Invasive clonal plants possess greater capacity for division of labor than natives in high patch contrast environments [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 Invasion success of clonal plants is closely related to their unique clonal life history, and clonal division of labor is a crucial clonal trait. However, so far, it is unclear whether invasive alien clonal species generally possess a greater capacity ...
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Clonal Plants as Meta-Holobionts [PDF]
mSystems, 2019 The holobiont concept defines a given organism and its associated symbionts as a potential level of selection over evolutionary time. In clonal plants, recent experiments demonstrated vertical transmission of part of the microbiota from one ramet (i.e ...
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Phylogenetic meta-analysis of the functional traits of clonal plants foraging in changing environments. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Foraging behavior, one of the adaptive strategies of clonal plants, has stimulated a tremendous amount of research. However, it is a matter of debate whether there is any general pattern in the foraging traits (functional traits related to foraging ...
Xiu-Fang Xie +4 more
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Distribution patterns of clonal plants in the subnival belt of the Hengduan Mountains, SW China [PDF]
Plant Diversity, 2020 Clonal reproduction (i.e., production of potentially independent offspring by vegetative growth) is thought to provide plants with reproductive assurance.
Yongqian Gao +3 more
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Enforced clonality confers a fitness advantage [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2016 In largely clonal plants, splitting of a maternal plant into potentially independent plants (ramets) is usually spontaneous; however, such fragmentation also occurs in otherwise non-clonal species due to application of external force.
Jana eMartínková, Jitka eKlimešová
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Epigenetic memory as a basis for intelligent behaviour in clonal plants [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2016 Environmentally induced epigenetic change enables plants to remember past environmental interactions. If this memory capability is exploited to prepare plants for future challenges, it can provide a basis for highly sophisticated behaviour, considered ...
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Clonal parental effects on competitive interactions between two duckweeds [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceIntroductionParental environments can influence offspring fitness via clonal (asexual) propagation, and such clonal parental effects may vary among plant species and depend on offspring environments as well.
Lin-Xuan He +9 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Many of the world’s most invasive plants are clonal, and clonal functional traits are suggested to contribute to their invasiveness. Clonal integration is one of the most important clonal functional traits, but it is still unclear whether clonal ...
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Clonal versus non-clonal milkweeds (Asclepias spp.) respond differently to stem damage, affecting oviposition by monarch butterflies [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Background Oviposition decisions are critical to the fitness of herbivorous insects and are often impacted by the availability and condition of host plants.
Elise He, Anurag A. Agrawal
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An invasive clonal plant benefits from clonal integration more than a co-occurring native plant in nutrient-patchy and competitive environments. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Many notorious invasive plants are clonal, however, little is known about the different roles of clonal integration effects between invasive and native plants.
Wenhua You +4 more
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