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Plant environmental memory: implications, mechanisms and opportunities for plant scientists and beyond
Plants are extremely plastic organisms. They continuously receive and integrate environmental information and adjust their growth and development to favour fitness and survival. When this integration of information affects subsequent life stages or the development of subsequent generations, it can b...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10321398/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37415723 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plad032 |
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author | Auge, Gabriela Hankofer, Valentin Groth, Martin Antoniou-Kourounioti, Rea Ratikainen, Irja Lampei, Christian |
author_facet | Auge, Gabriela Hankofer, Valentin Groth, Martin Antoniou-Kourounioti, Rea Ratikainen, Irja Lampei, Christian |
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description | Plants are extremely plastic organisms. They continuously receive and integrate environmental information and adjust their growth and development to favour fitness and survival. When this integration of information affects subsequent life stages or the development of subsequent generations, it can be considered an environmental memory. Thus, plant memory is a relevant mechanism by which plants respond adaptively to different environments. If the cost of maintaining the response is offset by its benefits, it may influence evolutionary trajectories. As such, plant memory has a sophisticated underlying molecular mechanism with multiple components and layers. Nonetheless, when mathematical modelling is combined with knowledge of ecological, physiological, and developmental effects as well as molecular mechanisms as a tool for understanding plant memory, the combined potential becomes unfathomable for the management of plant communities in natural and agricultural ecosystems. In this review, we summarize recent advances in the understanding of plant memory, discuss the ecological requirements for its evolution, outline the multilayered molecular network and mechanisms required for accurate and fail-proof plant responses to variable environments, point out the direct involvement of the plant metabolism and discuss the tremendous potential of various types of models to further our understanding of the plant’s environmental memory. Throughout, we emphasize the use of plant memory as a tool to unlock the secrets of the natural world. |
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spelling | pubmed-103213982023-07-06 Plant environmental memory: implications, mechanisms and opportunities for plant scientists and beyond Auge, Gabriela Hankofer, Valentin Groth, Martin Antoniou-Kourounioti, Rea Ratikainen, Irja Lampei, Christian AoB Plants Review Plants are extremely plastic organisms. They continuously receive and integrate environmental information and adjust their growth and development to favour fitness and survival. When this integration of information affects subsequent life stages or the development of subsequent generations, it can be considered an environmental memory. Thus, plant memory is a relevant mechanism by which plants respond adaptively to different environments. If the cost of maintaining the response is offset by its benefits, it may influence evolutionary trajectories. As such, plant memory has a sophisticated underlying molecular mechanism with multiple components and layers. Nonetheless, when mathematical modelling is combined with knowledge of ecological, physiological, and developmental effects as well as molecular mechanisms as a tool for understanding plant memory, the combined potential becomes unfathomable for the management of plant communities in natural and agricultural ecosystems. In this review, we summarize recent advances in the understanding of plant memory, discuss the ecological requirements for its evolution, outline the multilayered molecular network and mechanisms required for accurate and fail-proof plant responses to variable environments, point out the direct involvement of the plant metabolism and discuss the tremendous potential of various types of models to further our understanding of the plant’s environmental memory. Throughout, we emphasize the use of plant memory as a tool to unlock the secrets of the natural world. Oxford University Press 2023-06-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10321398/ /pubmed/37415723 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plad032 Text en © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Annals of Botany Company. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Auge, Gabriela Hankofer, Valentin Groth, Martin Antoniou-Kourounioti, Rea Ratikainen, Irja Lampei, Christian Plant environmental memory: implications, mechanisms and opportunities for plant scientists and beyond |
title | Plant environmental memory: implications, mechanisms and opportunities for plant scientists and beyond |
title_full | Plant environmental memory: implications, mechanisms and opportunities for plant scientists and beyond |
title_fullStr | Plant environmental memory: implications, mechanisms and opportunities for plant scientists and beyond |
title_full_unstemmed | Plant environmental memory: implications, mechanisms and opportunities for plant scientists and beyond |
title_short | Plant environmental memory: implications, mechanisms and opportunities for plant scientists and beyond |
title_sort | plant environmental memory: implications, mechanisms and opportunities for plant scientists and beyond |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10321398/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37415723 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plad032 |
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