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| Cloning capacity helps seeds of Garcinia xanthochymus counter animal predation | |
| Wang, Zhen-yu; Cao, Lin2; Yan, Chuan; Niu, Yu-da; Chong, Kang3; Zhang, Zhi-bin | |
| 2021 | |
| Source Publication | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
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| ISSN | 2045-7758 |
| Volume | 11Issue:18Pages:12639-12650 |
| Abstract | Seed predators have the potential to act as agents of natural selection that influence seed traits and seed fates, which in turn affect the whole plant population dynamic. Accordingly, plants deploy a variety of mechanisms (e.g., resistance and tolerance strategies) to lessen the impact of predation on seed crop or on an individual seed. In this study, we described a novel mechanism, seed cloning strategy, in a tropical plant species in countering animal predation. By conducting field- and laboratory-based germination experiments, we found that both rodent damaged and artificially damaged seed fragments of a large-seeded tree Garcinia xanthochymus (Clusiaceae) could successfully germinate and establish as seedlings. Tissue culture experiments revealed that G. xanthochymus has no endosperm in seeds, and its seed fragments own strong capacity of differentiation and cloning. Seed damage negatively affected seedling growth and germination, but the seed germination rate was remarkably high. Our study suggests that, seed cloning capacity, adopted by the large-seeded tree G. xanthochymus may act as a novel strategy counteract for seed predation and would play a significant role in stabilizing the mutualism between plant and animals. |
| Keyword | cloning strategy mutualism rodent seed dispersal seed predation seedling establishment |
| Subject Area | Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology |
| DOI | 10.1002/ece3.8008 |
| Indexed By | SCI |
| Language | 英语 |
| WOS Keyword | SEEDLING RECRUITMENT ; RAIN-FOREST ; DISPERSAL ; RODENTS ; TOLERANCE ; ACORNS ; FRUIT ; SURVIVAL ; SIZE ; SQUIRRELS |
| WOS Research Area | Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) |
| WOS ID | WOS:000687137300001 |
| Publisher | WILEY |
| Subtype | Article |
| Publication Place | HOBOKEN |
| Funding Organization | State Basic Research Program of China [2007CB109102] ; Key Laboratory of Poyang Lake Wetland and Watershed Research (Jiangxi Normal University), Ministry of Education [PK2018005] ; Project of Education Department of Jiangxi Province [GJJ150304] |
| Corresponding Author Email | zhangzb@ioz.ac.cn |
| OA | gold, Green Published, Green Submitted |
| Citation statistics | |
| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | http://ir.ibcas.ac.cn/handle/2S10CLM1/26329 |
| Collection | 中科院植物分子生理学重点实验室 |
| Affiliation | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Zool, State Key Lab Integrated Management Pest Insects, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Jiangxi Normal Univ, Coll Life Sci, Minist Educ, Key Lab Poyang Lake Wetland & Watershed Res, Nanchang, Jiangxi, Peoples R China 3.Yunnan Univ, Coll Ecol & Environm Sci, Inst Ecol & Geobot, Kunming, Yunnan, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Bot, Beijing, Peoples R China |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Wang, Zhen-yu,Cao, Lin,Yan, Chuan,et al. Cloning capacity helps seeds of Garcinia xanthochymus counter animal predation[J]. ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION,2021,11(18):12639-12650. |
| APA | Wang, Zhen-yu,Cao, Lin,Yan, Chuan,Niu, Yu-da,Chong, Kang,&Zhang, Zhi-bin.(2021).Cloning capacity helps seeds of Garcinia xanthochymus counter animal predation.ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION,11(18),12639-12650. |
| MLA | Wang, Zhen-yu,et al."Cloning capacity helps seeds of Garcinia xanthochymus counter animal predation".ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 11.18(2021):12639-12650. |
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