Cargando…
Micro- and Macroscale Patterns of Petal Morphogenesis in Nigella damascena (Ranunculaceae) Revealed by Geometric Morphometrics and Cellular Analyses
Petals, the inner organs in a differentiated perianth, generally play an important role in pollinator attraction. As such they exhibit an extraordinary diversity of shapes, sizes, and colors. Being involved in pollinator attraction and reward, they are privileged targets of evolution. The corolla of...
Autores principales: | , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Frontiers Media S.A.
2021
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8640125/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34868166 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.769246 |
_version_ | 1784609273159876608 |
---|---|
author | Galipot, Pierre Gerber, Sylvain Le Guilloux, Martine Jabbour, Florian Damerval, Catherine |
author_facet | Galipot, Pierre Gerber, Sylvain Le Guilloux, Martine Jabbour, Florian Damerval, Catherine |
author_sort | Galipot, Pierre |
collection | PubMed |
description | Petals, the inner organs in a differentiated perianth, generally play an important role in pollinator attraction. As such they exhibit an extraordinary diversity of shapes, sizes, and colors. Being involved in pollinator attraction and reward, they are privileged targets of evolution. The corolla of the Ranunculaceae species Nigella damascena consists of elaborate nectariferous petals, made of a stalk, upper, and lower lips forming a nectar pouch, shiny pseudonectaries, and pilose ears. While the main events of petal development are properly described, a few is known about the pattern of organ size and shape covariation and the cellular dynamics during development. In this study, we investigated the relationships between morphogenesis and growth of N. damascena petals using geometric morphometrics coupled with the study of cell characteristics. First, we found that petal shape and size dynamics are allometric during development and that their covariation suggests that petal shape change dynamics are exponentially slower than growth. We then found that cell proliferation is the major driver of shape patterning during development, while petal size dynamics are mostly driven by cell expansion. Our analyses provide a quantitative basis to characterize the relationships between shape, size, and cell characteristics during the development of an elaborate floral structure. Such studies lay the ground for future evo-devo investigations of the large morphological diversity observed in nectariferous structures, in Ranunculaceae and beyond. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-8640125 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2021 |
publisher | Frontiers Media S.A. |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-86401252021-12-04 Micro- and Macroscale Patterns of Petal Morphogenesis in Nigella damascena (Ranunculaceae) Revealed by Geometric Morphometrics and Cellular Analyses Galipot, Pierre Gerber, Sylvain Le Guilloux, Martine Jabbour, Florian Damerval, Catherine Front Plant Sci Plant Science Petals, the inner organs in a differentiated perianth, generally play an important role in pollinator attraction. As such they exhibit an extraordinary diversity of shapes, sizes, and colors. Being involved in pollinator attraction and reward, they are privileged targets of evolution. The corolla of the Ranunculaceae species Nigella damascena consists of elaborate nectariferous petals, made of a stalk, upper, and lower lips forming a nectar pouch, shiny pseudonectaries, and pilose ears. While the main events of petal development are properly described, a few is known about the pattern of organ size and shape covariation and the cellular dynamics during development. In this study, we investigated the relationships between morphogenesis and growth of N. damascena petals using geometric morphometrics coupled with the study of cell characteristics. First, we found that petal shape and size dynamics are allometric during development and that their covariation suggests that petal shape change dynamics are exponentially slower than growth. We then found that cell proliferation is the major driver of shape patterning during development, while petal size dynamics are mostly driven by cell expansion. Our analyses provide a quantitative basis to characterize the relationships between shape, size, and cell characteristics during the development of an elaborate floral structure. Such studies lay the ground for future evo-devo investigations of the large morphological diversity observed in nectariferous structures, in Ranunculaceae and beyond. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-11-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8640125/ /pubmed/34868166 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.769246 Text en Copyright © 2021 Galipot, Gerber, Le Guilloux, Jabbour and Damerval. 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 Galipot, Pierre Gerber, Sylvain Le Guilloux, Martine Jabbour, Florian Damerval, Catherine Micro- and Macroscale Patterns of Petal Morphogenesis in Nigella damascena (Ranunculaceae) Revealed by Geometric Morphometrics and Cellular Analyses |
title | Micro- and Macroscale Patterns of Petal Morphogenesis in Nigella damascena (Ranunculaceae) Revealed by Geometric Morphometrics and Cellular Analyses |
title_full | Micro- and Macroscale Patterns of Petal Morphogenesis in Nigella damascena (Ranunculaceae) Revealed by Geometric Morphometrics and Cellular Analyses |
title_fullStr | Micro- and Macroscale Patterns of Petal Morphogenesis in Nigella damascena (Ranunculaceae) Revealed by Geometric Morphometrics and Cellular Analyses |
title_full_unstemmed | Micro- and Macroscale Patterns of Petal Morphogenesis in Nigella damascena (Ranunculaceae) Revealed by Geometric Morphometrics and Cellular Analyses |
title_short | Micro- and Macroscale Patterns of Petal Morphogenesis in Nigella damascena (Ranunculaceae) Revealed by Geometric Morphometrics and Cellular Analyses |
title_sort | micro- and macroscale patterns of petal morphogenesis in nigella damascena (ranunculaceae) revealed by geometric morphometrics and cellular analyses |
topic | Plant Science |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8640125/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34868166 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.769246 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT galipotpierre microandmacroscalepatternsofpetalmorphogenesisinnigelladamascenaranunculaceaerevealedbygeometricmorphometricsandcellularanalyses AT gerbersylvain microandmacroscalepatternsofpetalmorphogenesisinnigelladamascenaranunculaceaerevealedbygeometricmorphometricsandcellularanalyses AT leguillouxmartine microandmacroscalepatternsofpetalmorphogenesisinnigelladamascenaranunculaceaerevealedbygeometricmorphometricsandcellularanalyses AT jabbourflorian microandmacroscalepatternsofpetalmorphogenesisinnigelladamascenaranunculaceaerevealedbygeometricmorphometricsandcellularanalyses AT damervalcatherine microandmacroscalepatternsofpetalmorphogenesisinnigelladamascenaranunculaceaerevealedbygeometricmorphometricsandcellularanalyses |