Anticipatory Behavior of the Clonal Plant Fragaria vesca

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/18:10392469

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01847" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01847</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01847" target="_blank" >10.3389/fpls.2018.01847</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Anticipatory Behavior of the Clonal Plant Fragaria vesca

Original language description

Active foraging for patchy resources is a crucial feature of many clonal plant species. It has been recently shown that plants’ foraging for resources can be facilitated by anticipatory behavior via association of resource position with other environmental cues. We therefore tested whether clones of Fragaria vesca are able to associate and memorize positions of soil nutrients with particular light intensity, which will consequently enable them anticipating nutrients in new environment. We trained clones of F. vesca for nutrients to occur either in shade or in light. Consequently, we tested their growth response to differing light intensity in the absence of soil nutrients. We also manipulated epigenetic status of a subset of the clones to test the role of DNA methylation in the anticipatory behavior. Clones of F. vesca were able to associate presence of nutrients with particular light intensity, which enabled them to anticipate nutrient positions in the new environment based on its light intensity. Clones that had been trained for nutrients to occur in shade increased placement of ramets to shade whereas clones trained for nutrients to occur in light increased biomass of ramets in light. Our study clearly shows that the clonal plant F. vesca is able to relate two environmental factors, light and soil nutrients, and use this connection in anticipatory behavior. We conclude that anticipatory behavior can substantially improve the ability of clonal plants to utilize scarce and unevenly distributed resources.

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

10611 - Plant sciences, botany

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-11281S" target="_blank" >GA17-11281S: Memory and after-life of clonal plants</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Plant Science

ISSN

1664-462X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

Dec 11 2018

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

1-11

UT code for WoS article

000452809300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85058806870