New Phytologist, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: Jan. 8, 2025
Summary Stress often induces plant trait plasticity, and microbial communities also alter traits. Therefore, it is unclear how much plasticity results from direct responses to stress vs indirect due stress‐induced changes in soil communities. To test microbes community affect the ecology potentially evolution of I grew plants four environments (salt, herbicide, herbivory, no stress) with that had responded these same or sterile inoculant. Plants delayed flowering under only when inoculated live communities, this was maladaptive. However, ways accelerated across all environments. Microbes affected expression genetic variation for time specific leaf area, as well both traits, disrupted a positive correlation response herbicide herbivory stress, suggesting may pace evolution. Together, highlight an important role plastic suggest plasticity.
Language: Английский