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Context-Dependent Parental Effects on Clonal Offspring Performance.

Bi-Cheng Dong¹, Mark van Kleunen^2,3, Fei-Hai Yu^1,3,4

¹School of Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China.

Frontiers in Plant Science

|December 22, 2018

Summary

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Parental environments significantly impact offspring fitness in plants. Nutrient availability in parent plants boosts offspring performance, with effects varying based on offspring conditions and how performance is measured.

Keywords:

Alternanthera philoxeroides clonal plant individual and whole-generation levels parental environmental effect soil nutrients vegetative offspring

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Area of Science:

Plant Ecology
Environmental Science
Genetics

Background:

Parental environments can influence offspring fitness.
These effects may vary with offspring environments and the scale of measurement (individual vs. all offspring).

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how parental nutrient environments affect offspring performance in a clonal plant.
To determine if parental effects persist across generations and depend on offspring environments.

Main Methods:

Grew parent plants in high and low nutrient conditions.
Obtained first-generation clonal offspring and grew them in high and low nutrient conditions.
Measured mean and summed performance of second-generation clonal offspring.

Main Results:

High parental nutrient availability increased both mean and summed offspring performance.
Parental effects on summed performance were stronger with higher offspring nutrient conditions.
Parental effects on mean performance were independent of offspring nutrient conditions.

Conclusions:

Parental environmental effects can persist across vegetative generations.
These effects are strongly influenced by offspring environments and nutrient levels.