Greenbeards in plants?
2024
Montazeaud, Germain | Keller, Laurent | Department of Ecology and Evolution [UNIL, Lausanne] = Département d'écologie et évolution (DEE) ; Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne (UNIL) | Amélioration génétique et adaptation des plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales (UMR AGAP) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut Agro Montpellier ; Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Université de Montpellier (UM) | Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne (UNIL) | GM was funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement SOCLE (no. 101030712), and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) project ‘Selecting for cooperative crops to develop sustainable agriculture’ (SCOOP, grant no. ANR-19-CE32-0011). Open access funding provided by Universite de Lausanne. | ANR-19-CE32-0011,SCOOP,Sélectionner des plantes coopératives pour développer une agriculture plus durable(2019)
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Mostrar más [+] Menos [-]Inglés. Greenbeards are selfish genetic elements that make their bearers behave either altruistically towards individuals bearing similar greenbeard copies or harmfully towards individuals bearing different copies. They were first proposed by W. D. Hamilton over 50 yr ago, to illustrate that kin selection may operate at the level of single genes. Examples of greenbeards have now been reported in a wide range of taxa, but they remain undocumented in plants. In this paper, we discuss the theoretical likelihood of greenbeard existence in plants. We then question why the greenbeard concept has never been applied to plants and speculate on how hypothetical greenbeards could affect plant–plant interactions. Finally, we point to different research directions to improve our knowledge of greenbeards in plants.
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