Multiple simultaneous treatments change plant response from adaptive parental effects to within-generation plasticity, in Arabidopsis thaliana

Oikos ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 128 (3) ◽  
pp. 368-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Lampei
2010 ◽  
Vol 187 (4) ◽  
pp. 1075-1088 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara M. A. De Coninck ◽  
Jan Sels ◽  
Esther Venmans ◽  
Wannes Thys ◽  
Inge J. W. M. Goderis ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vit Latzel ◽  
Markus Fischer ◽  
Maartje Groot ◽  
Ruben Gutzat ◽  
Christian Lampei ◽  
...  

The phenotypes of plants can be influenced by the environmental conditions experienced by their parents. In some cases, such parental effects have been found to be adaptive, which has led to much speculation about their ecological and evolutionary significance. However, there is still much uncertainty about how common and how predictable parental environmental effects really are. We carried out a comprehensive test for parental effects of different environmental stresses in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. We subjected plants of three Arabidopsis genotypes to a broad range of biotic or abiotic stresses, or combinations thereof, and compared their offspring phenotypes in a common environment. The majority of environmental stresses (16 out of 24 stress treatments) caused significant parental effects, in particular on plant biomass and reproduction, with positive or negative effects ranging from 35% to +38% changes in offspring fitness. The expression of parental effects was strongly genotype-dependent, with some effects only present in some genotypes but absent, or even in the opposite direction, in others. Parental effects of multiple environmental stresses were often non-additive, and their effects can thus not be predicted from what we know about the effects of individual stresses. Intriguingly, the direction and magnitude of parental effects were unrelated to the direct effects on the parents: some stresses did not affect the parents but caused substantial effects on offspring, while for others the situation was reversed. In summary, parental environmental effects are common and often strong in A. thaliana, but they are genotype-dependent and difficult to predict.


PLoS ONE ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. e39023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina Humbert ◽  
Sihui Zhong ◽  
Yan Deng ◽  
Stephen H. Howell ◽  
Steven J. Rothstein

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2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. e42491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Dechorgnat ◽  
Oriane Patrit ◽  
Anne Krapp ◽  
Mathilde Fagard ◽  
Françoise Daniel-Vedele

2021 ◽  
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Author(s):  
Lucie Slawinski ◽  
Abir Israel ◽  
Caroline Artault ◽  
Florence Thibault ◽  
Rossitza Atanassova ◽  
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Drought is one of the main abiotic stresses, which affects plant growth, development, and crop yield. Plant response to drought implies carbon allocation to sink organs and sugar partitioning between different cell compartments, and thereby requires the involvement of sugar transporters (SUTs). Among them, the early response to dehydration six-like (ESL), with 19 members in Arabidopsis thaliana, form the largest subfamily of monosaccharide transporters (MSTs) still poorly characterized. A common feature of these genes is their involvement in plant response to abiotic stresses, including water deficit. In this context, we carried out morphological and physiological phenotyping of A. thaliana plants grown under well-watered (WW) and water-deprived (WD) conditions, together with the expression profiling of 17 AtESL genes in rosette leaves. The drought responsiveness of 12 ESL genes, 4 upregulated and 8 downregulated, was correlated to different water statuses of rosette leaves. The differential expression of each of the tandem duplicated AtESL genes in response to water stress is in favor of their plausible functional diversity. Furthermore, transfer DNA (T-DNA) insertional mutants for each of the four upregulated ESLs in response to water deprivation were identified and characterized under WW and WD conditions. To gain insights into global sugar exchanges between vacuole and cytosol under water deficit, the gene expression of other vacuolar SUTs and invertases (AtTMT, AtSUC, AtSWEET, and AtβFRUCT) was analyzed and discussed.


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Vol 92 (10) ◽  
pp. 4189-4196 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. M. Ausubel ◽  
F. Katagiri ◽  
M. Mindrinos ◽  
J. Glazebrook

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pp. 551-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seok So Chang ◽  
Soon Ki Park ◽  
Byung Chul Kim ◽  
Bong Joong Kang ◽  
Dal Ung Kim ◽  
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