| Dormancy-Related Seed Positional Effect in Two Populations of an Annual Grass from Locations of Contrasting Aridity |
| Volis, Sergei
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| 通讯作者 | Volis, S (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Kunming Inst Bot, Key Lab Plant Div & Biogeog East Asia, Kunming, Peoples R China.
; volis@mail.kib.ac.cn
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| 2014-03-27
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| 发表期刊 | PLOS ONE
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| ISSN | 1932-6203
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| 卷号 | 9期号:3页码:e93061 |
| 摘要 | In grasses, variation in seed size and dormancy often results from a seed's position within a dispersal unit. In this paper, I asked whether seed positional effect within a spikelet contributes to ecotypic differentiation between two populations of Avena sterilis having different species range position and associated aridity. I created experimental seed banks in which germination of seeds (florets) having different positions within a spikelet was examined over three years. In addition, two germination tests were conducted under controlled conditions. The two populations were found to have a short-living soil seed bank due to sequential germination of the florets. Although positional seed dormancy effect in A. sterilis does not appear to be a specific desert adaptation against unpredictability of rainfall events, this trait does contribute to ecotypic differentiation between desert and Mediterranean populations. Consistent with bet hedging buffering against rainfall unpredictability, germination fractions in the first year were higher in the Mediterranean than in the desert population, while seeds of the desert origin had stronger dormancy and more sequential germination of florets. |
| 关键词 | Oats Avena-fatua
Variable Environments
Pure Lines
Desert
Germination
Demography
Consequences
Temperature
Dynamics
Banking
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| 学科领域 | Multidisciplinary Sciences
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0093061
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| 收录类别 | SCI
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| 语种 | 英语
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| WOS记录号 | WOS:000333677500068
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文
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| 条目标识符 | http://ir.kib.ac.cn/handle/151853/18061
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| 专题 | 资源植物与生物技术所级重点实验室
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| 作者单位 | Chinese Acad Sci, Kunming Inst Bot, Key Lab Plant Div & Biogeog East Asia, Kunming, Peoples R China
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Volis, Sergei. Dormancy-Related Seed Positional Effect in Two Populations of an Annual Grass from Locations of Contrasting Aridity[J]. PLOS ONE,2014,9(3):e93061.
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Volis, Sergei.(2014).Dormancy-Related Seed Positional Effect in Two Populations of an Annual Grass from Locations of Contrasting Aridity.PLOS ONE,9(3),e93061.
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Volis, Sergei."Dormancy-Related Seed Positional Effect in Two Populations of an Annual Grass from Locations of Contrasting Aridity".PLOS ONE 9.3(2014):e93061.
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