期刊
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY
卷 47, 期 3, 页码 280-293出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10886-021-01249-y
关键词
Bark beetles; Climate change; Dendroctonus ponderosae; Diterpenes; Geographical variation; Monoterpenes; Non-structural carbohydrates; Pinus contorta; Secondary metabolites
资金
- NSERC-Discovery Award
- Alberta Conservation Association 'ACA Grants in Biodiversity Program'
- Government of Alberta 'Master's level Queen Elizabeth II-Graduate Scholarship'
The study revealed that elevation had a significant influence on terpenes and carbohydrates of lodgepole pine trees, while latitude had no impact. There was a positive correlation between starch and total terpenes and diterpenes in the elevation study, whereas no correlation was found in the latitude study. The results suggest that biotic and abiotic factors likely drive the patterns of primary and secondary metabolite profiles of lodgepole pine along geographical gradients.
Climate change has a large influence on plant functional and phenotypic traits including plant primary and secondary metabolites. One well-established approach to investigating the variation in plant metabolites involves studying plant populations along elevation and latitude gradients. We considered how two space-for-time climate change gradients (elevation and latitude) influence carbohydrate reserves (soluble sugars, starches) and secondary metabolites (monoterpenes, diterpene resin acids) of lodgepole pine trees in western Canada. We were particularly interested in the relationship of terpenes and carbohydrates with a wide range of tree, site, and climatic factors. We found that only elevation had a strong influence on the expression of both terpenes and carbohydrates of trees. Specifically, as elevation increased, concentrations of monoterpenes and diterpenes generally increased and soluble sugars (glucose, sucrose, total sugars) decreased. In contrast, latitude had no impact on either of terpenes or carbohydrates. Furthermore, we found a positive relationship between concentrations of starch and total terpenes and diterpenes in the elevation study; whereas neither starches nor sugars were correlated to terpenes in the latitude study. Similarly, both terpenes and carbohydrates had a much greater number of significant correlations to site characteristics such as slope, basal area index, and sand basal area, in the elevational than in the latitude study. Overall, these results support the conclusion that both biotic and abiotic factors likely drive the patterns of primary and secondary metabolite profiles of lodgepole pine along geographical gradients. Also, presence of a positive relationship between terpenes and starches suggests an interaction between primary ad secondary metabolites of lodgepole pine trees.
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