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Suppression of a plant hormone gibberellin reduces growth of invasive plants more than native plants
Oikos ( IF 3.4 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-02 , DOI: 10.1111/oik.07819
Yanjie Liu 1 , Ayub M. O. Oduor 2 , Zhi‐Cong Dai 3, 4 , Fang‐Lei Gao 2, 5 , Junmin Li 2 , Xue Zhang 1 , Fei‐Hai Yu 2, 6
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Subsequent to escape from intense herbivory in the native range, invasive plants are expected to reduce allocation to costly anti‐herbivory defences and have greater competitive ability than co‐occurring native species. Given that invasive alien plants often occur in open habitats where light is less limited, it is reasonable to hypothesize that invasive plants should express high concentrations of gibberellins that enable them to allocate more biomass to roots, and thus have higher competitive ability than native plants. To test this prediction, we grew five congeneric pairs of invasive alien plants and native plants under two levels of nutrient availability (low versus high) and treated a half of the plants with a gibberellin biosynthesis inhibitor, paclobutrazol. Paclobutrazol significantly decreased aboveground, belowground and total biomass of the test plants. Interestingly, the effects on belowground biomass were significantly stronger for invasive plants than for native plants. A similar pattern was found for total biomass (marginally significant effect p = 0.0592). Additionally, paclobutrazol decreased root mass fraction for invasive plants, but tended to increase it for native plants. Our findings suggest that plant hormones can differently regulate biomass allocation of invasive and native plants, and thus contribute to greater growth of invasive plants compared to native plants.

中文翻译:

与天然植物相比,抑制植物激素赤霉素可减少入侵植物的生长

继而摆脱了本土范围内的强烈草食性之后,入侵植物预计会减少分配给昂贵的抗草食动物防御系统的能力,并且比共同存在的本土物种具有更大的竞争能力。鉴于入侵的外来植物通常发生在光线较少的开放栖息地,因此有理由假设入侵植物应表达高浓度的赤霉素,从而使它们能够向根部分配更多的生物量,因此比天然植物具有更高的竞争能力。为了检验这一预测,我们在两种营养水平下(低与高)种植了五对同属入侵的外来植物和天然植物,并用赤霉素生物合成抑制剂多效唑处理了一半的植物。多效唑在地上显着减少,地下和测试植物的总生物量。有趣的是,入侵植物对地下生物量的影响明显强于原生植物。对于总生物量,发现了类似的模式(边际显着影响p = 0.0592)。此外,多效唑可降低入侵植物的根质量分数,但对于天然植物则倾向于增加根质量分数。我们的发现表明,植物激素可以不同程度地调节入侵植物和天然植物的生物量分配,因此,与天然植物相比,植物激素可以促进入侵植物的更大生长。多效唑可降低入侵植物的根质量分数,但对于本地植物则倾向于增加根质量分数。我们的发现表明,植物激素可以不同程度地调节入侵植物和天然植物的生物量分配,因此,与天然植物相比,植物激素可以促进入侵植物的更大生长。多效唑可降低入侵植物的根质量分数,但对于本地植物则倾向于增加根质量分数。我们的发现表明,植物激素可以不同程度地调节入侵植物和天然植物的生物量分配,因此,与天然植物相比,植物激素可以促进入侵植物的更大生长。
更新日期:2021-05-03
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