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Manipulation of photosensory and circadian signaling restricts phenotypic plasticity in response to changing environmental conditions in Arabidopsis
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作者 Martin William Battle Scott Fraser Ewing +6 位作者 Cathryn Dickson Joseph Obaje Kristen N.Edgeworth Rebecca Bindbeutel Rea LAntoniou-Kourounioti Dmitri A.Nusinow Matthew Alan Jones 《Molecular Plant》 SCIE CSCD 2024年第9期1458-1471,共14页
Plants exploit phenotypic plasticity to adapt their growth and development to prevailing environmental conditions.Interpretation of light and temperature signals is aided by the circadian system,which provides a tempo... Plants exploit phenotypic plasticity to adapt their growth and development to prevailing environmental conditions.Interpretation of light and temperature signals is aided by the circadian system,which provides a temporal context.Phenotypic plasticity provides a selective and competitive advantage in nature but is obstructive during large-scale,intensive agricultural practices since economically important traits(including vegetative growth and flowering time)can vary widely depending on local environmental condi-tions.This prevents accurate prediction of harvesting times and produces a variable crop.In this study,we sought to restrict phenotypic plasticity and circadian regulation by manipulating signaling systems that govern plants'responses to environmental signals.Mathematical modeling of plant growth and develop-ment predicted reduced plant responses to changing environments when circadian and light signaling pathways were manipulated.We tested this prediction by utilizing a constitutively active allele of the plant photoreceptor phytochrome B,along with disruption of the circadian systemvia mutation of EARLYFLOW-ERING3.We found that these manipulations produced plants that are less responsive to light and temper-ature cues and thus fail to anticipate dawn.These engineered plants have uniform vegetative growth and flowering time,demonstrating how phenotypic plasticity can be limited while maintaining plant productiv-ity.This has significant implications for future agriculture in both open fields and controlled environments. 展开更多
关键词 CIRCADIAN developmental plasticity phenotypic plasticity external coincidence light temperature
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The first cavefish in the Dinaric Karst?Cave colonization made possible by phenotypic plasticity in Telestes karsticus 被引量:1
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作者 MateoČupić Zoran Marčić +2 位作者 Marko Lukić Romana Gračan Helena Bilandžija 《Zoological Research》 SCIE CSCD 2023年第4期821-833,共13页
Cave animals are an excellent model system for studying adaptive evolution.At present,however,little is known about the mechanisms that enable surface colonizers to survive in the challenging environment of caves.One ... Cave animals are an excellent model system for studying adaptive evolution.At present,however,little is known about the mechanisms that enable surface colonizers to survive in the challenging environment of caves.One possibility is that these species have the necessary genetic background to respond with plastic changes to the pressures of underground habitats.To gain insight into this process,we conducted a comparative study with the fish species Telestes karsticus,which occurs in a hydrological system consisting of an interconnected stream and a cave.Results showed that T.karsticus resided year-round and spawned in Sušik cave,making it the first known cavefish in the Dinaric Karst.Cave and surface populations differed in morphological and physiological characteristics,as well as in patterns of gene expression without any evidence of genetic divergence.To test whether observed trait differences were plastic or genetic,we placed adult fish from both populations under light/dark or constant dark conditions.Common laboratory conditions erased all morphometric differences between the two morphs,suggesting phenotypic plasticity is driving the divergence of shape and size in wild fish.Lighter pigmentation and increased fat deposition exhibited by cave individuals were also observed in surface fish kept in the dark in the laboratory.Our study also revealed that specialized cave traits were not solely attributed to developmental plasticity,but also arose from adult responses,including acclimatization.Thus,we conclude that T.karsticus can adapt to cave conditions,with phenotypic plasticity playing an important role in the process of cave colonization. 展开更多
关键词 Maladaptive and adaptive phenotypic plasticity Troglobionts and stygobionts Endemic leuciscid fish ACCLIMATIZATION European cavefish Cave adaptations Gene expression differences
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Phenotypic Plasticity in Response to the Heterogeneous Water Supplyin the Rhizomatous Grass Species, Calamagrostis epigejosin the Mu Us Sandy Land of China 被引量:4
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作者 张称意 于飞海 +1 位作者 陈玉福 董鸣 《Acta Botanica Sinica》 CSCD 2003年第10期1210-1217,共8页
Calamagrostis epigejos (L.) Roth. is a perennial grass with slender and long rhizome segments between interconnected neighbor ramets. To investigate the phenotypic plasticity in response to the heterogeneous soil wate... Calamagrostis epigejos (L.) Roth. is a perennial grass with slender and long rhizome segments between interconnected neighbor ramets. To investigate the phenotypic plasticity in response to the heterogeneous soil water supply, ramet pairs of the species were subjected to heterogeneous water supply by which either mother ramets or daughter ramets were in high or low soil water supply, respectively, in the Maowusu (Mu Us) Sandy Land of Nei Mongol. The results showed that the phenotypic characteristics of the individual ramets of C epigejos were greatly influenced by the heterogeneous water supply. The ramets treated with high water supply significantly produced more new rhizomes and more offspring (ramets), and accumulated more shoot biomass, and allocated more biomass to their shoots than those treated with low water supply. In comparison with the daughter ramets in homogeneous soil water supply, phenotypic characteristics, in terms of new rhizome growth, the production of new offspring, and the biomass allocation pattern, of the daughter ramets within the pairs of the species were not significantly changed, no matter that high or low soil water supply to mother ramets. The phenotypic responses of mother ramets to soil water supply were similar to those of daughter ramets. From these results, it is inferred that the interconnected ramets of C epigejos response phenotypically to their local soil water rather than to the soil water experienced by the interconnected ramets. The interconnected ramets of C epigejos might be independent of each other in water relationship, although they are physically interconnected with rhizome segments. The physiological independence of interconnected ramets might facilitate the risk spreading and thus enhance the genet survivorship under the frequent drought stresses in Mu Us Sandland. 展开更多
关键词 phenotypic plasticity heterogeneous soil water Calamagrostis epikejos ramet pairs RHIZOME clonal plants Maowusu (Mu Us) Sandy Land
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Phenotypic plasticity in response to soil moisture availability in the clonal plant Eremosparton songoricum (Litv.) Vass. 被引量:6
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作者 JianCheng WANG Xiang SHI +1 位作者 DaoYuan ZHANG LinKe YIN 《Journal of Arid Land》 SCIE 2011年第1期34-39,共6页
Eremosparton songoricum (Litv.) Vass is a dwarf clonal shrubby legume developed on the windward slopes of mobile or semi-fixed sand dunes of Central Asia. It is assumed that E. songoricum must possess a high degree ... Eremosparton songoricum (Litv.) Vass is a dwarf clonal shrubby legume developed on the windward slopes of mobile or semi-fixed sand dunes of Central Asia. It is assumed that E. songoricum must possess a high degree of phenotypic plasticity for such a heterogeneous habitat. The variations of E. songoricum plants growing in two typical microhabitats (the upper slope and the lower slope of semi-mobile dune) were investigated. The morphological characteristics and the biomass allocation patterns were measured and compared at the clonal fragment level. Compared with the clonal fragment on the lower slope of dune, the clonal fragment on the upper slope of the dune (a) declined in total biomass and ramet height, (b) increased the length of rhizomes and the number of roots, (c) increased the degree of asym- metry, and (d) heightened allocation to the belowground biomass. Our results confirmed the hypothesis of high phenotypic adjustment capacity of E. songoricum to habitat moisture availability. Phenotypic plasticity of E. songoricum contributed to reduce the damage risk, led to an environmentally induced specialization in function of resources exploitation, resulted in its persistence in heterogeneous environments and was adaptive in sand dune environment. 展开更多
关键词 Eremosparton songoricum moisture availability phenotypic plasticity sand dune
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Phenotypic plasticity of floral traits and pollination adaption in an alpine plant Pedicularis siphonantha D. Don when transplanted from higher to lower elevation in Eastern Himalaya 被引量:2
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作者 DAI Wen-Kui AMBOKA Grace Mercy +2 位作者 KADIORI Edwin Luguba WANG Qing-Feng YANG Chun-Feng 《Journal of Mountain Science》 SCIE CSCD 2017年第10期1995-2002,共8页
Phenotypic plasticity and/or pollinatormediated selection may be responsible for the changes in floral traits of plants when they are forced to live in new conditions. Although the two events could be independent, we ... Phenotypic plasticity and/or pollinatormediated selection may be responsible for the changes in floral traits of plants when they are forced to live in new conditions. Although the two events could be independent, we hypothesized that phenotypic plasticity in floral traits might help to coordinate plant-pollinator interactions and enhance plant reproductive success in changing habitats. To test this hypothesis, we investigated floral traits and pollination on three natural populations of a lousewort(Pedicularis siphonantha) ranging at different elevations, as well as two downward transplanted populations in Shangeri-La County and Deqin County, northwest Yunnan, China. The results indicated that floral traits, i.e. phenology, longevity,display size, corolla tube length and pollen production differed significantly among populations. Moreover,or the two transplanted populations, floral traits diverged from their original populations, but converged to their host populations. Although the phenotypic plasticity in floral traits might be a rapid response to abiotic factor such as warmer environment, the changes in floral traits were found to be well adapted to pollination environment of the host population. Compared with plants of their original habitats in higher elevation, the transplanted individuals advanced flowering time, shortened flower longevity, reduced floral display size and pollen production, received higher visiting frequency and yielded more seeds. These findings suggested that phenotypic plasticity of floral traits might help plants adjust their resource allocation strategy between preand post-pollination stages in response to harsh or temperate conditions, which might correspondingly meet a pollinator-poor or hyphen rich environment.This would be beneficial for the widely-distributed species to adapt to various environmental changes. 展开更多
关键词 Alpine plant Bumble bee Pedicularis siphonantha phenotypic plasticity in floral traits
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Phenotypic plasticity in the monoclonal marbled crayfish is associated with very low genetic diversity but pronounced epigenetic diversity
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作者 Günter Vogt 《Current Zoology》 SCIE CAS CSCD 2023年第4期426-441,共16页
Clonal organisms are particularly useful to investigate the contribution of epigenetics to phenotypic plasticity,because confounding effects of genetic variation are negligible.In the last decade,the apomictic parthen... Clonal organisms are particularly useful to investigate the contribution of epigenetics to phenotypic plasticity,because confounding effects of genetic variation are negligible.In the last decade,the apomictic parthenogenetic marbled crayfish,Procambarus virginalis,has been developed as a model to investigate the relationships between phenotypic plasticity and genetic and epigenetic diversity in detail.This crayfish originated about 30 years ago by autotriploidy from a single slough crayfish Procambarus fallax.As the result of human releases and active spreading,marbled crayfish has established numerous populations in very diverse habitats in 22 countries from the tropics to cold temperate regions.Studies in the laboratory and field revealed considerable plasticity in coloration,spination,morphometric parameters,growth,food preference,population structure,trophic position,and niche width.Illumina and PacBio whole-genome sequencing of marbled crayfish from representatives of 19 populations in Europe and Madagascar demonstrated extremely low genetic diversity within and among populations,indicating that the observed phenotypic diversity and ability to live in strikingly different environments are not due to adaptation by selection on genetic variation.In contrast,considerable differences were found between populations in the DNA methylation patterns of hundreds of genes,suggesting that the environmentally induced phenotypic plasticity is mediated by epigenetic mechanisms and corresponding changes in gene expression.Specific DNA methylation fingerprints persisted in local populations over successive years indicating the existence of epigenetic ecotypes,but there is presently no information as to whether these epigenetic signatures are transgenerationally inherited or established anew in each generation and whether the recorded phenotypic plasticity is adaptive or nonadaptive. 展开更多
关键词 DNA methylation environmental adaptation EPIGENETICS epigenetic ecotypes marbled crayfish phenotypic plasticity whole-genome sequencing
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Modeling the influence of phenotypic plasticity on maize hybrid performance
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作者 Ran Fu Xiangfeng Wang 《Plant Communications》 SCIE CSCD 2023年第3期288-301,共14页
Phenotypic plasticity,the ability of an individual to alter its phenotype in response to changes in the environment,has been proposed as a target for breeding crop varieties with high environmental fitness.Here,we use... Phenotypic plasticity,the ability of an individual to alter its phenotype in response to changes in the environment,has been proposed as a target for breeding crop varieties with high environmental fitness.Here,we used phenotypic and genotypic data from multiple maize(Zea mays L.)populations to mathematically model phenotypic plasticity in response to the environment(PPRE)in inbred and hybrid lines.PPRE can be simply described by a linear model in which the two main parameters,intercept a and slope b,reflect two classes of genes responsive to endogenous(class A)and exogenous(class B)signals that coordinate plant development.Together,class A and class B genes contribute to the phenotypic plasticity of an individual in response to the environment.We also made connections between phenotypic plasticity and hybrid performance or general combining ability(GCA)of yield using 30 F_(1) hybrid populations generated by crossing the same maternal line with 30 paternal lines from different maize heterotic groups.We show that the parameters a and b from two given parental lines must be concordant to reach an ideal GCA of F_(1) yield.We hypothesize that coordinated regulation of the two classes of genes in the F_(1) hybrid genome is the basis for high GCA.Based on this theory,we built a series of predictive models to evaluate GCA in silico between parental lines of different heterotic groups. 展开更多
关键词 phenotypic plasticity genotype-by-environment interaction genomic selection hybrid performance general combining ability
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Genetic interrogation of phenotypic plasticity informs genome-enabled breeding in cotton
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作者 Yuefan Huang Zhengyang Qi +3 位作者 Jianying Li Jiaqi You Xianlong Zhang Maojun Wang 《Journal of Genetics and Genomics》 SCIE CSCD 2023年第12期971-982,共12页
Phenotypic plasticity, or the ability to adapt to and thrive in changing climates and variable environments, is essential for developmental programs in plants. Despite its importance, the genetic underpinnings of phen... Phenotypic plasticity, or the ability to adapt to and thrive in changing climates and variable environments, is essential for developmental programs in plants. Despite its importance, the genetic underpinnings of phenotypic plasticity for key agronomic traits remain poorly understood in many crops. In this study, we aim to fill this gap by using genome-wide association studies to identify genetic variations associated with phenotypic plasticity in upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). We identified 73 additive quantitative trait loci (QTLs), 32 dominant QTLs, and 6799 epistatic QTLs associated with 20 traits. We also identified 117 additive QTLs, 28 dominant QTLs, and 4691 epistatic QTLs associated with phenotypic plasticity in 19 traits. Our findings reveal new genetic factors, including additive, dominant, and epistatic QTLs, that are linked to phenotypic plasticity and agronomic traits. Meanwhile, we find that the genetic factors controlling the mean phenotype and phenotypic plasticity are largely independent in upland cotton, indicating the potential for simultaneous improvement. Additionally, we envision a genomic design strategy by utilizing the identified QTLs to facilitate cotton breeding. Taken together, our study provides new insights into the genetic basis of phenotypic plasticity in cotton, which should be valuable for future breeding. 展开更多
关键词 COTTON Phenotype plasticity Genotype-environment interaction Genomic selection Genome-wide association studies
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Phenotypic Plasticity of Life History Characteristics: Quantitative Analysis of Delayed Reproduction of Green Foxtail (Setaria viridis) in the Songnen Plain of China 被引量:2
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作者 Hai-Yan Li Yun-Fei Yang 《Journal of Integrative Plant Biology》 SCIE CAS CSCD 2008年第6期641-647,共7页
Green foxtail (Setaria viridis L.) is a common weed species in temperate regions. Research on the effect of delayed reproduction on the phenotypic plasticity and regularity of the vegetative and reproductive growth ... Green foxtail (Setaria viridis L.) is a common weed species in temperate regions. Research on the effect of delayed reproduction on the phenotypic plasticity and regularity of the vegetative and reproductive growth is of vital significance for understanding population regulation and control of the weed in the growing season. Green foxtail seeds were sown every 10 days from 25 June to 24 August of 2004. The growth and production metrics were measured via harvesting tufts and statistical analysis was carried out. The results showed that the reproductive tillers, seed number, seed biomass and one thousand-seed weight of plants at the first sowing (25 June) approximately increased 28.8, 7 827.0, 1 104,0 and 12.3 times compared with that at the last sowing (24 August), respectively. Total tillers, reproductive tillers and height increased linearly as the reproductive period delayed, however, biomass increased exponentially. Quadratic equations best explained the relationships between the delayed reproductive period and seed number, inflorescence length, one thousand-seed weight, seed biomass. Based on the quantity and quality of seed production, weeding young seedlings emerging before July can be the most effective weed-control strategy in the Songnen Plain. 展开更多
关键词 delayed reproduction life history phenotypic plasticity quantitative characteristics Setaria viridis weed control
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The evolution of phenotypic plasticity in fish swimming 被引量:2
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作者 Christopher E. OUFIERO Katrina R. WHITLOW 《Current Zoology》 SCIE CAS CSCD 2016年第5期475-488,共14页
Fish have a remarkable amount of variation in their swimming performance, from within species dif- ferences to diversity among major taxonomic groups. Fish swimming is a complex, integrative phenotype and has the abil... Fish have a remarkable amount of variation in their swimming performance, from within species dif- ferences to diversity among major taxonomic groups. Fish swimming is a complex, integrative phenotype and has the ability to plastically respond to a myriad of environmental changes. The plasticity of fish swimming has been observed on whole-organismal traits such as burst speed or critical swimming speed, as well as underlying phenotypes such as muscle fiber types, kinematics, cardiovascular system, and neuronal processes. Whether the plastic responses of fish swimming are beneficial seems to depend on the environmental variable that is changing. For example, because of the effects of temperature on biochemical processes, alterations of fish swimming in response to tem- perature do not seem to be beneficial. In contrast, changes in fish swimming in response to variation in flow may benefit the fish to maintain position in the water column. In this paper, we examine how this plasticity in fish swimming might evolve, focusing on environmental variables that have received the most attention: temperature, habitat, dissolved oxygen, and carbon dioxide variation. Using examples from previous research, we highlight many of the ways fish swimming can plastic- ally respond to environmental variation and discuss potential avenues of future research aimed at understanding how plasticity of fish swimming might evolve. We consider the direct and indirect ef- fects of environmental variation on swimming performance, including changes in swimming kine- matics and suborganismal traits thought to predict swimming performance. We also discuss the role of the evolution of plasticity in shaping macroevolutionary patterns of diversity in fish swimming. 展开更多
关键词 environmental variation EVOLUTION FISH phenotypic plasticity swimming kinematics swimming performance.
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RPL1, a Gene Involved in Epigenetic Processes Regulates Phenotypic Plasticity in Rice 被引量:2
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作者 Cui-Cui Zhang Wen-Ya Yuan Qi-Fa Zhang 《Molecular Plant》 SCIE CAS CSCD 2012年第2期482-493,共12页
Organisms can adjust their phenotype in response to changing environmental conditions. This phenomenon is termed phenotypic plasticity. Despite its ubiquitous occurrence, there has been very little study on the molecu... Organisms can adjust their phenotype in response to changing environmental conditions. This phenomenon is termed phenotypic plasticity. Despite its ubiquitous occurrence, there has been very little study on the molecular mechanism of phenotypic plasticity. In this study, we isolated a rice (Oryza sativa L.) mutant, rice plasticity 1 (rpl1), that displayed increased environment-dependent phenotypic variations. RPL1 was expressed in all tissues examined. The protein was localized in the nucleus and its distribution in the nucleus overlapped with heterochromatin. The rpll mutation led to an increase in DNA methylation on repetitive sequences and a decrease in overall histone acetylation. In addition, the mutation affected responses of the rice plant to phytohormones such as brassinosteroid, gibberellin, and cytokinin. Analysis of the putative rice brassinosteroid receptor OsBRI1, a key hormone signaling gene, indicated that RPL1 may be involved in the regulation of epigenomic modification of the gene. These data suggest that RPL1 regulated phenotypic plasticity likely through its involvement in epigenetic processes affecting responses of the plant to phytohormones. 展开更多
关键词 phenotypic plasticity RPL1 EPIGENETICS PHYTOHORMONE evolution.
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Phenotypic plasticity Gasterosteus aculeatus ence in captivity of the threespine stickleback telencephalon in response to experi-
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《Current Zoology》 SCIE CAS CSCD 2012年第1期189-210,共22页
Threespine stickleback were used to examine phenotypic plasticity of telencephala in relation to inferred ecology. Fish from derived, allopatric, freshwater populations were sampled from three shallow, structurally co... Threespine stickleback were used to examine phenotypic plasticity of telencephala in relation to inferred ecology. Fish from derived, allopatric, freshwater populations were sampled from three shallow, structurally complex lakes with ben- thic-foraging stickleback (benthics) and from three deep, structurally simple lakes with planktivores (limnetics). The telencepha- Ion of specimens preserved immediately after capture (field-preserved), field-caught fish held in aquaria for 90 days (lab-held), and lab-bred fish from crosses and raised in aquaria were compared. Field-preserved sea-run (ancestral) stickleback were col- lected from two separate sites, and parents of lab-bred sea-run stickleback were collected from one of these sites. In field-preserved and lab-held fish, the telencephala of limnetics exhibited triangular dorsal shape, while those of benthics and sea-run fish had rounder shapes. No such pattern was detected in lab-bred fish. Within each treatment type, benthics had larger relative telencephalon sizes, using overall brain size as the covariate, than limnetics. Among field-preserved samples, sea-run fish had smaller telencephalon sizes than lake fish. Intra-population analyses of lake samples showed that field-preserved fish consis- tently had larger relative telencephalon sizes than lab-bred fish. The opposite was true of the sea-run population. In a separate study using one benthic population and one limnetic population, samples were preserved in the field immediately or held in the lab for 30, 60, and 90 days before they were sacrificed. In both populations, the telencephalon shapes of lab-held fish were similar to those of field-preserved fish but became progressively more like lab-bred ones over 90 days. In contrast, relative telencephalon size decreased dramatically by 30 days after which there was littie change. In freshwater threespine stickleback, the telencephalon exhibits considerable phenotypic plasticity, which was probably present in the ancestor [Current Zoology 58 (1): 189-210, 2012]. 展开更多
关键词 TELENCEPHALON phenotypic plasticity Brain plasticity Spatial learning Adaptive radiation HIPPOCAMPUS
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Role of phenotypic plasticity in morphological differentiation between watersnake populations
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作者 Ian T.CLIFTON Jeremy D.CHAMBERLAIN Matthew E.GIFFORD 《Integrative Zoology》 SCIE CSCD 2020年第4期329-337,共9页
An individual’s morphology is shaped by the environmental pressures it experiences,and the resulting morphological response is the culmination of both genetic factors and environmental(non-genetic)conditions experien... An individual’s morphology is shaped by the environmental pressures it experiences,and the resulting morphological response is the culmination of both genetic factors and environmental(non-genetic)conditions experienced early in its life(i.e.phenotypic plasticity).The role that phenotypic plasticity plays in shaping phenotypes is important,but evidence for its influence is often mixed.We exposed female neonate diamond-backed watersnakes(Nerodia rhombifer)from populations experiencing different prey-size regimes to different feeding treatments to test the influence of phenotypic plasticity in shaping trophic morphology.We found that snakes in a large-prey treatment from a population frequently encountering large prey exhibited a higher growth rate in body size than individuals in a small-prey treatment from the same population.This pattern was not observed in snakes from a population that regularly encounters small prey.We also found that regardless of treatment,snakes from the smallprey population were smaller at birth than snakes from the large-prey population and remained so throughout the study.These results suggest that the ability to plastically respond to environmental pressures may be populationspecific.These results also indicate a genetic predisposition towards larger body sizes in a population where large prey items are more common. 展开更多
关键词 common garden diamond-backed watersnake local adaptation phenotypic plasticity trophic morphology
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Significance of differential allelic expression in phenotypic plasticity and evolutionary potential of microbial eukaryotes
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作者 Ben P.Tatman Thomas Mock +1 位作者 Taoyang Wu Cock van Oosterhout 《Quantitative Biology》 CSCD 2021年第4期400-410,共11页
Background:Differential allelic expression(DAE)plays a key role in the regularion of many biological processes,and it may also play a role in adaptive evolution.Recently,environment-dependent DAE has been observed in ... Background:Differential allelic expression(DAE)plays a key role in the regularion of many biological processes,and it may also play a role in adaptive evolution.Recently,environment-dependent DAE has been observed in species of marine phytoplankton,and most remarkably,alleles that showed the highest level of DAE also showed the fastest rate of evolution.Methods:To better understand the role of DAE in adaptive evolution and phenotypic plasticity,we developed a 2-D cellular automata model“DAEsy-World”that builds on the classical Daisyworld model.Results:Simulations show that DAE delineates the evolution of alternative alleles of a gene,enabling the two alleles to adapt to different environmental conditions and sub-functionalize.With DAE,the build-up of genetic polymorphisms within genes is driven by positive selection rather than strict neutral evolution,and this can enhance phenotypic plasticity.Moreover,in sexually reproducing organisms,DAE also increased the standing genetic variation,augmenting a species’adaptive evolutionary potential and ability to respond to fluctuating and/or changing conditions(cf,genetic assimilation).We furthermore show that DAE is likely to evolve in fluctuating environmental conditions.Conclusions:DAE increases the adaptive evolutionary potential of both sexual and asexually reproducing organisms,and it may affect the pattern of nucleotide substitutions of genes. 展开更多
关键词 differential allelic expression daisyworld model adaptive evolution phenotypic plasticity
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Leaf phenotypic variation in natural populations of Carpinus tschonoskii in China
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作者 Runan Zhao Xiaojie Chu +2 位作者 Qianqian He Wei Liu Zunling Zhu 《Journal of Forestry Research》 SCIE CAS CSCD 2023年第5期1591-1602,共12页
Carpinus tschonoskii Maxim.exhibits rich leaf phenotypic variation and various leaf shapes,but few studies show why leaf phenotypic traits have such a large variation.Basic morphological markers may provide guidance f... Carpinus tschonoskii Maxim.exhibits rich leaf phenotypic variation and various leaf shapes,but few studies show why leaf phenotypic traits have such a large variation.Basic morphological markers may provide guidance for studying plant genetic variation and species protection and utilization.To study leaf phenotypic variations and the relationship between variation characteristics and climatic and geographical factors,phenotypic traits among natural populations were investigated.Results revealed that leaf phenotypes varied significantly among and within populations.Some populations had higher phenotypic diversity,while others had lower phenotypic diversity.Among the phenotypic traits,leaf area and petiole length had the most variation.Leaf index and primary lateral veins were the most stable phenotypes,which may be important reference indexes for phenotype identification in field investigations.There was a strong consistency between leaf phenotypic traits and geographical location.Plants in high latitudes tend to have longer leaves,and plants in low temperatures tend to have longer leaves and larger leaf perimeter.In addition,plants in areas with less rainfall have longer petioles.The 13 populations of C.tschonoskii can be divided into four branches by cluster analysis,and the results show a good relationship with the geographical location of each population.Additionally,some populations geographically isolated also had unique leaf phenotypes. 展开更多
关键词 Carpinus tschonoskii Leaf phenotypes phenotypic plasticity Environmental factors Conservation measures
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Causal Analysis Between Rice Growth and Cadmium Accumulation and Transfer under Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Inoculation
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作者 ZHAO Ting WANG Li +1 位作者 YANG Jixian MA Fang 《Rice science》 SCIE CSCD 2024年第2期226-236,共11页
Cadmium(Cd)contamination in rice has been a serious threat to human health.To investigate the effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi(AMF)on the Cd translocation in rice,a controlled pot experiment was conducted.The r... Cadmium(Cd)contamination in rice has been a serious threat to human health.To investigate the effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi(AMF)on the Cd translocation in rice,a controlled pot experiment was conducted.The results indicated that AMF significantly increased rice biomass,with an increase of up to 40.0%,particularly in root biomass by up to 68.4%.Notably,the number of prominent rice individuals also increased,and their plasticity was enhanced following AMF inoculation.AMF led to an increase in the net photosynthetic rate and antioxidant enzyme activity of rice.In the AMF treatment group,the Cd concentration in the rice roots was significantly higher(19.1%‒68.0%)compared with that in the control group.Conversely,the Cd concentration in the rice seeds was lower in the AMF treatment group,indicating that AMF facilitated the sequestration of Cd in rice roots and reduced Cd accumulation in the seeds.Path coefficients varied across different treatments,suggesting that AMF inoculation reduced the direct impact of soil Cd concentration on the total Cd accumulation in seeds.The translocation of Cd was consistently associated with simultaneous growth dilution and compensatory accumulation as a result of mycorrhizal effects.Our study quantitatively analyzed this process through path analysis and clarified the causal relationship between rice growth and Cd transfer under the influence of AMF. 展开更多
关键词 cadmium transfer dilution effect heavy metal immobilization mycorrhizal effect path analysis phenotypic plasticity
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Plasticity in Metamorphic Traits of Rice Field Frog(Rana limnocharis) Tadpoles:The Interactive Effects of Rearing Temperature and Food Level 被引量:1
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作者 Tonglei YU Guifang YANG +1 位作者 Michael BUSAM Yaohui DENG 《Asian Herpetological Research》 SCIE CSCD 2016年第4期265-270,共6页
In organisms with complex life cycles, such as amphibians, morphological variation is strongly influenced by environmental factors (e.g. temperature) and maternal effects (e.g. diet). Although temperature and food... In organisms with complex life cycles, such as amphibians, morphological variation is strongly influenced by environmental factors (e.g. temperature) and maternal effects (e.g. diet). Although temperature and food level exert a strong influence on larval growth, little is known about the interacting effects of these factors on age and size at metamorphosis. In this study, plasticity in growth rates, survival, larval period, and size at metamorphosis were examined in Rice field Frog (Rana limnocharis) under different combinations of rearing temperature and food level. Rearing temperature did not affect age at metamorphosis, but a significant interaction between temperature and food level revealed that of tadpoles feeding at a high food level, those reared at 32℃ had a shorter length of larval period than those reared at 29℃ or 26℃. Similarly, our results also showed high food level produced a larger growth rate and mass at metamorphosis at 32℃, but not at 29 and 26℃. Therefore, our results revealed that the effects of food level on larval growth and metamorphosis were highly dependent on developmental temperature. 展开更多
关键词 METAMORPHOSIS Rana limnocharis larval period phenotypic plasticity rearing temperature food level
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Fate of rubber bush (Calotropis procera (Aiton) W. T. Aiton) in adversary environment modulated by microstructural and functional attributes
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作者 Ummar IQBAL Mansoor HAMEED +2 位作者 Farooq AHMAD Muhammad S AAHMAD Muhammad ASHRAF 《Journal of Arid Land》 SCIE CSCD 2023年第5期578-601,共24页
Calotropis procera(Aiton)W.T.Aiton,belonging to the family Apocynaceae,is C3 evergreen plant species in arid and semi-arid areas of the Punjab Province,Pakistan.It grows in a variety of habitats like salt affected and... Calotropis procera(Aiton)W.T.Aiton,belonging to the family Apocynaceae,is C3 evergreen plant species in arid and semi-arid areas of the Punjab Province,Pakistan.It grows in a variety of habitats like salt affected and waterlogged area,desert/semi-desert,roadside,wasteland,graveyard,forest,crop field,coastline,and river/canal bank.A total of 12 populations growing in different ecological regions were sampled to evaluate their growth,physio-biochemical,and anatomical responses to specific environmental condition.Population adapted to desert/semi-desert showed vigorous growth(plant height,shoot length,and number of leaves),enhanced photosynthetic level(chlorophyll a,chlorophyll b,carotenoids,and total chlorophyll),and apparent anatomical modifications such as increased stem radius,cuticle thickness,storage parenchyma tissues(cortex and pith),and vascular bundles in stems,while the maximum of midrib and lamina thickness,epidermal cells,cuticle thickness,cortical proportion,abaxial stomatal density,and its area in leaves.There was high plasticity in structural and functional features of these populations,which enable them to survive and tolerate under such hot and dry desert environment.Population of saline areas exhibited very critical modifications to sustain under salt prone environment.At physiological level,it possesses the maximum amount of organic osmolytes(glycine betaine and proline)and antioxidants(superoxide dismutase(SOD),catalase(CAT),and peroxidase(POD)),while at anatomical level,it showed intensive sclerification,large phloem region(inner and outer),pith parenchyma cells,and metaxylem vessels in stems and leaves.The population of dry mountains showed very distinctive features,such as increased shoot ionic contents(K+and Ca2+),collenchyma and sclerenchyma thickness in stems,trichomes size,and numerous small stomata on abaxial surface of leaves.It is concluded that no definite or precise single character can be taken as a yardstick for adjudging the biomass production in this rubber bush weed population. 展开更多
关键词 Calotropis procera APOCYNACEAE phenotypic plasticity ARIDITY rubber bush
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A highly effective incubation strategy enhanced the urban bird hatch success
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作者 Long Ma Yuancheng Liu +9 位作者 Wenjing Lu Zheng Zhang Wanyou Li Ziwei Zhang Xueli Zhang Chaoying Zhu Junpeng Bai Zhifeng Xu Yuqing Han Luzhang Ruan 《Avian Research》 SCIE CSCD 2023年第1期25-32,共8页
Urbanization is currently considered one of the most rapid types of global environmental change.Urban habitats are biotically and abiotically different from their rural areas,i.e.,the ambient temperature,predator,and ... Urbanization is currently considered one of the most rapid types of global environmental change.Urban habitats are biotically and abiotically different from their rural areas,i.e.,the ambient temperature,predator,and food availability.These novel challenges create new selection pressures,which allow one to investigate ecoevolutionary responses to contemporary environmental change.A total of 118 breeding nests were monitored for nest predation in both urban and rural areas from 2018 to 2020.We used environmental factors from urban and rural areas and behavioral data from 439 Chinese Blackbird(Turdus mandarinus)valid incubation days to understand the impact of urbanization on the incubation behavior of blackbirds and its adaptation mechanism to the urban environment.Cities have warmer ambient temperatures and lower predation pressures than rural areas.Urban blackbirds chose the incubation strategy with shorter and more bouts,while rural blackbirds selected the incubation strategy with longer and fewer bouts.The plasticity of incubation behavior of urban blackbirds was higher than that of rural areas,and the range of egg temperature was also higher than that of rural areas.In addition,incubation temperature and the number of bouts per day were the key factors affecting the day survival rate of blackbirds,and the hatching rate of urban blackbirds was higher than that of rural blackbirds.Our results provide evidence for behavioral shifts in blackbirds during adaptation to urbanization and support the central role of behavioral adaptation in the successful colonization of new environments by wildlife.These help us understand the behavioral characteristics required for wildlife to live in cities and the urban adaptors faced environmental pressures. 展开更多
关键词 Ambient temperature Inaubation behavior Parental care phenotypic plasticity Predation risk
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Body color plasticity of Diaphorina citri reflects a response to environmental stress
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作者 Jiayao Fan Feng Shang +5 位作者 Huimin Pan Chenyang Yuan Tianyuan Liu Long Yi Jinjun Wang Wei Dou 《Insect Science》 SCIE CAS CSCD 2024年第3期937-952,共16页
Body color polyphenism is common in Diaphorina citri.Previous studies compared physiological characteristics in D.citri,but the ecological and biological significance of its body color polyphenism remains poorly under... Body color polyphenism is common in Diaphorina citri.Previous studies compared physiological characteristics in D.citri,but the ecological and biological significance of its body color polyphenism remains poorly understood.We studied the ecological and molecular effects of stressors related to body color in D.citri.Crowding or low temperature induced a high proportion of gray morphs,which had smaller bodies,lower body weight,and greater susceptibility to the insecticide dinotefuran.We performed transcriptomic and metabolomics analysis of 2 color morphs in D.citri.Gene expression dynamics revealed that the differentially expressed genes were predominantly involved in energy metabolism,including fatty acid metabolism,amino acid metabolism,and carbohydrate metabolism.Among these genes,plexin,glycosidase,phospholipase,take out,trypsin,and triacylglycerol lipase were differentially expressed in 2 color morphs,and 6 hsps(3 hsp70,hsp83,hsp90,hsp68)were upregulated in gray morphs.The metabolome data showed that blue morphs exhibited a higher abundance of fatty acid and amino acid,whereas the content of carbohydrates was elevated in gray morphs.This study partly explains the body color polyphenism of D.citri and provides insights into the molecular changes of stress response of D.citri. 展开更多
关键词 body color energy metabolism environmental stress phenotypic plasticity POLYPHENISM trade-off
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