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Marc Faget Kerstin A. Nagel Achim Walter Juan M. Herrera Siegfried Jahnke Ulrich Schurr Vicky M. Temperton 《Annals of botany》2013,112(2):253-266
Background
There is a large body of literature on competitive interactions among plants, but many studies have only focused on above-ground interactions and little is known about root–root dynamics between interacting plants. The perspective on possible mechanisms that explain the outcome of root–root interactions has recently been extended to include non-resource-driven mechanisms (as well as resource-driven mechanisms) of root competition and positive interactions such as facilitation. These approaches have often suffered from being static, partly due to the lack of appropriate methodologies for in-situ non-destructive root characterization.Scope
Recent studies show that interactive effects of plant neighbourhood interactions follow non-linear and non-additive paths that are hard to explain. Common outcomes such as accumulation of roots mainly in the topsoil cannot be explained solely by competition theory but require a more inclusive theoretical, as well as an improved methodological framework. This will include the question of whether we can apply the same conceptual framework to crop versus natural species.Conclusions
The development of non-invasive methods to dynamically study root–root interactions in vivo will provide the necessary tools to study a more inclusive conceptual framework for root–root interactions. By following the dynamics of root–root interactions through time in a whole range of scenarios and systems, using a wide variety of non-invasive methods, (such as fluorescent protein which now allows us to separately identify the roots of several individuals within soil), we will be much better equipped to answer some of the key questions in root physiology, ecology and agronomy. 相似文献2.
Eric Allan Wolfgang W. Weisser Markus Fischer Ernst-Detlef Schulze Alexandra Weigelt Christiane Roscher Jussi Baade Romain L. Barnard Holger Beßler Nina Buchmann Anne Ebeling Nico Eisenhauer Christof Engels Alexander J. F. Fergus Gerd Gleixner Marlén Gubsch Stefan Halle Alexandra M. Klein Ilona Kertscher Annely Kuu Markus Lange Xavier Le Roux Sebastian T. Meyer Varvara D. Migunova Alexandru Milcu Pascal A. Niklaus Yvonne Oelmann Esther Pašalić Jana S. Petermann Franck Poly Tanja Rottstock Alexander C. W. Sabais Christoph Scherber Michael Scherer-Lorenzen Stefan Scheu Sibylle Steinbeiss Guido Schwichtenberg Vicky Temperton Teja Tscharntke Winfried Voigt Wolfgang Wilcke Christian Wirth Bernhard Schmid 《Oecologia》2013,173(1):223-237
In order to predict which ecosystem functions are most at risk from biodiversity loss, meta-analyses have generalised results from biodiversity experiments over different sites and ecosystem types. In contrast, comparing the strength of biodiversity effects across a large number of ecosystem processes measured in a single experiment permits more direct comparisons. Here, we present an analysis of 418 separate measures of 38 ecosystem processes. Overall, 45 % of processes were significantly affected by plant species richness, suggesting that, while diversity affects a large number of processes not all respond to biodiversity. We therefore compared the strength of plant diversity effects between different categories of ecosystem processes, grouping processes according to the year of measurement, their biogeochemical cycle, trophic level and compartment (above- or belowground) and according to whether they were measures of biodiversity or other ecosystem processes, biotic or abiotic and static or dynamic. Overall, and for several individual processes, we found that biodiversity effects became stronger over time. Measures of the carbon cycle were also affected more strongly by plant species richness than were the measures associated with the nitrogen cycle. Further, we found greater plant species richness effects on measures of biodiversity than on other processes. The differential effects of plant diversity on the various types of ecosystem processes indicate that future research and political effort should shift from a general debate about whether biodiversity loss impairs ecosystem functions to focussing on the specific functions of interest and ways to preserve them individually or in combination. 相似文献
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Polyphosphate is a ubiquitous linear homopolymer of phosphate residues linked by high-energy bonds similar to those found in ATP. It has been associated with many processes including pathogenicity, DNA uptake and multiple stress responses across all domains. Bacteria have also been shown to use polyphosphate as a way to store phosphate when transferred from phosphate-limited to phosphate-rich media--a process exploited in wastewater treatment and other environmental contaminant remediation. Despite this, there has, to date, been little research into the role of polyphosphate in the survival of marine bacterioplankton in oligotrophic environments. The three main proteins involved in polyphosphate metabolism, Ppk1, Ppk2 and Ppx are multi-domain and have differential inter-domain and inter-gene conservation, making unbiased analysis of relative abundance in metagenomic datasets difficult. This paper describes the development of a novel Isofunctional Homolog Annotation Tool (IHAT) to detect homologs of genes with a broad range of conservation without bias of traditional expect-value cutoffs. IHAT analysis of the Global Ocean Sampling (GOS) dataset revealed that genes associated with polyphosphate metabolism are more abundant in environments where available phosphate is limited, suggesting an important role for polyphosphate metabolism in marine oligotrophs. 相似文献
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The effect of elevated CO2 concentration and nutrient supply on carbon-based plant secondary metabolites in Pinus sylvestris L. 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
This study investigated changes in carbon-based plant secondary metabolite concentrations in the needles of Pinus sylvestris saplings, in response to long-term elevation of atmospheric CO2, at two rates of nutrient supply. Experimental trees were grown for 3 years in eight open-top chambers (OTCs), four of which
were maintained at ambient (∼350 μmol mol−1) and four at elevated (700 μmol mol−1) CO2 concentrations, plus four open air control plots. Within each of these treatments, plants received either high (7.0 g N m−2 year−1 added) or low (no nutrients added) rates of nutrient supply for two years. Needles from lateral branches were analysed chemically
for concentrations of condensed tannins and monoterpenes. Biochemical determinations of cellulase digestibility and protein
precipitating capacity of their phenolic extracts were made because of their potential of importance in ecological interactions
between pine and other organisms including herbivores and decomposers. Elevated CO2 concentration caused an increase (P<0.05) in dry mass per needle, tree height and the concentration of the monoterpene α-pinene, but there were no direct effects
of CO2 concentration on any of the other chemical measurements made. High nutrient availability increased cellulase digestibility
of pine needles. There was a significant negative effect of the OTCs on protein precipitating capacity of the needle extracts
in comparison to the open-air controls. Results suggest that predicted changes in atmospheric CO2 concentration will be insufficient to produce large changes in the concentration of condensed tannins and monoterpenes in
Scots pine. Processes which are influenced by these compounds, such as decomposition and herbivore food selection, along with
their effects on ecosystem functioning, are therefore unlikely to be directly affected through changes in these secondary
metabolites.
Received: 20 October 1997 / Accepted: 28 February 1998 相似文献
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Siegfried Jahnke Marion I. Menzel Dagmar van Dusschoten Gerhard W. Roeb Jonas Bühler Senay Minwuyelet Peter Blümler Vicky M. Temperton Thomas Hombach Matthias Streun Simone Beer Maryam Khodaverdi Karl Ziemons Heinz H. Coenen Ulrich Schurr 《The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology》2009,59(4):634-644
Unravelling the factors determining the allocation of carbon to various plant organs is one of the great challenges of modern plant biology. Studying allocation under close to natural conditions requires non-invasive methods, which are now becoming available for measuring plants on a par with those developed for humans. By combining magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET), we investigated three contrasting root/shoot systems growing in sand or soil, with respect to their structures, transport routes and the translocation dynamics of recently fixed photoassimilates labelled with the short-lived radioactive carbon isotope 11 C. Storage organs of sugar beet ( Beta vulgaris ) and radish plants ( Raphanus sativus ) were assessed using MRI, providing images of the internal structures of the organs with high spatial resolution, and while species-specific transport sectoralities, properties of assimilate allocation and unloading characteristics were measured using PET. Growth and carbon allocation within complex root systems were monitored in maize plants ( Zea mays ), and the results may be used to identify factors affecting root growth in natural substrates or in competition with roots of other plants. MRI–PET co-registration opens the door for non-invasive analysis of plant structures and transport processes that may change in response to genomic, developmental or environmental challenges. It is our aim to make the methods applicable for quantitative analyses of plant traits in phenotyping as well as in understanding the dynamics of key processes that are essential to plant performance. 相似文献
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Pedro LC Pinheiro João CR Cardoso Ana S Gomes Juan Fuentes Deborah M Power Adelino VM Canário 《BMC evolutionary biology》2010,10(1):373
Background
Parathyroid hormone (PTH) and PTH-related peptide (PTHrP) belong to a family of endocrine factors that share a highly conserved N-terminal region (amino acids 1-34) and play key roles in calcium homeostasis, bone formation and skeletal development. Recently, PTH-like peptide (PTH-L) was identified in teleost fish raising questions about the evolution of these proteins. Although PTH and PTHrP have been intensively studied in mammals their function in other vertebrates is poorly documented. Amphibians and birds occupy unique phylogenetic positions, the former at the transition of aquatic to terrestrial life and the latter at the transition to homeothermy. Moreover, both organisms have characteristics indicative of a complex system in calcium regulation. This study investigated PTH family evolution in vertebrates with special emphasis on Xenopus and chicken. 相似文献7.
J Cameron Thrash Ben Temperton Brandon K Swan Zachary C Landry Tanja Woyke Edward F DeLong Ramunas Stepanauskas Stephan J Giovannoni 《The ISME journal》2014,8(7):1440-1451
Bacterioplankton of the SAR11 clade are the most abundant microorganisms in marine systems, usually representing 25% or more of the total bacterial cells in seawater worldwide. SAR11 is divided into subclades with distinct spatiotemporal distributions (ecotypes), some of which appear to be specific to deep water. Here we examine the genomic basis for deep ocean distribution of one SAR11 bathytype (depth-specific ecotype), subclade Ic. Four single-cell Ic genomes, with estimated completeness of 55%–86%, were isolated from 770 m at station ALOHA and compared with eight SAR11 surface genomes and metagenomic datasets. Subclade Ic genomes dominated metagenomic fragment recruitment below the euphotic zone. They had similar COG distributions, high local synteny and shared a large number (69%) of orthologous clusters with SAR11 surface genomes, yet were distinct at the 16S rRNA gene and amino-acid level, and formed a separate, monophyletic group in phylogenetic trees. Subclade Ic genomes were enriched in genes associated with membrane/cell wall/envelope biosynthesis and showed evidence of unique phage defenses. The majority of subclade Ic-specfic genes were hypothetical, and some were highly abundant in deep ocean metagenomic data, potentially masking mechanisms for niche differentiation. However, the evidence suggests these organisms have a similar metabolism to their surface counterparts, and that subclade Ic adaptations to the deep ocean do not involve large variations in gene content, but rather more subtle differences previously observed deep ocean genomic data, like preferential amino-acid substitutions, larger coding regions among SAR11 clade orthologs, larger intergenic regions and larger estimated average genome size. 相似文献
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Christiane Roscher Vicky M. Temperton Michael Scherer-Lorenzen Martin Schmitz Jens Schumacher Bernhard Schmid Nina Buchmann Wolfgang W. Weisser Ernst-Detlef Schulze 《Ecology letters》2005,8(4):419-429
In a large integrated biodiversity project (‘The Jena Experiment’ in Germany) we established two experiments, one with a pool of 60 plant species that ranged broadly from dominant to subordinate competitors on large 20 × 20 m and small 3.5 × 3.5 m plots (= main experiment), and one with a pool of nine potentially dominant species on small 3.5 × 3.5 m plots (= dominance experiment). We found identical positive species richness–aboveground productivity relationships in the main experiment at both scales. This result suggests that scaling up, at least over the short term, is appropriate in interpreting the implications of such experiments for larger‐scale patterns. The species richness–productivity relationship was more pronounced in the experiment with dominant species (46.7 and 82.6% yield increase compared to mean monoculture, respectively). Additionally, transgressive overyielding occurred more frequently in the dominance experiment (67.7% of cases) than in the main experiment (23.4% of cases). Additive partitioning and relative yield total analyses showed that both complementarity and selection effects contributed to the positive net biodiversity effect. 相似文献
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June E. Swinburne Helen Bogle Jolanta Klukowska-Rötzler Michaela Drögemüller Tosso Leeb Elizabeth Temperton Gaudenz Dolf Vincent Gerber 《Mammalian genome》2009,20(8):504-515
Recurrent airway obstruction (RAO), or heaves, is a naturally occurring asthma-like disease that is related to sensitisation
and exposure to mouldy hay and has a familial basis with a complex mode of inheritance. A genome-wide scanning approach using
two half-sibling families was taken in order to locate the chromosome regions that contribute to the inherited component of
this condition in these families. Initially, a panel of 250 microsatellite markers, which were chosen as a well-spaced, polymorphic
selection covering the 31 equine autosomes, was used to genotype the two half-sibling families, which comprised in total 239
Warmblood horses. Subsequently, supplementary markers were added for a total of 315 genotyped markers. Each half-sibling family
is focused around a severely RAO-affected stallion, and the phenotype of each individual was assessed for RAO and related
signs, namely, breathing effort at rest, breathing effort at work, coughing, and nasal discharge, using an owner-based questionnaire.
Analysis using a regression method for half-sibling family structures was performed using RAO and each of the composite clinical
signs separately; two chromosome regions (on ECA13 and ECA15) showed a genome-wide significant association with RAO at P < 0.05. An additional 11 chromosome regions showed a more modest association. This is the first publication that describes
the mapping of genetic loci involved in RAO. Several candidate genes are located in these regions, a number of which are interleukins.
These are important signalling molecules that are intricately involved in the control of the immune response and are therefore
good positional candidates. 相似文献
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