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The optimal balance between sexual and asexual reproduction in variable environments: a systematic review  

Yang, Yun Young (Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Program in Environmental Education, Seoul National University)
Kim, Jae Geun (Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Program in Environmental Education, Seoul National University)
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Journal of Ecology and Environment / v.40, no.2, 2016 , pp. 89-106 More about this Journal
Abstract
Many plant species have two modes of reproduction: sexual and asexual. Both modes of reproduction have often been viewed as adaptations to temporally or spatially variable environments. The plant should adjust partitioning to match changes in the estimated success of the two reproductive modes. Perennial plants showed that favorable habitats in soil nutrients or water content tend to promote clonal growth over sexual reproduction. In contrast, under high light-quantity conditions, clonal plants tend to allocate more biomass to sexual reproduction and less to clonal propagation. On the other hand, plants with chasmogamous and cleistogamous flowers provides with a greater tendency of the opportunity to ensure some seed set in any stressful environmental conditions such as low light, low soil nutrients, or low soil moisture. It is considered that vegetative reproduction has high competitive ability and is the major means to expand established population of perennial plants, whereas cleistogamous reproduction is insurance to persist in stressful sites due to being strong. Chasmogamous reproduction mainly enhances established and new population. Therefore, the functions of sexual and asexual propagules of perennial or annual plants differ from each other. These traits of propagule thus determine its success at a particular region of any environmental gradients. Eventually, if environmental resources or stress levels change in either space or time, species composition will probably also change. The reason based on which the plants differ with respect to favored reproduction modes in each environmental condition, may be involved in their specific realized niche.
Keywords
Benefit; Chasmogamy; Cleistogamy; Cost; Fitness; Realized niche; Secession; Trade-off;
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