The Cortical Chlorenchyma Collaboration Gradient Dominates the Shoot Economics Space in

Yang Yu, Huayong Zhang, Zhongyu Wang, Zhao Liu

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Latitudinal Adaptive Strategies ofBiology · 2026
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Yang YuResearch Center for Engineering Ecology and Nonlinear Science, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China.

Huayong ZhangResearch Center for Engineering Ecology and Nonlinear Science, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8898-8567

Zhongyu WangResearch Center for Engineering Ecology and Nonlinear Science, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1342-3024

Zhao LiuTheoretical Ecology and Engineering Ecology Research Group, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao 250100, China.

Funding

Discipline Construction Program of Huayong Zhang, Distinguished Professor of Shandong University, School of Life Sciences 61200082363001National Water Pollution Control and Treatment Science and Technology Major Project 2017ZX07101

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Abstract

Plant economics is based on carbon and nutrients rather than money. While leaf strategies aboveground are well characterized along an economic spectrum from "fast-growing and short-lived" to "slow and conservative," economic models defined by aboveground shoot strategies remain unclear. Here, we offer a comprehensive view of aboveground economics and show that collaboration between shoots and stem cortical chlorenchyma can break out of the one-dimensional economic spectrum, offering a full range of economic possibilities. Trait data from 1551 current-year shoots of a single species confirm the classical fast-slow "conservation" gradient but reveal that most variation is explained by an orthogonal "cooperation" gradient, ranging from self-reliant resource acquisition to outsourced nutrient synthesis via the stem cortical chlorenchyma. This expanded "shoot economics space" provides a solid foundation for predicting aboveground responses to environmental change.

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collaboration gradientcortical chlorenchymaeconomic spectrumenvironmental responsesshoots

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PMID40868957

DOI10.3390/life15081310

PMCPMC12387127

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