Abstract
The results of monitoring the types of seed reproduction systems and 12-year experiment on self-pollination in Scots pine have been used to analyze the adaptive reaction norm of three seed-productivity traits: self-fertility coefficient, seed plumpness, and number of seeds per cone. The development of nonspecific and specific responses to stress has been followed in a gradient of years with early droughts (1991, 1995, 2001, 2007, 2012). The results show that the reduction of seed yield and the proportion of inbred progeny and progeny of drought-tolerant forms in annual seed production increase proportionally to the strength of climatic stress experienced by the population.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Agadzhanyan, A.M., On the problem of evolution of selfincompatibility in gymnosperms: Gene mutations, Bot. Zh., 1992, vol. 77, no. 1, pp. 19–32.
Chaves, M.M. and Olivera, M.M., Mechanisms underlying plant resilience to water deficits: Prospects for water-saving agriculture, J. Exp. Bot., 2004, vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 2365–2384.
De Nettancourt, D., Incompatibility in Angiosperms, vol. 13, Berlin: Springer, 1977.
Gierdych, M. and Oleksyn, J., Studies in genetic variation in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.). coordinated by IUFRO, Silvae Genet., 1992, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 133–143.
Glotov, N.V., Assessment of genetic heterogeneity of natural populations: Quantitative traits, Ekologiya, 1983, no. 1, pp. 3–10.
Kerzhentsev, A.S., Funktsional’naya ekologiya (Functional Ecology), Moscow: Nauka, 2006.
Kolomyts, E.G., Boreal’nyi ekoton i geograficheskaya zonal’nost' (Boreal Ecotone and Geographic Zonality), Moscow: Nauka, 2005.
Koski, V., Embryonic lethals of Picea abies and Pinus sylvestris, Commun. Inst. For. Fenn., 1971, vol. 75, no. 3, pp. 1–30.
Kotelova, N.V., Effects of cross-pollination and self-pollination on the quality of Scots pine seeds and seedlings, Nauch.-Tekhn. Inform., 1956, no. 23, pp. 1–74.
Kurolap, S.A., Nesterov, Yu.A., and Eprintsev, S.A., Typing territories of Voronezh oblast with respect to the level of technogenic impact on the environment, Vestn. Voronezh. Gos. Univ., Ser.: Geogr. Geoekol., 2010, no. 1, pp. 5–11.
Kuznetsova, N.F., Effect of climatic conditions on the expression of self-fertility in Scots pine, Russ. J. Ecol., 2009, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 368–373.
Kuznetsova, N.F., Sensitivity of Scots pine generative sphere to drought in Voronezh oblast, Lesovedenie, 2010, no. 6, pp. 58–65.
Kuznetsova, N.F., Self-fertility in Scots pine as system for regulating close relationships and the species survival in adverse environment, in Advances in Genetics Research, vol. 9, New York: Nova Science, 2012, pp. 83–106.
Kuznetsova, N.F. and Isakov, Yu.N., Dependence of the level of self-fertility in Scotch pine on yearly climatic conditions, Russ. J. Ecol., 1996, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 256–259.
Levitt, J., Responses of Plants to Environmental Stresses: Chilling, Freezing, and High Temperature Stress, vol. 1, New York: Academic, 1980.
Mashkina, O.S., Kuznetsova, N.F., Isakov, Yu.N., and Butorina, A.K., Self-fertility in Scots pine as a mechanism of resistance to chemical mutagens, Russ. J. Ecol., 2009, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 399–404.
McClintock, B., The significance of responses of the genome to challenge, Science, 1984, vol. 226, no. 4676, pp. 792–801.
Minin, A.A., Some aspect of interconnections between terrestrial ecosystems and changing climate, Usp. Sovrem. Biol., 2011, vol. 131, no. 4, pp. 407–415.
Pakhomova, V.M., Basic principles of the modern theory of stress and general adaptation syndrome in plants, Tsitologiya, 1995, nos. 1–2, pp. 66–91.
Rabotnov, T.A., Studies on cenotic populations of plants aimed at revealing the “life strategy” of plant species, Byul. Mosk. O-va. Ispyt. Prir., Otd. Biol., 1975, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 5–17.
Sazonov, B.I., Surovye zimy i zasukhi (Severe Winters and Droughts), Leningrad: Gidrometeoizdat, 1991.
Selye, H., Ocherki ob adaptatsionnom sindrome (Essays on Adaptation Syndrome), Moscow: Meditsina, 1960.
Shiyatov, S.G., Dinamika drevesnoi i kustarnikovoi rastitel’nosti v gorakh Polyarnogo Urala pod vliyaniem sovremennykh izmenenii klimata (Dynamics of Tree and Shrub Vegetation in the Polar Ural Mountains under the Effect of Recent Climate Change), Yekaterinburg: Inst. Ekol. Rast. Zhiv., Ural Otd. Ross. Akad. Nauk, 2009.
Shumnyi, V.K. and Markel’, A.L., Sovremennye kontseptsii evolyutsionnoi genetiki (Modern Concepts of Evolutionary Genetics), Novosibirsk: Inst. Tsitol. Genet. Sib. Otd. Ross. Akad. Nauk, 2000.
Shvarts, S.S., Ekologicheskie zakonomernosti evolyutsii (Ecological Patterns of Evolution), Moscow: Nauka, 1980.
Sukhodolets, V.V., The nature of adaptive evolutionary changes: Fitness and ecological potential, Russ. J. Genet., 1998, vol. 34, no. 12, pp. 1353–1358.
Timofeeff-Ressovsky, N.V., Yablokov, A.V., and Glotov, N.V., Ocherk ucheniya o populyatsiyakh (An Essay on the Population Theory), Moscow: Nauka, 1973.
Urmantsev, Yu.A. and Gudkov, N.L., The problem of specificity and nonspecificity of responses to harmful influences, Zh. Obshch. Biol., 1986, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 337–349.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Additional information
Original Russian Text © N.F. Kuznetsova, 2015, published in Ekologiya, 2015, No. 5, pp. 332–338.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Kuznetsova, N.F. Development of specific and nonspecific reponses to stress in Pinus sylvestris L. at population level in a gradient of drought years. Russ J Ecol 46, 405–410 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1067413615050136
Received:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1067413615050136