1. Leaf economics and slow-fast adaptation across the geographic range of Arabidopsis thaliana
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Marianne Gerard, Kevin Sartori, Oscar Javier Ayala-Garay, Etienne Baron, Laura Garcia de Jalon, Maria Del Rey Granado, Agathe Chassagneux, Elena Kazakou, Denis Vile, François Vasseur, Diane Masclef, Nick P. Rowe, Cyrille Violle, Ananda Christophe, Erwan Harscouet, Maladies infectieuses et vecteurs : écologie, génétique, évolution et contrôle (MIVEGEC), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Écophysiologie des Plantes sous Stress environnementaux (LEPSE), Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro), Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), AGROCAMPUS OUEST, Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations (UMR AMAP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), INRA Dpt EA grant, European Research Council (ERC) (‘CONSTRAINTS’: grant ERC-StG-2014-639706-CONSTRAINTS), French Agency for Research (ANR grant ANR-17-CE02-0018-01, ‘AraBreed’), ANR-17-CE02-0018,AraBreed,Exploration des réponses évolutives des plantes à des changements environnementaux à la lumière des théories écologiques : un test expérimental chez l'espèce modèle Arabidopsis thaliana(2017), European Project: 609398,EC:FP7:PEOPLE,FP7-PEOPLE-2013-COFUND,AGREENSKILLSPLUS(2014), European Project: 639706,H2020,ERC-2014-STG,CONSTRAINTS(2015), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UM3)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro)
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0301 basic medicine ,allocation de ressources ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Biodiversité et Ecologie ,Arabidopsis ,lcsh:Medicine ,Biology ,Plant Physiological Phenomena ,Article ,Life history theory ,Biodiversity and Ecology ,adaptation au climat ,03 medical and health sciences ,Plant evolution ,0302 clinical medicine ,écologie fonctionnelle ,Plant ecology ,lcsh:Science ,media_common ,2. Zero hunger ,Functional ecology ,Multidisciplinary ,Ecology ,Geography ,arabidopsis thaliana ,fungi ,lcsh:R ,Longevity ,Ecological genetics ,food and beverages ,Interspecific competition ,15. Life on land ,Arid ,Plant Leaves ,030104 developmental biology ,Natural variation in plants ,Habitat ,comparaison intraspécifique ,13. Climate action ,lcsh:Q ,[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology ,Slow Growing ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
International audience; Life history strategies of most organisms are constrained by resource allocation patterns that follow a 'slow-fast continuum'. It opposes slow growing and long-lived organisms with late investment in reproduction to those that grow faster, have earlier and larger reproductive effort and a short longevity. In plants, the Leaf Economics Spectrum (LES) depicts a leaf-level trade-off between the rate of carbon assimilation and leaf lifespan, as stressed in functional ecology from interspecific comparative studies. However, it is still unclear how the LES is connected to the slow-fast syndrome. Interspecific comparisons also impede a deep exploration of the linkage between Les variation and adaptation to climate. Here, we measured growth, morpho-physiological and life-history traits, at both the leaf and whole-plant levels, in 378 natural accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana. We found that the Les is tightly linked to variation in whole-plant functioning, and aligns with the slow-fast continuum. A genetic analysis further suggested that phenotypic differentiation results from the selection of different slow-fast strategies in contrasted climates. slow growing and long-lived plants were preferentially found in cold and arid habitats while fast growing and short-lived ones in more favorable habitats. Our findings shed light on the role of the slow-fast continuum for plant adaptation to climate. More broadly, they encourage future studies to bridge functional ecology, genetics and evolutionary biology to improve our understanding of plant adaptation to environmental changes. Investigations of the genetic and phenotypic differentiation of plant lineages along environmental gradients is crucial for the understanding of plant evolutionary responses to current and future climate variations. As plants cannot simultaneously optimize competing eco-physiological functions, an important question is how plant adaptation occurs under the influence of major trade-offs between traits. The slow-fast continuum is a pervasive trade-off between resource allocation to growth, reproduction and survival , spread across the tree of life 1. The slow end of this continuum is characterized by slow growing, long-lived species and low reproductive output, while species at the fast end reach reproductive maturity faster and produce more offsprings. In plants, the leaf economics spectrum (LES hereafter) 2-4 is thought to reflect the physiological basis of the slow-fast continuum 4. The LES arrays plant species along a continuum of leaf trait syndromes going from short-lived leaves with fast metabolism to the reverse syndrome 3. Core LES traits include leaf dry mass per area (LMA), leaf lifespan (LLS) and net photosynthetic rate per mass unit (A mass) 3,5-7. LES traits are widely used in comparative ecology to infer whole-plant ecological strategies 4,8-12. However, the extent to which leaf-level resource economics reflects whole-plant physiology, performance, and ultimately fitness, is still under debate 13. Many processes can lead to a mismatch between LES and whole-plant functioning 14 , including the impact of self-shading among leaves and resource allocation patterns, such as carbon investment in non-photosynthetic tissues 15,16. To gain insights into the robustness of the slow-fast continuum at different organizational levels, we need
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- 2019