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Geographic Variation in the Petiole–Lamina Relationship of 325 Eastern Qinghai–Tibetan Woody Species: Analysis in Three Dimensions

The petiole–lamina relationship is central to the functional tradeoff between photosynthetic efficiency and the support/protection cost. Understanding environmental gradients in the relationship and its underlying mechanisms remains a critical challenge for ecologists. We investigated the possible s...

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Autores principales: Li, Yanan, Kang, Xiaomei, Zhou, Jieyang, Zhao, Zhigang, Zhang, Shiting, Bu, Haiyan, Qi, Wei
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8583490/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34777427
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.748125
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author Li, Yanan
Kang, Xiaomei
Zhou, Jieyang
Zhao, Zhigang
Zhang, Shiting
Bu, Haiyan
Qi, Wei
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Kang, Xiaomei
Zhou, Jieyang
Zhao, Zhigang
Zhang, Shiting
Bu, Haiyan
Qi, Wei
author_sort Li, Yanan
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description The petiole–lamina relationship is central to the functional tradeoff between photosynthetic efficiency and the support/protection cost. Understanding environmental gradients in the relationship and its underlying mechanisms remains a critical challenge for ecologists. We investigated the possible scaling of the petiole–lamina relationships in three dimensions, i.e., petiole length (PL) vs. lamina length (LL), petiole cross sectional area (PCA) vs. lamina area (LA), and petiole mass (PM) vs. lamina mass (LM), for 325 Qinghai–Tibetan woody species, and examined their relation to leaf form, altitude, climate, and vegetation types. Both crossspecies analysis and meta-analysis showed significantly isometric, negatively allometric, and positively allometric scaling of the petiole–lamina relationships in the length, area, and mass dimensions, respectively, reflecting an equal, slower, and faster variation in the petiole than in the lamina in these trait dimensions. Along altitudinal gradients, the effect size of the petiole–lamina relationship decreased in the length and mass dimensions but increased in the area dimension, suggesting the importance of enhancing leaf light-interception and nutrient transport efficiency in the warm zones in petiole development, but enhancing leaf support/protection in the cold zones. The significant additional influences of LA, LM, and LA were observed on the PL–LL, PCA–LA, and PM–LM relationships, respectively, implying that the single-dimension petiole trait is affected simultaneously by multidimensional lamina traits. Relative to simple-leaved species, the presence of petiolule in compound-leaved species can increase both leaf light interception and static gravity loads or dynamic drag forces on the petiole, leading to lower dependence of PL variation on LL variation, but higher biomass allocation to the petiole. Our study highlights the need for multidimension analyses of the petiole–lamina relationships and illustrates the importance of plant functional tradeoffs and the change in the tradeoffs along environmental gradients in determining the relationships.
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spelling pubmed-85834902021-11-12 Geographic Variation in the Petiole–Lamina Relationship of 325 Eastern Qinghai–Tibetan Woody Species: Analysis in Three Dimensions Li, Yanan Kang, Xiaomei Zhou, Jieyang Zhao, Zhigang Zhang, Shiting Bu, Haiyan Qi, Wei Front Plant Sci Plant Science The petiole–lamina relationship is central to the functional tradeoff between photosynthetic efficiency and the support/protection cost. Understanding environmental gradients in the relationship and its underlying mechanisms remains a critical challenge for ecologists. We investigated the possible scaling of the petiole–lamina relationships in three dimensions, i.e., petiole length (PL) vs. lamina length (LL), petiole cross sectional area (PCA) vs. lamina area (LA), and petiole mass (PM) vs. lamina mass (LM), for 325 Qinghai–Tibetan woody species, and examined their relation to leaf form, altitude, climate, and vegetation types. Both crossspecies analysis and meta-analysis showed significantly isometric, negatively allometric, and positively allometric scaling of the petiole–lamina relationships in the length, area, and mass dimensions, respectively, reflecting an equal, slower, and faster variation in the petiole than in the lamina in these trait dimensions. Along altitudinal gradients, the effect size of the petiole–lamina relationship decreased in the length and mass dimensions but increased in the area dimension, suggesting the importance of enhancing leaf light-interception and nutrient transport efficiency in the warm zones in petiole development, but enhancing leaf support/protection in the cold zones. The significant additional influences of LA, LM, and LA were observed on the PL–LL, PCA–LA, and PM–LM relationships, respectively, implying that the single-dimension petiole trait is affected simultaneously by multidimensional lamina traits. Relative to simple-leaved species, the presence of petiolule in compound-leaved species can increase both leaf light interception and static gravity loads or dynamic drag forces on the petiole, leading to lower dependence of PL variation on LL variation, but higher biomass allocation to the petiole. Our study highlights the need for multidimension analyses of the petiole–lamina relationships and illustrates the importance of plant functional tradeoffs and the change in the tradeoffs along environmental gradients in determining the relationships. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-10-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8583490/ /pubmed/34777427 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.748125 Text en Copyright © 2021 Li, Kang, Zhou, Zhao, Zhang, Bu and Qi. https://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
Li, Yanan
Kang, Xiaomei
Zhou, Jieyang
Zhao, Zhigang
Zhang, Shiting
Bu, Haiyan
Qi, Wei
Geographic Variation in the Petiole–Lamina Relationship of 325 Eastern Qinghai–Tibetan Woody Species: Analysis in Three Dimensions
title Geographic Variation in the Petiole–Lamina Relationship of 325 Eastern Qinghai–Tibetan Woody Species: Analysis in Three Dimensions
title_full Geographic Variation in the Petiole–Lamina Relationship of 325 Eastern Qinghai–Tibetan Woody Species: Analysis in Three Dimensions
title_fullStr Geographic Variation in the Petiole–Lamina Relationship of 325 Eastern Qinghai–Tibetan Woody Species: Analysis in Three Dimensions
title_full_unstemmed Geographic Variation in the Petiole–Lamina Relationship of 325 Eastern Qinghai–Tibetan Woody Species: Analysis in Three Dimensions
title_short Geographic Variation in the Petiole–Lamina Relationship of 325 Eastern Qinghai–Tibetan Woody Species: Analysis in Three Dimensions
title_sort geographic variation in the petiole–lamina relationship of 325 eastern qinghai–tibetan woody species: analysis in three dimensions
topic Plant Science
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8583490/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34777427
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.748125
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