Trade-Offs Between Growth, Longevity, and Storage Carbohydrates in Herbs and Shrubs: Evidence for Active Carbon Allocation Strategies
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985939%3A_____%2F25%3A00640374" target="_blank" >RIV/67985939:_____/25:00640374 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60076658:12310/25:43909775
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.15444" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.15444</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pce.15444" target="_blank" >10.1111/pce.15444</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Trade-Offs Between Growth, Longevity, and Storage Carbohydrates in Herbs and Shrubs: Evidence for Active Carbon Allocation Strategies
Original language description
Plants store nonstructural carbohydrates (NSCs) like starch, fructans and soluble sugars to support metabolism, stress tolerance and defence during low photosynthesis, ultimately influencing their growth and longevity. However, the relationship between NSC composition and growth or persistence in wild plants remains unclear. This study explores trade-offs between growth, longevity and NSCs in 201 plant species across diverse climates in the Western USA, spanning 500-4300 m in elevation and 80-1000 mm in precipitation. Annual growth rates and plant ages were derived from the ring widths of semidesert, steppe and alpine herbs and shrubs, along with NSC profiles in their roots and rhizomes. Results showed an inverse relationship between growth and age, with total NSC, starch and fructan levels negatively correlated with growth, supporting the growth-longevity and growth-storage trade-off hypotheses. Conversely, higher growth rates were linked to soluble sugars, suggesting that climate-driven growth limitations alone do not explain increased NSCs. Fructans were positively associated with longevity, especially in long-lived desert shrubs and alpine herbs, underscoring NSCs' active role in survival strategies. These findings challenge the carbon surplus hypothesis, suggesting that plants actively use specific NSCs to balance growth and persistence, with energy-rich sugars promoting growth and osmoprotective fructans enhancing longevity.
Czech name
—
Czech description
—
Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
—
OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LUAUS24258" target="_blank" >LUAUS24258: Adaptation of plants and soil microorganisms to climate change in US arid ecosystems: studying mechanisms and interactions using growth, metabolomic and metagenomic analysis</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Plant Cell and Environment
ISSN
0140-7791
e-ISSN
1365-3040
Volume of the periodical
48
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
4505-4517
UT code for WoS article
001434145800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85218768903