ArticlePlant signaling & behavior2014
Say it with flowers: flowering acceleration by root communication.
Article in Plant signaling & behavior, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Phytochemical Cue for the Fitness Costs of Herbicide-Resistant Weeds.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Kin Recognition in an Herbicide-Resistant Barnyardgrass (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Is ABA the exogenous vector of interplant drought cuing?Plant signaling & behavior · 2022Article
- Explaining pre-emptive acclimation by linking information to plant phenotype.Journal of experimental botany · 2022Review
- Adaptive mechanisms of plant specialized metabolism connecting chemistry to function.Nature chemical biology · 2021Review
- Leachates from plants recently infected by root-feeding nematodes cause increased biomass allocation to roots in neighbouring plants.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
The timing of reproduction is a critical determinant of fitness, especially in organisms inhabiting seasonal environments. Increasing evidence suggests that inter-plant communication plays important roles in plant functioning. Here, we tested the hypothesis that flowering coordination can involve communication between neighboring plants. We show that soil leachates from Brassica rapa plants growing under long-day conditions accelerated flowering and decreased allocation to vegetative organs in target plants growing under non-inductive short-day conditions. The results suggest that besides endogenous signaling and external abiotic cues, flowering timing may involve inter-plant communication, mediated by root exudates. The study of flowering communication is expected to illuminate neglected aspects of plant reproductive interactions and to provide novel opportunities for controlling the timing of plant reproduction in agricultural settings.
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