Post-floral Erection of Stalks Provides Insight into the Evolution of Fruit Orientation and Its Effects on Seed Dispersal | |
Niu, Yang; Zhou, Zhuo; Sha, Wen; Sun, Hang | |
2016-02-02 | |
发表期刊 | SCIENTIFIC REPORTS |
卷号 | 6期号:1页码:1 |
摘要 | That stalks reorient after flowering to face upwards is a common phenomenon in many flowering plants, indicating the potential importance of fruit orientation on seed dispersal. But this idea has not been subject to an empirical test. We examined this hypothesis by analysing the evolutionary correlation between fruit orientation and other characters and by investigating the effects of fruit orientation on seed dispersal. We found that 1) in a sub-alpine plant community, upward fruit orientation strongly correlates with fruits that act as seed containers, which are often of dry type and are dispersed by non-animal vectors; 2) as exemplified by the Campanulaceae s. str., fruit orientation strongly correlates with dehiscence position. Upwardly-oriented capsules dehisce at the apex, whereas pendent ones dehisce at the base, in both cases ensuring that seeds are released from an upright position; 3) in manipulation experiments on Silene chungtienensis, upward fruits (the natural state) exhibit much greater dispersal distances and more dispersive pattern than pendent ones, and have a more even distribution of dispersal direction than horizontal ones. Our results suggest that fruit orientation may have important function in seed dispersal, which may be the reason why the phenomenon that stalk erection after flowering occurs widely. |
DOI | 10.1038/srep20146 |
收录类别 | SCI |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000369139100001 |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://ir.kib.ac.cn/handle/151853/25944 |
专题 | 中国科学院东亚植物多样性与生物地理学重点实验室 |
作者单位 | Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Plant Div & Biogeog East Asia, Kunming Inst Bot, 132 Lanhei Rd, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Niu, Yang,Zhou, Zhuo,Sha, Wen,et al. Post-floral Erection of Stalks Provides Insight into the Evolution of Fruit Orientation and Its Effects on Seed Dispersal[J]. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,2016,6(1):1. |
APA | Niu, Yang,Zhou, Zhuo,Sha, Wen,&Sun, Hang.(2016).Post-floral Erection of Stalks Provides Insight into the Evolution of Fruit Orientation and Its Effects on Seed Dispersal.SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,6(1),1. |
MLA | Niu, Yang,et al."Post-floral Erection of Stalks Provides Insight into the Evolution of Fruit Orientation and Its Effects on Seed Dispersal".SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 6.1(2016):1. |
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