Review
Ecology
Meredith L. Biedrzycki, Harsh P. Bais
Summary: This article explores kin recognition in plants, including its impact on nutrient and resource allocation and its role in multispecies interactions, with a focus on the involvement of plant roots in these processes. Future research directions are also discussed.
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Remi Pelissier, Elsa Ballini, Coline Temple, Aurelie Ducasse, Michel Colombo, Julien Frouin, Xiaoping Qin, Huichuan Huang, David Jacques, Fort Florian, Freville Helene, Cyrille Violle, Jean-Benoit Morel
Summary: Mixing crop cultivars has been reconsidered as an effective method for controlling epidemics in the field, and the neighbor-modulated susceptibility (NMS) has emerged as an important factor. Experimental evidence shows that NMS does occur and can modify the susceptibility of crops, providing new possibilities to develop sustainable agricultural practices.
Review
Plant Sciences
Niels P. R. Anten, Bin J. W. Chen
Summary: The phenomenon of kin recognition in plants can have significant implications for the evolution of plant traits, diversity of plant populations, ecological networks, and community structures. Kin selection may result in improved population performance, offering potential promise for crop breeding.
PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Jing Ning, Zhou Li, Xingjiang Zhang, Junlong Wang, Dandan Chen, Qiong Liu, Yi Sun
Summary: This study developed unbiased machine learning tools to quantify the behavior of fruit flies and discovered that fruit flies can extract higher-order features from conspecifics during courtship and select appropriate actions. The findings lay the foundation for understanding the mechanism of conspecific recognition in fruit flies.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Cara D. Wheeldon, Maxime Hamon-Josse, Hannah Lund, Kaori Yoneyama, Tom Bennett
Summary: Recent studies have made significant progress in understanding how plants detect their neighbors through various mechanisms such as touch, reflected light, volatile organic chemicals, and root exudates. While the importance of root exudates in neighbor detection is still unclear, there is evidence that they can help plants distinguish between kin and non-kin neighbors. Additionally, strigolactones, as plant hormones, may play a crucial role in neighbor detection. These findings contribute to a better understanding of plant interactions and growth regulation.
Article
Forestry
Thomas E. Marler, Ragan M. Callaway
Summary: Mixtures of species in natural or agricultural systems can enhance the performance of individuals through facilitative mechanisms, such as root communication, or by ameliorating harmful effects of soil biota. In this study, using companion container cultures, it was found that heterospecific neighbors could experimentally increase root growth of the critically endangered Serianthes plants, while conspecific companions decreased root growth. These findings suggest the use of stranger roots as a passive method to improve post-transplant growth and survival of container-grown Serianthes plants.
Article
Plant Sciences
Travis G. Britton, Shane A. Richards, Melissa R. Gerwin, Rose E. Brinkhoff, Mark J. Hovenden
Summary: Neighbouring plants and climatic conditions interactively affect the growth of eucalypts. The competitive effects of neighbours on eucalypt growth are stronger under drier and hotter climate conditions. This finding has implications for future forest productivity under projected climate change.
JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Plant Sciences
Remi Pelissier, Cyrille Violle, Jean-Benoit Morel
Summary: Plant immunity is influenced by various abiotic factors, with the microbiome playing a crucial role as a biotic driver of plant resistance. Plants have been shown to adjust their resistance to pests and pathogens in response to neighboring plants. The exchange of molecules between plants can modulate plant immunity, and the allelopathy relationship with immunity warrants further investigation. Most cases of immunity modulation by neighbors have been positive, offering new perspectives for natural plant communities and diverse cultivated systems.
CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Scott C. Burgess, Jackson Powell, Marilia Bueno
Summary: Dispersal has significant implications for sessile organisms. Escaping competition and kinship are believed to be key factors leading to dispersal. In a marine bryozoan, researchers found that larvae neither preferred nor avoided conspecifics or kin during settlement. Manipulative experiments showed that settler density reduced maternal fitness when neighbors were siblings. Limited kinship was also observed among adult neighbors in the natural population.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Ailsa Strathie, Naomi Hughes-White, Sarah Laurence
Summary: Humans excel at recognizing familiar faces but struggle with unfamiliar ones. Research shows that familiarity with a sibling can improve kin detection and enhance accuracy in unfamiliar face matching, suggesting that pre-existing representations of familiar relations can benefit identity processing.
BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Monil Khera, Kevin Arbuckle, Joseph Hoffman, Jennifer L. Sanderson, Michael A. Cant, Hazel J. Nichols
Summary: Many species avoid inbreeding by recognizing familiar kin, but this rule does not apply to banded mongooses, which have communal breeding and caregiving systems that make it difficult to recognize kin based on familiarity. Despite frequent inbreeding, the use of alternative pre- or post-copulatory inbreeding avoidance mechanisms keeps inbreeding lower than expected if mates were randomly chosen.
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Kazuko Hase, Nobuyuki Kutsukake
Summary: Little is known about kin recognition systems and their plasticity in vertebrates, including well-studied tadpoles. This study evaluates the plasticity of kin and conspecific discrimination in tadpoles of the Japanese montane brown frog Rana ornativentris. The results suggest that prior associations modulate kin templates along tadpole ontogeny and the presence of non-kin enhances the learning of kin/non-kin. This study provides the first example that plasticity of kin recognition affects both kin-biased association and conspecific recognition in tadpoles.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
David J. Humphries, Martha J. Nelson-Flower, Matthew B. V. Bell, Fiona M. Finch, Amanda R. Ridley
Summary: This study examined vocal kin recognition in southern pied babblers and found that it is primarily based on familiarity rather than genetic relatedness, with limited discrimination abilities.
Article
Engineering, Civil
Jiayi Ma, Xinyu Ye, Huabing Zhou, Xiaoguang Mei, Fan Fan
Summary: In this paper, a novel appearance-based loop-closure detection (LCD) method is proposed, with a focus on real-time geometrical verification using the local relative orientation matching (LRO) algorithm. The method significantly improves the LCD performance and outperforms current state-of-the-art methods on six publicly available datasets.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
(2022)
Article
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Tamami Nakano, Takuto Yamamoto
Summary: Research reveals that self-resemblance affects trustworthiness ratings for same-sex people, but not for opposite-sex people.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
