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Age-specific allocation of glucosinolates within plant reproductive tissues

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The Optimal Defense Theory (ODT) predicts that the distribution of defenses within a plant should mirror the value and vulnerability of each tissue. Although the ODT has received much experimental support, very few studies have examined defense allocation among reproductive tissues and none assessed simultaneously how these defenses evolve with age. We quantified glucosinolates in perianths, anthers and pistils at different bud maturity stages (i.e., intermediate flower buds, old flower buds and flowers) of undamaged and mechanically damaged plants of an annual brassicaceous species. The youngest leaf was used as a reference for vegetative organs, since it is predicted to be one of the most defended. In line with ODT predictions, reproductive tissues were more defended than vegetative tissues constitutively, and within the former, pistils and anthers more defended than perianths. No change in the overall defense level was found between bud maturity stages, but a significant temporal shift was observed between pistils and anthers. Contrary to ODT predictions, mechanical damage did not induce systemic defenses in leaves but only in pistils. Our results show that defense allocation in plant reproductive tissues occurs at fine spatial and temporal scales, extending the application framework of the ODT. They also demonstrate interactions between space and time in fine-scale defense allocation.
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hal-04122669 , version 1 (12-06-2023)

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Laura Bellec, Anne Marie Cortesero, Nathalie Marnet, Sébastien Faure, Maxime R. Hervé. Age-specific allocation of glucosinolates within plant reproductive tissues. Plant Science, 2023, 331, pp.111690. ⟨10.1016/j.plantsci.2023.111690⟩. ⟨hal-04122669⟩
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