ReviewPlant, cell & environment2021
Detect thy family: Mechanisms, ecology and agricultural aspects of kin recognition in plants.
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- Invasive plants have stronger root recognition capabilities than native plants.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Kinship Modulates Carbon Allocation and Phosphorus Acquisition in Chinese Fir-AMF Networks Under Neighbor P Limitation.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Integrated transcriptomic and proteomic analysis reveals inhibitory effects of naringenin application on soybean roots mainly by interfering with auxin and ROS concentrations.BMC plant biology · 2026Article
- Intercrop-mediated inducibility affects direct defenses and plant resistance but not indirect defenses in maize.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Advances in Plant Species Recognition Mediated by Root Exudates: A Review.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Mixing varieties mitigates early root competition in wheat under water and nutrient limitation.Journal of experimental botany · 2025Article
- Neighbor Relatedness Contributes to Improvement in Grain Yields in Rice Cultivar Mixtures.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A Meta-Analysis of Response Strategies and Interfering Factors of Kin Recognition in Plants.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Kin discrimination causes plastic responses in floral and clonal allocation.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Understanding the Influence of Secondary Metabolites in Plant Invasion Strategies: A Comprehensive Review.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Effects of kinship and integration between adjacent/non-adjacent ramets on the growth and feedback with soil biota in a clonal invader.Oecologia · 2024Article
- Co-Invasion of Congeneric Invasive Plants Adopts Different Strategies Depending on Their Origins.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Chemically Mediated Plant-Plant Interactions: Allelopathy and Allelobiosis.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Interspecific recognition based on cuticular hydrocarbons mediates reproduction control in aphids.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Indirect genetic effects are shaped by demographic history and ecology in Arabidopsis thaliana.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Article
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- Talking Different Languages: The Role of Plant-Plant Communication When an Invader Beats up a Strange Neighborhood.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Changes in the Amount and Distribution of Soil Nutrients and Neighbours Have Differential Impacts on Root and Shoot Architecture in Wheat (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Fifty shades of greenbeard: robust evolution of altruism based on similarity of complex phenotypes.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Bringing Fundamental Insights of Induced Resistance to Agricultural Management of Herbivore Pests.Journal of chemical ecology · 2023Review
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Abstract
The phenomenon that organisms can distinguish genetically related individuals from strangers (i.e., kin recognition) and exhibit more cooperative behaviours towards their relatives (i.e., positive kin discrimination) has been documented in a wide variety of organisms. However, its occurrence in plants has been considered only recently. Despite the concerns about some methodologies used to document kin recognition, there is sufficient evidence to state that it exists in plants. Effects of kin recognition go well beyond reducing resource competition between related plants and involve interactions with symbionts (e.g., mycorrhizal networks). Kin recognition thus likely has important implications for evolution of plant traits, diversity of plant populations, ecological networks and community structures. Moreover, as kin selection may result in less competitive traits and thus greater population performance, it holds potential promise for crop breeding. Exploration of these evo-ecological and agricultural implications requires adequate control and measurements of relatedness, sufficient replication at genotypic level and comprehensive measurements of performance/fitness effects of kin discrimination. The primary questions that need to be answered are: when, where and by how much positive kin discrimination improves population performance.
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