The plant perceptron connects environment to development

TY - JOUR

T1 - The plant perceptron connects environment to development

AU - Scheres, Ben

AU - van der Putten, Wim H.

N1 - 6265, TE; Data archiving: no data, review

PY - 2017/3/16

Y1 - 2017/3/16

N2 - Plants cope with the environment in a variety of ways, and ecological analyses attempt to capture this through life-history strategies or trait-based categorization. These approaches are limited because they treat the trade-off mechanisms that underlie plant responses as a black box. Approaches that involve the molecular or physiological analysis of plant responses to the environment have elucidated intricate connections between developmental and environmental signals, but in only a few well-studied model species. By considering diversity in the plant response to the environment as the adaptation of an information-processing network, new directions can be found for the study of life-history strategies, trade-offs and evolution in plants.

AB - Plants cope with the environment in a variety of ways, and ecological analyses attempt to capture this through life-history strategies or trait-based categorization. These approaches are limited because they treat the trade-off mechanisms that underlie plant responses as a black box. Approaches that involve the molecular or physiological analysis of plant responses to the environment have elucidated intricate connections between developmental and environmental signals, but in only a few well-studied model species. By considering diversity in the plant response to the environment as the adaptation of an information-processing network, new directions can be found for the study of life-history strategies, trade-offs and evolution in plants.

KW - national

U2 - 10.1038/nature22010

DO - 10.1038/nature22010

M3 - Article

SN - 0028-0836

VL - 543

SP - 337

EP - 345

JO - Nature

JF - Nature

IS - 7645

ER -