effect of these environmental factors on biomass allocation to seeds (seed weight) from obligately self-pollinated flowers (CL), open-pollinated CH flowers and pollen-supplemented CH flowers. KEY RESULTS CH structures were produced for a briefer period and ended earlier under shaded conditions. These conditions also resulted in an earlier production of CL fruit. Shaded conditions also produced greater biomass allocation to CH seeds receiving extra pollen. CONCLUSIONS Sub-optimal (shaded) conditions resulted in a briefer production period of CH structures whilst these same conditions resulted in an earlier production of CL structures. However, under sub-optimal conditions, plants also allocated more resources to seeds sired from CH flowers receiving large pollen loads. Earlier production of reproductive structures and relatively larger seed might improve subsequent success of CL and pollen-supplemented CH seeds, respectively.
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- Miguel A Munguía-Rosas
- Departamento de Ecología Humana, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Yucatán, México.
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Yoshida M, Nakajima T, Arai M, Suzuki F, Tomimura K. Effect of the Timing of Fungicide Application on Fusarium Head Blight and Mycotoxin Accumulation in Closed-Flowering Barley. Plant Dis 2008; 92:1164-1170. [PMID: 30769480 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-92-8-1164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Fungicide application is one measure available to reduce the risk of Fusarium head blight (FHB) and mycotoxin contamination in barley. The stage at or near anthesis, or at full head emergence, is generally thought to be optimal for fungicide application, regardless of cultivar. However, we have previously found that the most critical time for Fusarium graminearum infection and mycotoxin accumulation in barley differs among cultivars. Whereas chasmogamous (open-flowering) cultivars were most susceptible at anthesis, cleistogamous (closed-flowering) cultivars were considerably resistant at anthesis but became susceptible after 'spent' anther extrusion. Therefore, this study evaluated the effect of the timing of fungicide application on FHB and mycotoxin (deoxynivalenol and nivalenol) accumulation in cleistogamous barley. Thiophanate-methyl fungicide was applied at different developmental stages, from before anthesis to 30 days after anthesis (DAA), under artificial inoculation conditions in the field in which inoculum spores were provided throughout the testing period. As expected, the optimal timing for chemical control of FHB and mycotoxin accumulation was the time around the beginning of spent anther extrusion rather than at anthesis. Later application, as late as 30 DAA, was also effective in controlling mycotoxin accumulation, although it was not effective in controlling disease levels.
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- Megumi Yoshida
- Research Team for Fusarium Head Blight Control, National Agricultural Research Center for Kyushu Okinawa Region (KONARC), 2421 Suya, Koshi, Kumamoto 861-1192, Japan
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- Research Team for Fusarium Head Blight Control, National Agricultural Research Center for Kyushu Okinawa Region (KONARC), 2421 Suya, Koshi, Kumamoto 861-1192, Japan
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- Research Team for Fusarium Head Blight Control, National Agricultural Research Center for Kyushu Okinawa Region (KONARC), 2421 Suya, Koshi, Kumamoto 861-1192, Japan
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- Research Team for Fusarium Head Blight Control, National Agricultural Research Center for Kyushu Okinawa Region (KONARC), 2421 Suya, Koshi, Kumamoto 861-1192, Japan
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- Research Team for Fusarium Head Blight Control, National Agricultural Research Center for Kyushu Okinawa Region (KONARC), 2421 Suya, Koshi, Kumamoto 861-1192, Japan
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