期刊
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY
卷 106, 期 6, 页码 894-900出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1294
关键词
arbuscular mycorrhizae; arbuscules; belowground species interactions; coils; hyphae; mutualism; polyploidy; Saxifragaceae; vesicles
资金
- NSF [DEB 1556568, 1655544]
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1655544] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Premise Polyploidy is known to cause physiological changes in plants which, in turn, can affect species interactions. One major physiological change predicted in polyploid plants is a heightened demand for growth-limiting nutrients. Consequently, we expect polyploidy to cause an increased reliance on the belowground mutualists that supply these growth-limiting nutrients. An important first step in investigating how polyploidy affects nutritional mutualisms in plants, then, is to characterize differences in the rate at which diploids and polyploids interact with belowground mutualists. Methods We used Heuchera cylindrica (Saxifragaceae) to test how polyploidy influences interactions with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). Here we first confirmed the presence of AMF in H. cylindrica, and then we used field-collected specimens to quantify and compare the presence of AMF structures while controlling for site-specific variation. Results Tetraploids had higher colonization rates as measured by total, hyphal, and nutritional-exchange structures; however, we found that diploids and tetraploids did not differ in vesicle colonization rates. Conclusions The results suggest that polyploidy may alter belowground nutritional mutualisms with plants. Because colonization by nutritional-exchange structures was higher in polyploids but vesicle colonization was not, polyploids might form stronger associations with their AMF partners. Controlled experiments are necessary to test whether this pattern is driven by the direct effect of polyploidy on AMF colonization.
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