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ArticleCommunications biology2024

Induced responses contribute to rapid adaptation of Spirodela polyrhiza to herbivory by Lymnaea stagnalis.

Antonino Malacrinò, Laura Böttner, Sara Nouere, Meret Huber, Martin Schäfer, Shuqing Xu

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Article in Communications biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Age-Specific Physiological Adjustments ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Antonino Malacrinò *Department of Agriculture, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy. antonino.malacrino@unirc.it.ORCID 0000-0002-0811-1229
Laura Böttner *Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Sara NouereInstitute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Meret HuberInstitute for Plant Biology and Biotechnology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Martin SchäferInstitute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4580-6337
Shuqing XuInstitute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Münster, Münster, Germany. shuqing.xu@uni-mainz.de.ORCID 0000-0001-7010-4604
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz · DEInstitute for Biodiversity · DEUniversity of Münster · DE

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) 422213951Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) 435681637Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) 438887884Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Swiss National Science Foundation) P400PB_186770
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Herbivory-induced responses in plants are typical examples of phenotypic plasticity, and their evolution is thought to be driven by herbivory. However, direct evidence of the role of induced responses in plant adaptive evolution to herbivores is scarce. Here, we experimentally evolve populations of an aquatic plant (Spirodela polyrhiza, giant duckweed) and its native herbivore (Lymnaea stagnalis, freshwater snail), testing whether herbivory drives rapid adaptive evolution in plant populations using a combination of bioassays, pool-sequencing, metabolite analyses, and amplicon metagenomics. We show that snail herbivory drove rapid phenotypic changes, increased herbivory resistance, and altered genotype frequencies in the plant populations. Additional bioassays suggest that evolutionary changes of induced responses contributed to the rapid increase of plant resistance to herbivory. This study provides direct evidence that herbivory-induced responses in plants can be subjected to selection and have an adaptive role by increasing resistance to herbivores.

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AraceaeLymnaeaAdaptation, PhysiologicalAnimalsBiological AssayHerbivory

Identifiers

PMID38200287
PMCPMC10781955
OpenAlexW4390745209

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