scholarly journals Mediation of seed provisioning in the transmission of environmental maternal effects in Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Aiton)

Heredity ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 111 (3) ◽  
pp. 248-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Zas ◽  
C Cendán ◽  
L Sampedro
2021 ◽  
Vol 168 ◽  
pp. 113581
Author(s):  
J. Santos ◽  
J. Pereira ◽  
N. Ferreira ◽  
N. Paiva ◽  
J. Ferra ◽  
...  

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 368
Author(s):  
Cristina Alegria ◽  
Natália Roque ◽  
Teresa Albuquerque ◽  
Paulo Fernandez ◽  
Maria Margarida Ribeiro

Research Highlights: Modelling species’ distribution and productivity is key to support integrated landscape planning, species’ afforestation, and sustainable forest management. Background and Objectives: Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Aiton) forests in Portugal were lately affected by wildfires and measures to overcome this situation are needed. The aims of this study were: (1) to model species’ spatial distribution and productivity using a machine learning (ML) regression approach to produce current species’ distribution and productivity maps; (2) to model the species’ spatial productivity using a stochastic sequential simulation approach to produce the species’ current productivity map; (3) to produce the species’ potential distribution map, by using a ML classification approach to define species’ ecological envelope thresholds; and (4) to identify present and future key factors for the species’ afforestation and management. Materials and Methods: Spatial land cover/land use data, inventory, and environmental data (climate, topography, and soil) were used in a coupled ML regression and stochastic sequential simulation approaches to model species’ current and potential distributions and productivity. Results: Maritime pine spatial distribution modelling by the ML approach provided 69% fitting efficiency, while species productivity modelling achieved only 43%. The species’ potential area covered 60% of the country’s area, where 78% of the species’ forest inventory plots (1995) were found. The change in the Maritime pine stands’ age structure observed in the last decades is causing the species’ recovery by natural regeneration to be at risk. Conclusions: The maps produced allow for best site identification for species afforestation, wood production regulation support, landscape planning considering species’ diversity, and fire hazard mitigation. These maps were obtained by modelling using environmental covariates, such as climate attributes, so their projection in future climate change scenarios can be performed.


2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (11) ◽  
pp. 1302-1313 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Serra-Varela ◽  
D. Grivet ◽  
L. Vincenot ◽  
O. Broennimann ◽  
J. Gonzalo-Jiménez ◽  
...  

1989 ◽  
Vol 46 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. 426s-428s ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Loustau ◽  
F. El Hadj Moussa ◽  
M. Sartore ◽  
M. Guedon

PLoS ONE ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. e109132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Vizcaíno-Palomar ◽  
Bárbara Revuelta-Eugercios ◽  
Miguel A. Zavala ◽  
Ricardo Alía ◽  
Santiago C. González-Martínez

Talanta ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 221 ◽  
pp. 121454
Author(s):  
Morandise Rubini ◽  
Lisa Feuillerat ◽  
Thomas Cabaret ◽  
Léo Leroyer ◽  
Luc Leneveu ◽  
...  

Plants ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1271
Author(s):  
José Alberto Urbano-Gámez ◽  
Jorge El-Azaz ◽  
Concepción Ávila ◽  
Fernando N. de la Torre ◽  
Francisco M. Cánovas

The amino acids arginine and ornithine are the precursors of a wide range of nitrogenous compounds in all living organisms. The metabolic conversion of ornithine into arginine is catalyzed by the sequential activities of the enzymes ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC), argininosuccinate synthetase (ASSY) and argininosuccinate lyase (ASL). Because of their roles in the urea cycle, these enzymes have been purified and extensively studied in a variety of animal models. However, the available information about their molecular characteristics, kinetic and regulatory properties is relatively limited in plants. In conifers, arginine plays a crucial role as a main constituent of N-rich storage proteins in seeds and serves as the main source of nitrogen for the germinating embryo. In this work, recombinant PpOTC, PpASSY and PpASL enzymes from maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.) were produced in Escherichia coli to enable study of their molecular and kinetics properties. The results reported here provide a molecular basis for the regulation of arginine and ornithine metabolism at the enzymatic level, suggesting that the reaction catalyzed by OTC is a regulatory target in the homeostasis of ornithine pools that can be either used for the biosynthesis of arginine in plastids or other nitrogenous compounds in the cytosol.


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