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The same anthocyanins served four different ways: Insights into anthocyanin structure-function relationships from the wintergreen orchid, Tipularia discolor

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PLANT SCIENCE
卷 303, 期 -, 页码 -

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ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2020.110793

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Abaxial/adaxial anthocyanins; Acylated cyanidin; 3,7,3 '-Triglucoside; Camouflage; Chemotaxonomy; Leaf color evolution; Herbivory defense

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  1. High Point University Summer Undergraduate Research Program in the Sciences

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In this study, the histological and chemical structures of anthocyanins associated with different leaf color patterns in the terrestrial orchid Tipularia discolor were characterized, revealing that different colors in leaves were a result of the anthocyanins being located in different anatomical positions. This highlights the importance of both phylogenetic inertia and natural selection in determining anthocyanin chemical structure and anatomical location in plants.
Over 500 unique anthocyanins have been described to date, which vary in color, antioxidant, light-attenuating, and antimicrobial properties. Identification of anthocyanin chemical structure may therefore serve as an important clue to their in situ function in plants. We characterized the histological and chemical structures of anthocyanins associated with diverse leaf color patterns in the terrestrial orchid, Tipularia discolor, as a step towards understanding their ultimate function. Tipularia discolor produces a single wintergreen leaf in autumn, which is drab brown in color during expansion. Upper (adaxial) surfaces of fully-expanded leaves may be green, purple-spotted, or solid purple, while lower (abaxial) surfaces are bright magenta. Our results showed that the same three cyanidin 3,7,3'-triglucosides, in similar concentrations and proportions, accounted for coloration in each of these cases, and that different colors result from differences in histological location of anthocyanins (i.e. abaxial/adaxial epidermis, mesophyll). Anthocyanins with 3,7,3' linkage positions are rare in plants, occurring only within the orchid subfamily Epidendroideae, to which Tipularia belongs. These results are important to the discussion of anthocyanin structure-function because they serve as a reminder that 1) plants may employ the same anthocyanins in different anatomical locations to achieve a broad range of colors (and potentially adaptive functions), and 2) anthocyanin chemical structure and anatomical location are influenced by phylogenetic inertia, as well as natural selection.

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