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Transgenerational plasticity in clonal plants
Evolutionary Ecology, 2010Transgenerational plasticity has recently been recognized as a mechanism allowing phenotypic adjustments to local conditions to be passed onto sexually produced offspring. Although thus far it has been studied mainly in non-clonal plants, the present paper proposes that transgenerational plasticity is also applicable to asexually generated progeny, and
Vít Latzel, Jitka Klimešová
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Are clonal plants more tolerant to grazing than co‐occurring non‐clonal plants in inland dunes?
Ecological Research, 2007Abstract Clonal traits such as clonal integration and storage functions of rhizomes or stolons may provide clonal plants with additional advantages against grazing over non‐clonal plants. Here, we hypothesize that clonal species have a larger capacity for compensatory growth than co‐occurring non‐clonal species ...
Hai‐Dong Liu +4 more
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Are stoneworts (Characeae) clonal plants?
Aquatic Botany, 2012Two questions have been posed: whether the concept of clonality may be applied to charophytes (Characeae) and whether species of the genus Chara differ in the features connected with clonal life strategy. The following criteria of clonality were established: 1/an iterative growth form characterised by a horizontal (above- or underground) axis and ...
Katarzyna Bociąg, Emilia Rekowska
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Clonal integration increases tolerance of a phalanx clonal plant to defoliation
Science of The Total Environment, 2017Defoliation by herbivores commonly imposes negative effects on plants, and physiological integration (resource sharing) can enhance the ability of guerilla clonal plants to tolerate stresses. Here we examined whether physiological integration can increase the ability of phalanx clonal plants to withstand defoliation.
Pu Wang +7 more
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Plant clonality: Biology and diversity
Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, 1994The current approaches to the study of clonal plants are reviewed. Most studies concentrate at the level of the ramet and clonal fragment exploring the “microscopic” view of clonal plants, dealing with the translocation of resources, clonal integration, plasticity of growth etc.
Tomáš Herben +3 more
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1993
Abstract Little is known about the nature of cell-cell interactions in plants as many of the most useful methods for studying this problem are difficult, if not impossible, to employ in plants. One of the most significant technical problems is the tendency of plant cells and tissues to dedifferentiate in new environments. As a result,
Mark Dudley, R Scott Poethig
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Abstract Little is known about the nature of cell-cell interactions in plants as many of the most useful methods for studying this problem are difficult, if not impossible, to employ in plants. One of the most significant technical problems is the tendency of plant cells and tissues to dedifferentiate in new environments. As a result,
Mark Dudley, R Scott Poethig
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Oikos, 1995
In clonal organisms the distribution of a genet is potentially unlimited in space and time. Fitness, defined as the rate of change in number of units carrying a certain allele or allele complex, can be calculated using life cycle graph analysis. The units used should be self-replicating, limited in space and time, and not unnecessarily small.
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In clonal organisms the distribution of a genet is potentially unlimited in space and time. Fitness, defined as the rate of change in number of units carrying a certain allele or allele complex, can be calculated using life cycle graph analysis. The units used should be self-replicating, limited in space and time, and not unnecessarily small.
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Habitat Selection in a Clonal Plant
Science, 1985Rhizomatous growth may permit the nonrandom placement of ramets into different environments, but whether clonal plants are able to use this means to exercise adaptive habitat choice is not known. Western ragweed (Ambrosia psilostachya) plants are shown to preferentially colonize nonsaline soil over saline soil patches, and clones with the strongest ...
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Ring formation in clonal plants
Community Ecology, 2014Ring shaped patches of clonal plants fascinated plant ecologists since long time. In this work we review the reports on the occurrence of ring pattern in different environmental conditions, the growth forms of ring-forming plants, the mechanisms underlying ring formation, and the consequences for species diversity at community scale. Rings formed by 83
BONANOMI, GIULIANO +5 more
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MODELING INVESTMENTS IN SEEDS, CLONAL OFFSPRING, AND TRANSLOCATION IN A CLONAL PLANT
Ecology, 1999Clonal plants that can switch facultatively between sexual and asexual re- production may respond plastically to the environment. We constructed a dynamic state variable model to examine how the measure of fitness, ramet and genet mortality, and the assimilation rates of a parent and its clonal offspring influence behavioral investments in ramet growth,
Shea N. Gardner, Marc Mangel
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