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Anticipatory Behavior of the Clonal Plant Fragaria vesca
Active foraging for patchy resources is a crucial feature of many clonal plant species. It has been recently shown that plants’ foraging for resources can be facilitated by anticipatory behavior via association of resource position with other environmental cues. We therefore tested whether clones of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6297673/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30619415 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01847 |
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author | Latzel, Vít Münzbergová, Zuzana |
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description | Active foraging for patchy resources is a crucial feature of many clonal plant species. It has been recently shown that plants’ foraging for resources can be facilitated by anticipatory behavior via association of resource position with other environmental cues. We therefore tested whether clones of Fragaria vesca are able to associate and memorize positions of soil nutrients with particular light intensity, which will consequently enable them anticipating nutrients in new environment. We trained clones of F. vesca for nutrients to occur either in shade or in light. Consequently, we tested their growth response to differing light intensity in the absence of soil nutrients. We also manipulated epigenetic status of a subset of the clones to test the role of DNA methylation in the anticipatory behavior. Clones of F. vesca were able to associate presence of nutrients with particular light intensity, which enabled them to anticipate nutrient positions in the new environment based on its light intensity. Clones that had been trained for nutrients to occur in shade increased placement of ramets to shade whereas clones trained for nutrients to occur in light increased biomass of ramets in light. Our study clearly shows that the clonal plant F. vesca is able to relate two environmental factors, light and soil nutrients, and use this connection in anticipatory behavior. We conclude that anticipatory behavior can substantially improve the ability of clonal plants to utilize scarce and unevenly distributed resources. |
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spelling | pubmed-62976732019-01-07 Anticipatory Behavior of the Clonal Plant Fragaria vesca Latzel, Vít Münzbergová, Zuzana Front Plant Sci Plant Science Active foraging for patchy resources is a crucial feature of many clonal plant species. It has been recently shown that plants’ foraging for resources can be facilitated by anticipatory behavior via association of resource position with other environmental cues. We therefore tested whether clones of Fragaria vesca are able to associate and memorize positions of soil nutrients with particular light intensity, which will consequently enable them anticipating nutrients in new environment. We trained clones of F. vesca for nutrients to occur either in shade or in light. Consequently, we tested their growth response to differing light intensity in the absence of soil nutrients. We also manipulated epigenetic status of a subset of the clones to test the role of DNA methylation in the anticipatory behavior. Clones of F. vesca were able to associate presence of nutrients with particular light intensity, which enabled them to anticipate nutrient positions in the new environment based on its light intensity. Clones that had been trained for nutrients to occur in shade increased placement of ramets to shade whereas clones trained for nutrients to occur in light increased biomass of ramets in light. Our study clearly shows that the clonal plant F. vesca is able to relate two environmental factors, light and soil nutrients, and use this connection in anticipatory behavior. We conclude that anticipatory behavior can substantially improve the ability of clonal plants to utilize scarce and unevenly distributed resources. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-12-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6297673/ /pubmed/30619415 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01847 Text en Copyright © 2018 Latzel and Münzbergová. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Plant Science Latzel, Vít Münzbergová, Zuzana Anticipatory Behavior of the Clonal Plant Fragaria vesca |
title | Anticipatory Behavior of the Clonal Plant Fragaria vesca |
title_full | Anticipatory Behavior of the Clonal Plant Fragaria vesca |
title_fullStr | Anticipatory Behavior of the Clonal Plant Fragaria vesca |
title_full_unstemmed | Anticipatory Behavior of the Clonal Plant Fragaria vesca |
title_short | Anticipatory Behavior of the Clonal Plant Fragaria vesca |
title_sort | anticipatory behavior of the clonal plant fragaria vesca |
topic | Plant Science |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6297673/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30619415 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01847 |
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