Title: Research on the environmental factors regulating the phenotypic states of gender plasticity in Alternanthera philoxeroides
Abstract:Metastability plasticity could significantly affect the fitness and response model of individual plant to environment.Therefore,it is important to explore the inducement and operating mechanism of met...Metastability plasticity could significantly affect the fitness and response model of individual plant to environment.Therefore,it is important to explore the inducement and operating mechanism of metastability plasticity.Alternanthera philoxeroides shows metastable plasticity on gender trait,but stable plasticity on other phenotypic variations.In this study,orthogonal experiments were conducted to quantify the plasticity of phenotypic traits on A.philoxeroides,under various control conditions.The result showed that:(1)environmental factors that determine the gender plasticity are also the primary factors for many other plastic traits;(2)under different control environment,monoclinous and completely pistillate genets are the majority of experimental plants,while incomplete pistillody individuals are less than 1.0% of the total.Through the results,we can make the conclusions that,A.philoxeroides has two metastable states for gender trangeneration plasticity,and this metastability plasticity is intrinsically caused by individual plant.Read More
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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