The Effects of Nutrient Dynamics on Root Patch Choice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Shemesh, Hagai ^a   Arbiv, Adi ^a   Gersani, Mordechai ^a   Ovadia, Ofer ^a   Novoplansky, Ariel ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PEA; PLANT ROOT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BIOMASS; FOOD; PEAS; PLANT ROOTS; REPRODUCTION;

PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 77956525542     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010824     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Hutchings MJ, de Kroon H (1994) Foraging in plants - the role of morphological plasticity in resource acquisition. Advances in Ecological Research 25: 159-238.
2. Levins R (1968) Evolution in changing environments. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
3. Schlichting CD (1986) The evolution of phenotypic plasticity in plants. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 17: 667-693.
4. Sultan SE (2000) Phenotypic plasticity for plant development, function and life history. Trends in Plant Science 5: 537-542.
5. Alpert P, Simms EL (2002) The relative advantages of plasticity and fixity in different environments: when is it good for a plant to adjust? Evolutionary Ecology 16: 285-297.
6. Jackson RB, Caldwell MM (1993) The scale of nutrient heterogeneity around individual plants and its quantification with geostatistics. Ecology 74: 612-614.
7. Hodge A (2004) The plastic plant: root responses to heterogeneous supplies of nutrients. New Phytologist 162: 9-24.
8. Hodge A (2009) Root decisions. Plant Cell and Environment 32: 628-640.
9. Dyer AR, Goldberg DE, Turkington R, Sayre C (2001) Effects of growing conditions and source habitat on plant traits and functional group definition. Functional Ecology 15: 85-95.
10. Bloom AJ, Chapin FS, Mooney HA (1985) Resource limitation in plants - an economic analogy. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 16: 363-392.
11. Gersani M, Sachs T (1992) Development correlations between roots in heterogeneous environments. Plant Cell and Environment 15: 463-469.
12. Kembel SW, Cahill JF (2005) Plant phenotypic plasticity belowground: A phylogenetic perspective on root foraging trade-offs. American Naturalist 166: 216-230.
13. Larsen KS, Jonasson S, Michelsen A (2002) Repeated freeze-thaw cycles and their effects on biological processes in two arctic ecosystem types. Applied Soil Ecology 21: 187-195.
14. Bilbrough CJ, Caldwell MM (1997) Exploitation of springtime ephemeral N pulses by six Great Basin plant species. Ecology 78: 231-243.
15. Moran NA (1992) The evolutionary maintenance of alternative phenotypes. American Naturalist 139: 971-989.
16. Owen JP, Mullens BA, Justus KA, Carde RT (2005) Northern fowl mite orientation in a thermal gradient and evidence for idiothetic course control. Physiological Entomology 30: 293-302.
17. Wallraff HG (2004) Avian olfactory navigation: its empirical foundation and conceptual state. Animal Behaviour 67: 189-204.
18. Eisenbach M (2007) A hitchhiker's guide through advances and conceptual changes in chemotaxis. Journal of Cellular Physiology 213: 574-580.
19. Shimansky YP (2009) Biologically plausible learning in neural networks: a lesson from bacterial chemotaxis. Biological Cybernetics 101: 379-385.
20. Novoplansky A (2009) Picking battles wisely: plant behaviour under competition. Plant Cell and Environment 32: 726-741.
21. Weijschede J, Martinkova 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.
22. Nyanumba SM (2007) Developmental strategies of plants under temporal variation in growth conditions: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
23. Quilchano C, Maranon T, Perez-Ramos IM, Noejovich L, Valladares F, et al. (2008) Patterns and ecological consequences of abiotic heterogeneity in managed cork oak forests of Southern Spain. Ecological Research 23: 127-139.
24. Novoplansky A (1996) Developmental responses of individual Onobrychis plants to spatial heterogeneity. Vegetatio 127: 31-39.
25. Zar JH (1999) Biostatistical analysis. Upper Saddle RiverNew Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc.
26. Drew MC, Saker LR (1978) Nutrient supply and growth of seminal root-system in Barley.3. Compensatory increases in growth of lateral roots, and in rates of phosphate uptake, in response to a localized supply of phosphate. Journal of Experimental Botany 29: 435-451.
27. Snow R (1931) Experiments on growth and inhibition. II. New phenomena of inhibition. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B Biological Sciences 108: 305-316.
28. Novoplansky A, Cohen D, Sachs T (1989) Ecological implications of correlative inhibition between plant shoots. Physiologia Plantarum 77: 136-140.
29. Ingestad T, Agren GI (1988) Nutrient-uptake and allocation at steady-state nutrition. Physiologia Plantarum 72: 450-459.
30. Chapin FS (1980) The mineral-nutrition of wild plants. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 11: 233-260.
31. van Wijk MT, Williams M, Gough L, Hobbie SE, Shaver GR (2003) Luxury consumption of soil nutrients: a possible competitive strategy in above-ground and below-ground biomass allocation and root morphology for slow-growing arctic vegetation? Journal of Ecology 91: 664-676.
32. Robinson D (1994) The responses of plants to nonuniform supplies of nutrients. New Phytologist 127: 635-674.
33. van Vuuren MMI, Robinson D, Griffiths BS (1996) Nutrient inflow and root proliferation during the exploitation of a temporally and spatially discrete source of nitrogen in soil. Plant and Soil 178: 185-192.
34. Aphalo PJ, Ballare CL (1995) On the importance of information-acquiring systems in plant-plant interactions. Functional Ecology 9: 5-14.
35. Karban R (2008) Plant behaviour and communication. Ecology Letters 11: 727-739.
36. Darwin CR (1880) The power of movement in plants. London: John Murray.
37. Gilroy S, Masson PH, eds (2008) Plant tropisms. AmesIowa: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
38. Ballare CL, Scopel AL, Sanchez RA (1990) Far-Red radiation reflected from adjacent leaves - an early signal of competition in plant canopies. Science 247: 329-332.
39. Jones M, Harper JL (1987) The influence of neighbours on the growth of trees.1. the demography of buds in Betula pendula. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 232: 1-18.
40. Trewavas A (2009) What is plant behaviour? Plant Cell and Environment 32: 606-616.
41. Sung S, Amasino RM (2005) Remembering winter: Toward a molecular understanding of vernalization. Annual Review of Plant Biology 56: 491-508.
42. Desbiez MO, Kergosien Y, Champagnat P, Thellier M (1984) Memorization and delayed expression of regulatory messages in plants. Planta 160: 392-399.
43. Engelberth J, Alborn HT, Schmelz EA, Tumlinson JH (2004) Airborne signals prime plants against insect herbivore attack. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 101: 1781-1785.
44. Conrath U, Beckers GJM, Flors V, Garcia-Agustin P, Jakab G, et al. (2006) Priming: Getting ready for battle. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 19: 1062-1071.
45. Luo ZB, Janz D, Jiang XN, Gobel C, Wildhagen H, et al. (2009) Upgrading root physiology for stress tolerance by ectomycorrhizas: insights from metabolite and transcriptional profiling into reprogramming for stress anticipation. Plant Physiology 151: 1902-1917.
46. DeWitt TJ, Sih A, Wilson DS (1998) Costs and limits of phenotypic plasticity. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 13: 77-81.
47. Spieler M, Linsenmair KE (1997) Choice of optimal oviposition sites by Hoplobatrachus occipitalis (Anura: Ranidae) in an unpredictable and patchy environment. Oecologia 109: 184-199.
48. Masi E, Ciszak M, Stefano G, Renna L, Azzarello E, et al. (2009) Spatiotemporal dynamics of the electrical network activity in the root apex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106: 4048-4053.