{"title":"Complex consequences of disturbance on canopy plant communities of world forests: a review and synthesis","authors":"Nalini M. Nadkarni","doi":"10.1111/nph.19245","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nph.19245","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Epiphytes and their associated biota are increasingly recognized as contributing to biodiversity and to filling critical ecosystem functions in world forests. However, the attributes that have made them successful in canopy environments also make them vulnerable to natural and human-induced disturbances. Drawing upon ecological frameworks to understand disturbance, I categorized and synthesized the drivers and the consequences of disturbances on epiphytic materials. Across all impacts, disturbance agents were significantly more likely to lead to negative, rather than positive, effects in both tropical and temperate locales. Significantly more studies reported negative effects on abundance, diversity, community composition and connectivity, but some studies showed that disturbances enhanced these attributes. Although particular disturbance agents did not differently influence individual consequences, they explained a significant portion of variation in aggregated totals. Surprisingly, relative to human disturbances, natural disturbances were more likely to lead to negative effects. Many studies provided recommendations for effective societal responses to mitigate negative impacts, such as retaining large, old trees in forestry operations, patch-clearing for epiphyte harvest, maximizing forest fragment size, using epiphytes as bioindicators of disturbance, and applying principles of community forestry to land management. Future actions should also include communication of these results to policymakers and land managers.</p>","PeriodicalId":48887,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"240 4","pages":"1366-1380"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nph.19245","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41216833","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":"Tackling redundancy: genetic mechanisms underlying paralog compensation in plants","authors":"Sessen Daniel Iohannes, David Jackson","doi":"10.1111/nph.19267","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nph.19267","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Gene duplication is a powerful source of biological innovation giving rise to paralogous genes that undergo diverse fates. Redundancy between paralogous genes is an intriguing outcome of duplicate gene evolution, and its maintenance over evolutionary time has long been considered a paradox. Redundancy can also be dubbed ‘a geneticist's nightmare’: It hinders the predictability of genome editing outcomes and limits our ability to link genotypes to phenotypes. Genetic studies in yeast and plants have suggested that the ability of ancient redundant duplicates to compensate for dosage perturbations resulting from a loss of function depends on the reprogramming of gene expression, a phenomenon known as active compensation. Starting from considerations on the stoichiometric constraints that drive the evolutionary stability of redundancy, this review aims to provide insights into the mechanisms of active compensation between duplicates that could be targeted for breaking paralog dependencies – the next frontier in plant functional studies.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48887,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"240 4","pages":"1381-1389"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41148514","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}
Claire M. Barnes, Ann L. Power, Daniel G. Barber, Richard K. Tennant, Richard T. Jones, G. Rob Lee, Jackie Hatton, Angela Elliott, Joana Zaragoza-Castells, Stephen M. Haley, Huw D. Summers, Minh Doan, Anne E. Carpenter, Paul Rees, John Love
{"title":"Deductive automated pollen classification in environmental samples via exploratory deep learning and imaging flow cytometry","authors":"Claire M. Barnes, Ann L. Power, Daniel G. Barber, Richard K. Tennant, Richard T. Jones, G. Rob Lee, Jackie Hatton, Angela Elliott, Joana Zaragoza-Castells, Stephen M. Haley, Huw D. Summers, Minh Doan, Anne E. Carpenter, Paul Rees, John Love","doi":"10.1111/nph.19186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19186","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":48887,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"240 3","pages":"1305-1326"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nph.19186","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41087479","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}
Qing Zheng, Yuntao Hu, Suzanne M. Kosina, Marc W. Van Goethem, Susannah G. Tringe, Benjamin P. Bowen, Trent R. Northen
{"title":"Conservation of beneficial microbes between the rhizosphere and the cyanosphere","authors":"Qing Zheng, Yuntao Hu, Suzanne M. Kosina, Marc W. Van Goethem, Susannah G. Tringe, Benjamin P. Bowen, Trent R. Northen","doi":"10.1111/nph.19225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19225","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":48887,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"240 3","pages":"1246-1258"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nph.19225","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41087687","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}
Philippe Rieu, Mo?ra Arnoux-Courseaux, Gabrielle Tichtinsky, Fran?ois Parcy
{"title":"Thinking outside the F-box: how UFO controls angiosperm development","authors":"Philippe Rieu, Mo?ra Arnoux-Courseaux, Gabrielle Tichtinsky, Fran?ois Parcy","doi":"10.1111/nph.19234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19234","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The formation of inflorescences and flowers is essential for the successful reproduction of angiosperms. In the past few decades, genetic studies have identified the LEAFY transcription factor and the UNUSUAL FLORAL ORGANS (UFO) F-box protein as two major regulators of flower development in a broad range of angiosperm species. Recent research has revealed that UFO acts as a transcriptional cofactor, redirecting the LEAFY floral regulator to novel <i>cis</i>-elements. In this review, we summarize the various roles of UFO across species, analyze past results in light of new discoveries and highlight the key questions that remain to be solved.</p>","PeriodicalId":48887,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"240 3","pages":"945-959"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nph.19234","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41087646","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}
Michael Borg, Stacy A. Krueger-Hadfield, Christophe Destombe, Jonas Collén, Agnieszka Lipinska, Susana M. Coelho
{"title":"Red macroalgae in the genomic era","authors":"Michael Borg, Stacy A. Krueger-Hadfield, Christophe Destombe, Jonas Collén, Agnieszka Lipinska, Susana M. Coelho","doi":"10.1111/nph.19211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19211","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Rhodophyta (or red algae) are a diverse and species-rich group that forms one of three major lineages in the Archaeplastida, a eukaryotic supergroup whose plastids arose from a single primary endosymbiosis. Red algae are united by several features, such as relatively small intron-poor genomes and a lack of cytoskeletal structures associated with motility like flagella and centrioles, as well as a highly efficient photosynthetic capacity. Multicellular red algae (or macroalgae) are one of the earliest diverging eukaryotic lineages to have evolved complex multicellularity, yet despite their ecological, evolutionary, and commercial importance, they have remained a largely understudied group of organisms. Considering the increasing availability of red algal genome sequences, we present a broad overview of fundamental aspects of red macroalgal biology and posit on how this is expected to accelerate research in many domains of red algal biology in the coming years.</p>","PeriodicalId":48887,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"240 2","pages":"471-488"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nph.19211","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41081736","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}
Bethany L. Holland, Megan L. Matthews, Pedro Bota, Lee J. Sweetlove, Stephen P. Long, George C. diCenzo
{"title":"A genome-scale metabolic reconstruction of soybean and Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens reveals the cost–benefit of nitrogen fixation","authors":"Bethany L. Holland, Megan L. Matthews, Pedro Bota, Lee J. Sweetlove, Stephen P. Long, George C. diCenzo","doi":"10.1111/nph.19203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19203","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":48887,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"240 2","pages":"744-756"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nph.19203","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41081738","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":"How deep should we go to understand roots at the top of the world?","authors":"S?ren E. Weber, Colleen M. Iversen","doi":"10.1111/nph.19220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19220","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Informed by vegetation maps across high-latitude landscapes, terrestrial biosphere models are a tool that can be used to predict changes in the composition and function of vegetation, above- and belowground, across the land surface in response to changing environmental conditions. However, terrestrial biosphere models represent vegetation characteristics at a finer grain than mapped vegetation communities. These models group plant species that colonize high-latitude biomes by their functional trait variation into plant functional types (PFTs) that characterize the impacts of plant species on, and their response to changes in, their surrounding abiotic and biotic environment. Blume-Werry <i>et al</i>. (<span>2023</span>) found that vegetation mapping units that broadly incorporate multiple plant species and functional types are too coarse, or encompass too much biological variation, to fully capture belowground plant trait variation. However, they did find that they could successfully cluster rooting depth observations into ‘Root Profile Types’, suggesting that modeling PFTs may be a useful tool to characterize above- and belowground linkages across high-latitude environments.</p><p>In many arctic and boreal ecosystems, plant roots are constrained by permafrost to a shallow ‘active layer’ of soil that thaws progressively over the course of each growing season. Blume-Werry <i>et al</i>. (<span>2023</span>) identified active layer thickness and the closely related minimum temperature of the coldest month as two of three main abiotic drivers constraining rooting depth distribution in their analysis (a third, cation exchange capacity, is more indicative of nutrient availability than a physical impediment). Furthermore, waterlogging can limit root distribution to surface, oxic soils, and can lead to a thick layer of poorly decomposed, organic peat at the soil surface with different characteristics from mineral soils (Fig. 1; Walker <i>et al</i>., <span>2003</span>). Indeed, Blume-Werry <i>et al</i>. (<span>2023</span>) found that despite similarities in species composition between wetland and graminoid tundra in CAVM mapping units, rooting depth in wetland tundra was shallower than graminoid tundra. This may indicate that waterlogged conditions can constrain rooting depth distribution, even in vegetation communities dominated by species with aerenchymatous roots. Ranging from rootless mosses and plant-like lichens to vascular graminoids and shrubs, and deciduous and evergreen trees, PFTs inhabiting the arctic tundra and boreal forest vary in their rooting depth distributions, their interactions with soil microbiota, and their ratio of belowground to aboveground tissues (e.g. root : shoot ratio; Chapin <i>et al</i>., <span>1996</span>). However, terrestrial biosphere models have often neglected the unique characteristics of the species that colonize high-latitude biomes, especially belowground (Iversen <i>et al</i>., <span>2015</span>, <span>2018</sp","PeriodicalId":48887,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"240 2","pages":"457-460"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nph.19220","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41082244","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}
Guoyu Hu, Danqiu Zhang, Dan Luo, Wenhui Sun, Rijin Zhou, Zonglie Hong, Shoaib Munir, Zhibiao Ye, Changxian Yang, Junhong Zhang, Taotao Wang
{"title":"SlTCP24 and SlTCP29 synergistically regulate compound leaf development through interacting with SlAS2 and activating transcription of SlCKX2 in tomato","authors":"Guoyu Hu, Danqiu Zhang, Dan Luo, Wenhui Sun, Rijin Zhou, Zonglie Hong, Shoaib Munir, Zhibiao Ye, Changxian Yang, Junhong Zhang, Taotao Wang","doi":"10.1111/nph.19221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19221","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>\u0000 \u0000 </p><ul>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>The complexity of compound leaves results primarily from the leaflet initiation and arrangement during leaf development. However, the molecular mechanism underlying compound leaf development remains a central research question.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>SlTCP24 and SlTCP29, two plant-specific transcription factors with the conserved TCP motif, are shown here to synergistically regulate compound leaf development in tomato. When both of them were knocked out simultaneously, the number of leaflets significantly increased, and the shape of the leaves became more complex. SlTCP24 and SlTCP29 could form both homodimers and heterodimers, and such dimerization was impeded by the leaf polarity regulator SlAS2, which interacted with SlTCP24 and SlTCP29.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>SlTCP24 and SlTCP29 could bind to the TCP-binding <i>cis</i>-element of the <i>SlCKX2</i> promoter and activate its transcription. Transgenic plants with <i>SlTCP24</i> and <i>SlTCP29</i> double-gene knockout had a lowered transcript level of <i>SlCKX2</i> and an elevated level of cytokinin.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>This work led to the identification of two key regulators of tomato compound leaf development and their targeted genes involved in cytokinin metabolic pathway. A model of regulation of compound leaf development was proposed based on observations of this study.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 \u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48887,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"240 3","pages":"1275-1291"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41087812","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}