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Moving with climbing plants from Charles Darwin’s time into the 21st century
Abstract
We provide an overview of research on climbing plants from Charles Darwin to the present day. Following Darwin's interests, this review will focus on functional perspectives including attachment mechanisms and stem structure and function. We draw attention to a number of unsolved problems inviting future research. These include the mechanism for establishment of the twining habit, a quantitative description following the development of a tissue element through space and time, the chemistry of sticky exudates, the microstructure of xylem and the capacity for water storage, the vulnerability to embolism, and the mechanism for embolism repair. In conclusion we cite evidence that, in response to increasing CO 2 concentration, anthropic perturbation and/ or increasing forest fragmentation, lianas are increasing relative to tree species. In the 21st century, we are returning to the multiscale, multidisciplinary approach taken by Darwin to understand natural history.
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“In this way, flexible twiners can grow upward to capture more sunshine and other resources, without losing stability even under large deformation (Fig. 1D and movie S1).”
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“Twining plants, which are commonplace in nature, first use their flexible apical stem to find support by circumnutational movements and then adaptively form a spiral configuration depending on the size of the support to maintain stability (20).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Isnard, S., & Silk, W. K.
- Affiliations
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- University of California, Davis (US)
- Corresponding author
- Isnard, Sandrine
- Venue
- American Journal of Botany
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2009-07
- Volume
- 96
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1205-1221
- ISSN
- 0002-9122 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-2197
- OpenAlex
- W2047608445
- Cited by
- 331
- References
- 104
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 10.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Journal of Botany (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- e-Publications@Marquette (Marquette University) (submittedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-05-BDIV-0012)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Forestry › Tree Root and Stability Studies
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Keywords
- climbing plants, lianas, Charles Darwin, stem structure, water storage, xylem embolism, embolism repair, elevated CO2, forest fragmentation, human disturbance
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