期刊
NEW PHYTOLOGIST
卷 205, 期 4, 页码 1503-1514出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13239
关键词
carbon allocation; cheater; mutualism; mycorrhizas; physio-evolutionary feedbacks; preferential allocation; symbiosis; theory
资金
- NSF [DEB-0049080, DEB-0919434, DEB-1050237]
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1050237] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The common occurrence of mutualistic interactions between plants and root symbionts is problematic. As the delivery of benefit to hosts involves costs to symbionts, symbionts that provide reduced benefit to their host are expected to increase in frequency. Plants have been shown to allocate preferentially to the most efficient symbiont and this preferential allocation may stabilize the mutualism. I construct a general model of the interactive feedbacks of host preferential allocation and the dynamics of root symbiont populations to evaluate the stability of nutritional mutualisms. Preferential allocation can promote the evolution of mutualism even when the cost to the symbiont is very large. Moreover, the physiological plasticity of preferential allocation likely leads to coexistence of beneficial and nonbeneficial symbionts. For arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, which facilitate plant uptake of phosphorus (P), the model predicts greater P transfer from these fungi per unit carbon invested with decreasing concentrations of soil P and with increasing concentrations of atmospheric CO2, patterns that have been observed in laboratory and field studies. This framework connects physiological plasticity in plant allocation to population processes that determine mutualism stability and, as such, represents a significant step in understanding the stability and environmental patterns in mutualism.
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