Picking battles wisely: plant behaviour under competition.

摘要: Plants are limited in their ability to choose neighbours, but they able orchestrate a wide spectrum of rational competitive behaviours that increase prospects prevail under various ecological settings. Through the perception plants anticipate probable interactions and modify maximize long-term gains. Specifically, can minimize encounters by avoiding neighbours; effects aggressively confronting or tolerate neighbours. However, adaptive values these non-mutually exclusive options expected depend strongly on plants' evolutionary background change dynamically according past development, relative sizes vigour. Additionally, magnitude responsiveness is be positively correlated with reliability environmental information regarding time left for further plastic modifications. Concurrent competition over external internal resources morphogenetic signals may enable some efficiency performance discriminately allocating more promising organs at expense failing less successful organs.