Plant DiversityPub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2022.12.007
Yi Jin , Hong Qian
{"title":"U.PhyloMaker: An R package that can generate large phylogenetic trees for plants and animals","authors":"Yi Jin , Hong Qian","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2022.12.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pld.2022.12.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The previously released packages of the PhyloMaker series (i.e. S.PhyloMaker, V.PhyloMaker, and V.PhyloMaker2) have been broadly used to generate phylogenetic trees for ecological and biogeographical studies. Although these packages can be used to generate phylogenetic trees for any groups of plants and animals for which megatrees are available, they focus on generating phylogenetic trees for plants based on the megatrees provided by the packages. How to use these packages to generate phylogenetic trees based on other megatrees is not straightforward. Here, we present a new tool, which is called ‘U.PhyloMaker’, and a simple R script that can be used to easily generate large phylogenetic trees for both plants and animals at a relatively fast speed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":"45 3","pages":"Pages 347-352"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/4f/e0/main.PMC10311187.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9746559","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 : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2022.04.001
Yunrui Ji , Minghui Mou , Huimin Zhang , Ruling Wang , Songguo Wu , Yifen Jing , Haiyan Zhang , Lanxin Li , Zhifang Li , Ligang Chen
{"title":"GhWRKY33 negatively regulates jasmonate-mediated plant defense to Verticillium dahliae","authors":"Yunrui Ji , Minghui Mou , Huimin Zhang , Ruling Wang , Songguo Wu , Yifen Jing , Haiyan Zhang , Lanxin Li , Zhifang Li , Ligang Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2022.04.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2022.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><em>Verticillium</em> wilt, caused by <em>Verticillium dahliae</em>, seriously restricts the yield and quality improvement of cotton. Previous studies have revealed the involvement of WRKY members in plant defense against <em>V. dahliae</em>, but the underlying mechanisms involved need to be further elucidated. Here, we demonstrated that <em>Gossypium hirsutum</em> WRKY DNA-binding protein 33 (<em>GhWRKY33</em>) functions as a negative regulator in plant defense against <em>V. dahliae</em>. <em>GhWRKY33</em> expression is induced rapidly by <em>V. dahliae</em> and methyl jasmonate, and overexpression of <em>GhWRKY33</em> reduces plant tolerance to <em>V. dahliae</em> in <em>Arabidopsis</em>. Quantitative RT-PCR analysis revealed that expression of several JA-associated genes was significantly repressed in <em>GhWRKY33</em> overexpressing transgenic plants. Yeast one-hybrid analysis revealed that GhWRKY33 may repress the transcription of both <em>AtERF1</em> and <em>GhERF2</em> through its binding to their promoters. Protein–protein interaction analysis suggested that GhWRKY33 interacts with <em>G. hirsutum</em> JASMONATE ZIM-domain protein 3 (GhJAZ3). Similarly, overexpression of <em>GhJAZ3</em> also decreases plant tolerance to <em>V. dahliae</em>. Furthermore, GhJAZ3 acts synergistically with GhWRKY33 to suppress both <em>AtERF1</em> and <em>GhERF2</em> expression. Our results imply that <em>GhWRKY33</em> may negatively regulate plant tolerance to <em>V. dahliae</em> via the JA-mediated signaling pathway.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":"45 3","pages":"Pages 337-346"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49791587","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 : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2023.04.002
Yan Zheng, L. Luo, Xieshengyang Li, Qian Chen, Ya Yang, Y. Duan, X. Kong, Yongping Yang
{"title":"Human agricultural activities influence the flowering time of turnip in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau","authors":"Yan Zheng, L. Luo, Xieshengyang Li, Qian Chen, Ya Yang, Y. Duan, X. Kong, Yongping Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2023.04.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2023.04.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":"94 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79051114","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 : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2022.11.005
Xing-Zhao Huang , Fang-Bing Li , Zi-Xuan Wang , Yi Jin , Hong Qian
{"title":"Are allometric model parameters of aboveground biomass for trees phylogenetically constrained?","authors":"Xing-Zhao Huang , Fang-Bing Li , Zi-Xuan Wang , Yi Jin , Hong Qian","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2022.11.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pld.2022.11.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Knowledge of which biological and functional traits have, or lack, phylogenetic signal in a particular group of organisms is important to understanding the formation and functioning of biological communities. Allometric biomass models reflecting tree growth characteristics are commonly used to predict forest biomass. However, few studies have examined whether model parameters are constrained by phylogeny. Here, we use a comprehensive database (including 276 tree species) compiled from 894 allometric biomass models published in 302 articles to examine whether parameters a and b of the model <span><math><mrow><mi>W</mi><mo>=</mo><mi>a</mi><msup><mi>D</mi><mi>b</mi></msup></mrow></math></span> (where W stands for aboveground biomass, D is diameter at breast height) exhibit phylogenetic signal for all tree species as a whole and for different groups of tree species. For either model parameter, we relate difference in model parameter between different tree species to phylogenetic distance and to environmental distance between pairwise sites. Our study shows that neither model parameter exhibits phylogenetic signals (Pagel's λ and Blomberg's K both approach zero). This is the case regardless of whether all tree species in our data set were analyzed as a whole or tree species in different taxonomic groups (gymnosperm and angiosperm), leaf duration groups (evergreen and deciduous), or ecological groups (tropical, temperate and boreal) were analyzed separately. Our study also shows that difference in each parameter of the allometric biomass model is not significantly related to phylogenetic and environmental distances between tree species in different sites.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":"45 2","pages":"Pages 229-233"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10105221/pdf/main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9323846","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 : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2023.02.002
Lynn G. Clark
{"title":"Integrating genomic and morphological data into bamboo taxonomic and evolutionary studies","authors":"Lynn G. Clark","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2023.02.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pld.2023.02.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":"45 2","pages":"Pages 123-124"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10105125/pdf/main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9324481","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":"Legumes from the Paleocene sediments of India and their ecological significance","authors":"Harshita Bhatia , Gaurav Srivastava , R.C. Mehrotra","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2022.08.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pld.2022.08.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>During the early Paleogene, greenhouse gases created warm global climates. These warm climates redistributed the habitat of marine and terrestrial biota globally. Understanding the ecology of biotas under extremely warm climates is important to decipher their behavior in future climate warming. Here we report two new legume fossils (<em>Leguminocarpum meghalayensis</em> Bhatia, Srivastava et Mehrotra sp. nov., and <em>Parvileguminophyllum damalgiriensis</em> Bhatia, Srivastava et Mehrotra sp. nov.) from the late Paleocene sediments of Tura Formation of Meghalaya, northeast India. Globally, the Paleocene legume fossil records indicate that legumes most likely immigrated to India from Africa via the Ladakh-Kohistan Arc during the early Paleogene. Moreover, previously reconstructed climate data from the Tura Formation indicate that legumes were well adapted to a warm seasonal climate with monsoon rains.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":"45 2","pages":"Pages 199-210"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/1f/89/main.PMC10105134.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9970998","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 : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2023.03.002
Lin Zhang, Xiaoming Lu, Hua-Zhong Zhu, Shan Gao, Jian Sun, Hai-Feng Zhu, Jiang-Ping Fang, J. Camarero, E. Liang
{"title":"A rapid transition from spruce-fir to pine-broadleaf forests in response to disturbances and climate warming on the southeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau","authors":"Lin Zhang, Xiaoming Lu, Hua-Zhong Zhu, Shan Gao, Jian Sun, Hai-Feng Zhu, Jiang-Ping Fang, J. Camarero, E. Liang","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2023.03.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2023.03.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":"84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73534871","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 : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2022.05.001
Bin Yang , Jin-Yue Li , Rui-Jie Yang , Hong-Bo Ding , Min Deng , Chun-Fen Xiao , Yun-Juan Zuo , Yun-Hong Tan
{"title":"Two new species of Polyalthiopsis (Annonaceae) based on morphological characters and phylogenetic evidence, with a supplementary description of P. chinensis from China","authors":"Bin Yang , Jin-Yue Li , Rui-Jie Yang , Hong-Bo Ding , Min Deng , Chun-Fen Xiao , Yun-Juan Zuo , Yun-Hong Tan","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2022.05.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2022.05.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Two new species of <em>Polyalthiopsis</em> (Annonaceae), <em>P. nigra</em> Y.H. Tan & Bin Yang from Guangxi and Yunnan Provinces and <em>P. xui</em> Y.H. Tan & Bin Yang from Yunnan Province, are described and illustrated. <em>P. nigra</em> is morphologically similar to <em>P. chinensis</em> in having narrowly elliptic-oblong, lemon to yellowish green petals, but differs by having obovoid monocarps, a higher number of leaf secondary veins, leaf blades usually widest above the middle, and a lower ratio of leaf blade length to width. <em>P. xui</em> is morphologically similar to <em>P. floribunda</em> in having axillary inflorescences, 1–3(–4) flowers, elliptic leaves, and elliptic-ovate petals, but differs in the numbers of carpels per flower and ovules per carpel. The molecular phylogenetic analysis using five plastid markers confirm that the two new species belong to the genus <em>Polyalthiopsis</em> and show clear interspecific divergences between <em>P. nigra</em> and <em>P. xui</em> and between them and other species in the genus. Detailed descriptions, colored photographs, and habitat and distribution data for the two new species are provided. In addition, the fruit morphology of <em>P. chinensis</em> is described for the first time, based on living collections. Geographical distributions and a diagnostic key for all <em>Polyalthiopsis</em> species are also presented.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":"45 2","pages":"Pages 185-198"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49795506","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 : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2022.08.005
Irina A. Kirillova, Yuriy A. Dubrovskiy, Svetlana V. Degteva, Alexander B. Novakovskiy
{"title":"Ecological and habitat ranges of orchids in the northernmost regions of their distribution areas: A case study from Ural Mountains, Russia","authors":"Irina A. Kirillova, Yuriy A. Dubrovskiy, Svetlana V. Degteva, Alexander B. Novakovskiy","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2022.08.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pld.2022.08.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Orchidaceae, which is one of the most interesting families of angiosperms, contains a large number of rare species. Despite their acknowledged importance, little attention has been paid to the study of orchids distributed in northern territories. In this study, we determined the syntaxonomical diversity and ecological parameters of orchid habitats in two of Europe's largest protected areas, the Pechoro-Ilychsky Reserve and the Yugyd Va National Park (northeastern European Russia), and then compared our findings to those in other parts of orchid distribution ranges. For this purpose, we studied 345 descriptions of plant communities (releves) containing species from Orchidaceae and defined habitat parameters using Ellenberg indicator values with the community weight mean approach, nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMS), and relative niche width. We found that orchids were distributed in eight habitat types and 97 plant associations. The largest number of orchid species is found in forest communities. Half of the orchid species under study occur in the mires and rock habitats with open vegetation. Several orchids consistently occur in areas disturbed by human activity. In addition, our study indicates that the main drivers of orchid distribution across the vegetation types are light and soil nitrogen. Our analysis of the ecological parameters of orchid habitats indicates that some orchid species can be classified as habitat specialists that are confined to a relatively narrow ecological niche in the Urals (e.g., <em>Goodyera repens, Cypripedium guttatum</em> and <em>Dactylorhiza maculata</em>). Several other species (e.g. <em>Neottia cordata</em> and <em>Dactylorhiza fuchsia</em>) grow under diverse ecological parameters.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":"45 2","pages":"Pages 211-218"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10105133/pdf/main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9379540","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 : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2022.04.002
Shi-Yu Lv , Xia-Ying Ye , Zhong-Hu Li , Peng-Fei Ma , De-Zhu Li
{"title":"Testing complete plastomes and nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences for species identification in a taxonomically difficult bamboo genus Fargesia","authors":"Shi-Yu Lv , Xia-Ying Ye , Zhong-Hu Li , Peng-Fei Ma , De-Zhu Li","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2022.04.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2022.04.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><em>Fargesia</em>, the largest genus within the temperate bamboo tribe Arundinarieae, has more than 90 species mainly distributed in the mountains of Southwest China. The <em>Fargesia</em> bamboos are important components of the subalpine forest ecosystems that provide food and habitat for many endangered animals, including the giant panda. However, species-level identification of <em>Fargesia</em> is difficult. Moreover, the rapid radiation and slow molecular evolutionary rate of <em>Fargesia</em> pose a significant challenge to using DNA barcoding with standard plant barcodes (<em>rbcL</em>, <em>matK</em>, and ITS) in bamboos. With progress in the sequencing technologies, complete plastid genomes (plastomes) and nuclear ribosomal DNA (nrDNA) sequences have been proposed as organelle barcodes for species identification; however, these have not been tested in bamboos. We collected 196 individuals representing 62 species of <em>Fargesia</em> to comprehensively evaluate the discriminatory power of plastomes and nrDNA sequences compared to standard barcodes. Our analysis indicates that complete plastomes have substantially higher discriminatory power (28.6%) than standard barcodes (5.7%), whereas nrDNA sequences show a moderate improvement (65.4%) compared to ITS (47.2%). We also found that nuclear markers performed better than plastid markers, and ITS alone had higher discriminatory power than complete plastomes. The study also demonstrated that plastomes and nrDNA sequences can contribute to intrageneric phylogenetic resolution in <em>Fargesia</em>. However, neither of these sequences were able to discriminate all the sampled species, and therefore, more nuclear markers need to be identified.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":"45 2","pages":"Pages 147-155"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49795992","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}