Competition-induced transgenerational plasticity influences competitive interactions and leaf decomposition of offspring

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Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/21:00544263

Result on the web

<a href="https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nph.17037" target="_blank" >https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nph.17037</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.17037" target="_blank" >10.1111/nph.17037</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Competition-induced transgenerational plasticity influences competitive interactions and leaf decomposition of offspring

Original language description

Phenotypic plasticity, within and across generations (transgenerational plasticity), allows organisms and their progeny to adapt to the environment without modification of the underlying DNA. Recent findings suggest that epigenetic modifications are important mediators of such plasticity. However, empirical studies have, so far, mainly focused on plasticity in response to abiotic factors, overlooking the response to competition. We tested for within-generation and transgenerational phenotypic plasticity triggered by plant-plant competition intensity, and we tested whether it was mediated via DNA methylation, using the perennial, apomictic herb Taraxacum brevicorniculatum in four coordinated experiments. We then tested the consequences of transgenerational plasticity affecting competitive interactions of the offspring and ecosystem processes, such as decomposition. We found that, by promoting differences in DNA methylation, offspring of plants under stronger competition developed faster and presented more resource-conservative phenotypes. Further, these adjustments associated with less degradable leaves, which have the potential to reduce nutrient turnover and might, in turn, favour plants with more conservative traits. Greater parental competition enhanced competitive abilities of the offspring, by triggering adaptive phenotypic plasticity, and decreased offspring leaf decomposability. Our results suggest that competition-induced transgenerational effects could promote rapid adaptations and species coexistence and feed back on biodiversity assembly and nutrient cycling.

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

2021

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

New Phytologist

ISSN

0028-646X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

229

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

3497-3507

UT code for WoS article

000593116800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85096835733