Plant DiversityPub Date : 2024-06-17eCollection Date: 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2024.06.001
Linjiang Ye, Robabeh Shahi Shavvon, Hailing Qi, Hongyu Wu, Pengzhen Fan, Mohammad Nasir Shalizi, Safiullah Khurram, Mamadzhanov Davletbek, Yerlan Turuspekov, Jie Liu
{"title":"Population genetic insights into the conservation of common walnut (<i>Juglans regia</i>) in Central Asia.","authors":"Linjiang Ye, Robabeh Shahi Shavvon, Hailing Qi, Hongyu Wu, Pengzhen Fan, Mohammad Nasir Shalizi, Safiullah Khurram, Mamadzhanov Davletbek, Yerlan Turuspekov, Jie Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2024.06.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2024.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The common walnut (<i>Juglans regia</i>) is one of the most economically important nut trees cultivated worldwide. Despite its importance, no comprehensive evaluation of walnut tree population genetics has been undertaken across the range where it originated, Central Asia. In this study, we investigated the genetic diversity and population structure of 1082 individuals from 46 populations across Central Asia. We found moderate genetic diversity of <i>J. regia</i> across Central Asia, with 46 populations clustered into three groups with a weak relationship between genetic and geographic distance. Our findings reveal that the western Himalaya might be the core region of common walnut genetic diversity in Central Asia and that, except for two populations in Gongliu Wild Walnut Valley, humans might have introduced walnut populations to Xinjiang, China. The observed distribution of the genetic landscape has probably been affected by historical climate fluctuation, breeding system, and prolonged anthropogenic activity. We propose the conservation of the core genetic diversity resources in the western Himalaya and pay special attention to populations from Gongliu in Xinjiang. These findings enhance our understanding of the genetic variation throughout the distribution range of <i>J</i>. <i>regia</i> in Central Asia, which will provide a key prerequisite for evidence-based conservation and management.</p>","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11403145/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142293624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Plant DiversityPub Date : 2024-05-25eCollection Date: 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2024.05.005
Yanjun Du, Rongchen Zhang, Xinran Tang, Xinyang Wang, Lingfeng Mao, Guoke Chen, Jiangshan Lai, Keping Ma
{"title":"The mid-domain effect in flowering phenology.","authors":"Yanjun Du, Rongchen Zhang, Xinran Tang, Xinyang Wang, Lingfeng Mao, Guoke Chen, Jiangshan Lai, Keping Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2024.05.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2024.05.005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The timing of flowering is an important driver of species distribution and community assembly patterns. However, we still have much to learn about the factors that shape flowering diversity (i.e., number of species flowering per period) in plant communities. One potential explanation of flowering diversity is the mid-domain effect, which states that geometric constraints on species ranges within a bounded domain (space or time) will yield a mid-domain peak in diversity regardless of ecological factors. Here, we determine whether the mid-domain effect explains peak flowering time (i.e., when most species of communities are flowering) across China. We used phenological data of 16,267 herbaceous and woody species from the provincial <i>Flora</i> in China and species distribution data from the Chinese Vascular Plant Distribution Database to determine relationships between the observed number of species flowering and the number of species flowering as predicted by the mid-domain effect model, as well as between three climatic variables (mean minimum monthly temperature, mean monthly precipitation, and mean monthly sunshine duration). We found that the mid-domain effect explained a significant proportion of the temporal variation in flowering diversity across all species in China. Further, the mid-domain effect explained a greater proportion of variance in flowering diversity at higher latitudes than at lower latitudes. The patterns of flowering diversity for both herbaceous and woody species were related to both the mid-domain effect and environmental variables. Our findings indicate that including geometric constraints in conjunction with abiotic and biotic predictors will improve predictions of flowering diversity patterns.</p>","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11390702/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142293612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Plant DiversityPub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2024.05.001
Joeime F. Meñiza, Monica M. Pasco, Jemer A. Alimbon
{"title":"A review of ethnobotanical studies reveals over 500 medicinal plants in Mindanao, Philippines","authors":"Joeime F. Meñiza, Monica M. Pasco, Jemer A. Alimbon","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2024.05.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2024.05.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141035981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Plant DiversityPub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2024.04.010
Libing Pan, Xiaoyang Song, Wen-fu Zhang, Jie Yang, Min Cao
{"title":"Seedling dynamics differ between canopy species and understory species in a tropical seasonal rainforest, SW China","authors":"Libing Pan, Xiaoyang Song, Wen-fu Zhang, Jie Yang, Min Cao","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2024.04.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2024.04.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141046468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Plant DiversityPub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2024.04.012
Wen-Hao Zeng, Shidan Zhu, Ying-Hua Luo, Wei Shi, Yong-Qiang Wang, K. Cao
{"title":"Aboveground biomass stocks of species-rich natural forests in southern China are influenced by stand structural attributes, species richness and precipitation","authors":"Wen-Hao Zeng, Shidan Zhu, Ying-Hua Luo, Wei Shi, Yong-Qiang Wang, K. Cao","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2024.04.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2024.04.012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141024741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Plant DiversityPub Date : 2024-04-29eCollection Date: 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2024.04.011
Yue Zhao, Ya-Ping Chen, Bryan T Drew, Fei Zhao, Maryam Almasi, Orzimat T Turginov, Jin-Fei Xiao, Abdul G Karimi, Yasaman Salmaki, Xiang-Qin Yu, Chun-Lei Xiang
{"title":"Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of <i>Phlomoides</i> (Lamiaceae subfamily Lamioideae) in China: Insights from molecular and morphological data.","authors":"Yue Zhao, Ya-Ping Chen, Bryan T Drew, Fei Zhao, Maryam Almasi, Orzimat T Turginov, Jin-Fei Xiao, Abdul G Karimi, Yasaman Salmaki, Xiang-Qin Yu, Chun-Lei Xiang","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2024.04.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2024.04.011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Phlomoides</i>, with 150-170 species, is the second largest and perhaps most taxonomically challenging genus within the subfamily Lamioideae (Lamiaceae). With about 60 species, China is one of three major biodiversity centers of <i>Phlomoides</i>. Although some <i>Phlomoides</i> species from China have been included in previous molecular phylogenetic studies, a robust and broad phylogeny of this lineage has yet to be completed. Moreover, given the myriad new additions to the genus, the existing infrageneric classification needs to be evaluated and revised. Here, we combine molecular and morphological data to investigate relationships within <i>Phlomoides</i>, with a focus on Chinese species. We observed that plastid DNA sequences can resolve relationships within <i>Phlomoides</i> better than nuclear ribosomal internal and external transcribed spacer regions (nrITS and nrETS). Molecular phylogenetic analyses confirm the monophyly of <i>Phlomoides</i>, but most previously defined infrageneric groups are not monophyletic. In addition, morphological analysis demonstrates the significant taxonomic value of eight characters to the genus. Based on our molecular phylogenetic analyses and morphological data, we establish a novel section <i>Notochaete</i> within <i>Phlomoides</i>, and propose three new combinations as well as three new synonyms. This study presents the first molecular phylogenetic analyses of <i>Phlomoides</i> in which taxa representative of the entire genus are included, and highlights the phylogenetic and taxonomic value of several morphological characters from species of <i>Phlomoides</i> from China. Our study suggests that a taxonomic revision and reclassification for the entire genus is necessary in the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11390604/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142293610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Plant DiversityPub Date : 2024-04-26eCollection Date: 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2024.04.009
Tana Wuyun, Lu Zhang, Tiina Tosens, Bin Liu, Kristiina Mark, José Ángel Morales-Sánchez, Jesamine Jöneva Rikisahedew, Vivian Kuusk, Ülo Niinemets
{"title":"Extremely thin but very robust: Surprising cryptogam trait combinations at the end of the leaf economics spectrum.","authors":"Tana Wuyun, Lu Zhang, Tiina Tosens, Bin Liu, Kristiina Mark, José Ángel Morales-Sánchez, Jesamine Jöneva Rikisahedew, Vivian Kuusk, Ülo Niinemets","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2024.04.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2024.04.009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Leaf economics spectrum (LES) describes the fundamental trade-offs between leaf structural, chemical, and physiological investments. Generally, structurally robust thick leaves with high leaf dry mass per unit area (LMA) exhibit lower photosynthetic capacity per dry mass (<i>A</i> <sub>mass</sub>). Paradoxically, \"soft and thin-leaved\" mosses and spikemosses have very low <i>A</i> <sub>mass</sub>, but due to minute-size foliage elements, their LMA and its components, leaf thickness (LT) and density (LD), have not been systematically estimated. Here, we characterized LES and associated traits in cryptogams in unprecedented details, covering five evolutionarily different lineages. We found that mosses and spikemosses had the lowest LMA and LT values ever measured for terrestrial plants. Across a broad range of species from different lineages, <i>A</i> <sub>mass</sub> and LD were negatively correlated. In contrast, <i>A</i> <sub>mass</sub> was only related to LMA when LMA was greater than 14 g cm<sup>-</sup> <sup>2</sup>. In fact, low <i>A</i> <sub>mass</sub> reflected high LD and cell wall thickness in the studied cryptogams. We conclude that evolutionarily old plant lineages attained poorly differentiated, ultrathin mesophyll by increasing LD. Across plant lineages, LD, not LMA, is the trait that represents the trade-off between leaf robustness and physiology in the LES.</p>","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11403144/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142293622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Origin and evolution of a new tetraploid mangrove species in an intertidal zone.","authors":"Hui Feng, Achyut Kumar Banerjee, Wuxia Guo, Yang Yuan, Fuyuan Duan, Wei Lun Ng, Xuming Zhao, Yuting Liu, Chunmei Li, Ying Liu, Linfeng Li, Yelin Huang","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2024.04.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2024.04.007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Polyploidy is a major factor in the evolution of plants, yet we know little about the origin and evolution of polyploidy in intertidal species. This study aimed to identify the evolutionary transitions in three true-mangrove species of the genus <i>Acanthus</i> distributed in the Indo-West Pacific region. For this purpose, we took an integrative approach that combined data on morphology, cytology, climatic niche, phylogeny, and biogeography of 493 samples from 42 geographic sites. Our results show that the <i>Acanthus ilicifolius</i> lineage distributed east of the Thai-Malay Peninsula possesses a tetraploid karyotype, which is morphologically distinct from that of the lineage on the west side. The haplotype networks and phylogenetic trees for the chloroplast genome and eight nuclear genes reveal that the tetraploid species has two sub-genomes, one each from <i>A. ilicifolius</i> and <i>A</i> <i>.</i> <i>ebracteatus</i>, the paternal and maternal parents, respectively. Population structure analysis also supports the hybrid speciation history of the new tetraploid species. The two sub-genomes of the tetraploid species diverged from their diploid progenitors during the Pleistocene. Environmental niche models revealed that the tetraploid species not only occupied the near-entire niche space of the diploids, but also expanded into novel environments. Our findings suggest that <i>A. ilicifolius</i> species distributed on the east side of the Thai-Malay Peninsula should be regarded as a new species, <i>A</i>. <i>tetraploideus</i>, which originated from hybridization between <i>A. ilicifolius</i> and <i>A. ebracteatus</i>, followed by chromosome doubling. This is the first report of a true-mangrove allopolyploid species that can reproduce sexually and clonally reproduction, which explains the long-term adaptive potential of the species.</p>","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11390703/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142293611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Genetically- and environmentally-dependent processes drive interspecific and intraspecific divergence in the Chinese relict endemic genus <i>Dipteronia</i>.","authors":"Tao Zhou, Xiaodan Chen, Jordi López-Pujol, Guoqing Bai, Sonia Herrando-Moraira, Neus Nualart, Xiao Zhang, Yuemei Zhao, Guifang Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2024.04.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2024.04.008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>China is a hotspot of relict plant species that were once widespread throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Recent research has demonstrated that the occurrence of long-term stable refugia in the mountainous regions of central and south-western China allowed their persistence through the late Neogene climate fluctuations. One of these relict lineages is <i>Dipteronia</i>, an oligotypic tree genus with a fossil record extending to the Paleocene. Here, we investigated the genetic variability, demographic dynamics and diversification patterns of the two currently recognized <i>Dipteronia</i> species (<i>D</i> <i>ipteronia</i> <i>sinensis</i> and <i>D</i> <i>.</i> <i>dyeriana</i>). Molecular data were obtained from 45 populations of <i>Dipteronia</i> by genotyping three cpDNA regions, two single copy nuclear genes and 15 simple sequence repeat loci. The genetic study was combined with niche comparison analyses on the environmental space, ecological niche modeling, and landscape connectivity analysis. We found that the two <i>Dipteronia</i> species have highly diverged both in genetic and ecological terms. Despite the incipient speciation processes that can be observed in <i>D. sinensis</i>, the occurrence of long-term stable refugia and, particularly, a dispersal corridor along Daba Shan-west Qinling, likely ensured its genetic and ecological integrity to date. Our study will not only help us to understand how populations of <i>Dipteronia</i> species responded to the tectonic and climatic changes of the Cenozoic, but also provide insight into how Arcto-Tertiary relict plants in East Asia survived, evolved, and diversified.</p>","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11403150/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142293623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}