Decision-making in plants under competition

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02147-2" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02147-2</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02147-2" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41467-017-02147-2</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Decision-making in plants under competition

Original language description

Plants can plastically respond to light competition in three strategies, comprising vertical growth, which promotes competitive dominance; shade tolerance, which maximises performance under shade; or lateral growth, which offers avoidance of competition. Here, we test the hypothesis that plants can &apos;choose&apos; between these responses, according to their abilities to competitively overcome their neighbours. We study this hypothesis in the clonal plant Potentilla reptans using an experimental setup that simulates both the height and density of neighbours, thus presenting plants with different light-competition scenarios. Potentilla reptans ramets exhibit the highest vertical growth under simulated short-dense neighbours, highest specific leaf area (leaf area/dry mass) under tall-dense neighbours, and tend to increase total stolon length under tall-sparse neighbours. These responses suggest shifts between &apos;confrontational&apos; vertical growth, shade tolerance and lateral-avoidance, respectively, and provide evidence that plants adopt one of several alternative plastic responses in a way that optimally corresponds to prevailing light-competition scenarios.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Nature Communications

ISSN

2041-1723

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

DEC 21 2017

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000418567200002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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