ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2024
Bet-hedging and variability in plant development: seed germination and beyond.
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- Time-dependent bistability leads to critical slowing down during floral transition in Arabidopsis.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Regeneration Strategies in Seed Plants: A Continuum Shaping Survival.Ecology and evolution · 2026Review
- Genomic history and ecology of local adaptation in sky-islandbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Bet-hedging via Kelly betting in a limited environment leads to logistic growth in the Game of Fitness.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Gene body methylation buffers noise in gene expression in plants.Nucleic acids research · 2026Article
- Variable temperature processing by plasmodesmata regulates robust bud dormancy release.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Recruitment in variable environments: plasticity and bet hedging in the timing of seed germination in three closely related species.Annals of botany · 2026Article
- Establishment and maintenance of NRT2.1 inter-individual variability in plants.PLoS genetics · 2025Article
- Stochastic processes in development and disease.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Bet-hedging and variability in plant development: seed germination and beyond.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Getting it right: suppression and leveraging of noise in robust decision-making.Quantitative plant biology · 2024Review
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Abstract
When future conditions are unpredictable, bet-hedging strategies can be advantageous. This can involve isogenic individuals producing different phenotypes, under the same environmental conditions. Ecological studies provide evidence that variability in seed germination time has been selected for as a bet-hedging strategy. We demonstrate how variability in germination time found in Arabidopsis could function as a bet-hedging strategy in the face of unpredictable lethal stresses. Despite a body of knowledge on how the degree of seed dormancy versus germination is controlled, relatively little is known about how differences between isogenic seeds in a batch are generated. We review proposed mechanisms for generating variability in germination time and the current limitations and new possibilities for testing the model predictions. We then look beyond germination to the role of variability in seedling and adult plant growth and review new technologies for quantification of noisy gene expression dynamics. We discuss evidence for phenotypic variability in plant traits beyond germination being under genetic control and propose that variability in stress response gene expression could function as a bet-hedging strategy. We discuss open questions about how noisy gene expression could lead to between-plant heterogeneity in gene expression and phenotypes. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'Causes and consequences of stochastic processes in development and disease'.
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