ArticleFrontiers in plant science2020
Why Are There so Many Plant Species That Transiently Flush Young Leaves Red in the Tropics?
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- Multimodal Plant-Animal Communication: Signaling Mechanisms, Coevolution, and Environmental Disruption.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Pink Cricket Club: Dramatic color change in a Neotropical leaf-masquerading katydid (Arota festae, Griffini, 1896).Ecology · 2026Article
- Diversity and ecological functions of anthocyanins.BMC plant biology · 2025Review
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- Wet and dry extremes reduce arthropod biomass independently of leaf phenology in the wet tropics.Global change biology · 2023Article
- Overwintering performance of bamboo leaves, and establishment of mathematical model for the distribution and introduction prediction of bamboos.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- Effects of leaf traits of tropical trees on the abundance and body mass of herbivorous arthropod communities.PloS one · 2023Article
- Metabolic Profiling and Antioxidant Analysis for the Juvenile Red Fading Leaves of Sweetpotato.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Melanisation in Boreal Lichens Is Accompanied by Variable Changes in Non-Photochemical Quenching.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The phenomenon of red and yellow autumn leaves: Hypotheses, agreements and disagreements.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2022Review
- Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Differences in Anthocyanin Accumulation in Cotton (Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Multiple MYB Activators and Repressors Collaboratively Regulate the Juvenile Red Fading in Leaves of Sweetpotato.Frontiers in plant science · 2020Article
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Delayed greening of young leaves is a ubiquitous and visually striking phenomenon in the tropics. Here, we investigated the potential ecological functions of red coloration patterns in young leaves. To detect any protective function of the red coloration on the young leaves, leaf damage by insect herbivores was recorded in the field. To determine capacity for chemical defense, the concentrations of tannins and anthocyanins were measured in both young and mature leaves. To test the hypothesis that anthocyanins function as photo-protective molecules, chlorophyll content, maximum photochemical efficiency of
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