加快的生长增加了树木的体质表皮化率.
Ming Zhou1, Gerhard Schmied2, Binh Thanh Vo1
1Plant Epigenomics, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.
Nature communications
|October 28, 2025
概括
增长加速的树木表现出更高的体质表皮转移率. 这表明,长寿树的缓慢生长可能是随着时间的推移保持遗传和表观遗传稳定的策略.
科学领域:
- 植物生物学 植物生物学
- 进化生物学是进化的生物学.
- 遗传学 遗传学 是一个
背景情况:
- 树木对生态系统和经济至关重要,它们的长寿命使得它们非常适合研究体质突变和表皮突变.
- 寿命较长的物种表现出这些随机事件的年率较低,可能是由于生长速度较慢和细胞分裂较少.
- "线粒速率假说"提出,减少细胞分裂将减少DNA复制错误,但直接测试是困难的.
研究的目的:
- 研究树木中生长速度和体内表皮突变的积累之间的关系.
- 通过检查实验性改变生长速度的树木来测试"菌率假说".
主要方法:
- 利用了一项150年历史的欧洲实验,涉及稀释以诱导增长加速.
- 评估了主要茎和侧枝的每年体内表皮移率.
- 测量了与生长变化相关的每单位时间细胞分裂率.
主要成果:
- 在欧洲中,稀疏引起的生长加速显著增加了每年体质表皮切开率.
- 进化率的增加与每单位时间的细胞分裂率的增加成正比.
- 这些发现为线粒速率与表观遗传稳定性之间的联系提供了实证支持.
结论:
- 长寿树的缓慢生长可能是一种进化的策略,以保持遗传和表观遗传的忠实性.
- 生命史对树木生长速度的约束不仅有生态和结构作用,而且还保护了基因组的完整性.
- 这项研究提供了直接证据,支持长寿植物物种中的"线粒速率假说".
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