Progress in the detection of costs of phenotypic plasticity in plants

New Phytologist

Volumn 176, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 727-730

  Van Kleunen, Mark ^a   Fischer, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Active plasticity; Benefits; Costs; Passive plasticity; Phenotypic plasticity; Recombinant inbred lines; Selection gradient analysis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ECOSYSTEM; HOMEOSTASIS; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ECOSYSTEM; HOMEOSTASIS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 36049031759     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02296.x     Document Type: Note

References (15)

1. Avramov S, Pemac D, Tucić B. 2007. Phenotypic plasticity in response to an irradiance gradient in Iris pumila: adaptive value and evolutionary constraints. Plant Ecology 190 : 275 290.
2. Callahan HS, Dhanoolal N, Ungerer MC. 2005. Plasticity genes and plasticity costs: a new approach using an Arabidopsis recombinant inbred population. New Phytologist 166 : 129 140.
3. Caruso CM, Maherall H, Sherrard M. 2006. Plasticity of physiology in Lobelia: testing for adaptation and constraint. Evolution 60 : 980 990.
4. Dechaine JM, Johnston JA, Brock MT, Weinig C. 2007. Constraints on the evolution of adaptive plasticity: costs of plasticity to density are expressed in segregating progenies. New Phytologist 176 : 874 882.
5. DeWitt TJ, Sih A, Wilson DS. 1998. Costs and limits of phenotypic plasticity. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 13 : 77 81.
6. Dorn LA, Pyle EH, Schmitt J. 2000. Plasticity to light cues and resources in Arabidopsis thaliana: testing for adaptive value and costs. Evolution 54 : 1982 1994.
7. Fischer M, van Kleunen M, Schmid B. 2000. Genetic Allee effects on performance, plasticity, and developmental stability in a clonal plant. Ecology Letters 3 : 530 539.
8. Griffith TM, Sultan SE. 2006. Plastic and constant developmental traits contribute to adaptive differences in co-occurring Polygonum species. Oikos 114 : 5 14.
9. van Kleunen M, Fischer M. 2005. Constraints on the evolution of adaptive phenotypic plasticity in plants. New Phytologist 166 : 49 60.
10. van Kleunen M, Fischer M, Schmid B. 2000. Costs of plasticity in foraging characteristics of the clonal plant Ranunculus reptans. Evolution 54 : 1947 1955.
11. Scheiner SM, Berrigan D. 1998. The genetics of phenotypic plasticity. VII. The cost of plasticity in Daphnia pulex. Evolution 52 : 368 378.
12. van Tienderen PH. 1991. Evolution of generalists and specialists in spatially heterogeneous environments. Evolution 45 : 1317 1331.
13. Waddington CH. 1960. Experiments on canalizing selection. Genetical Research 1 : 140 150.
14. Weijschede J, Martínková J, de Kroon H, Huber H. 2006. Shade avoidance in Trifolium repens: costs and benefits of plasticity in petiole length and leaf size. New Phytologist 172 : 655 666.
15. Weinig C, Johnston J, German ZM, Demink LM. 2006. Local and global costs of adaptive plasticity to density in Arabidopsis thaliana. American Naturalist 167 : 826 836.