Throwing away to survive: rhizome senescence as a strategy adopted by an herbaceous clonal plant to remain young forever
Our study is the first to investigate anatomical changes and abscission zone formation during rhizome ageing. Rhizomes thus undergo programmed death, like leaves and fruits. The drivers of programmed death in rhizomes require further studies that may contribute to our understanding of how rhizome longevity influences clonal plant performance and contributes to the plant and soil carbon cycle under varying environmental conditions.
Authors
- Mathieu Millan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0151-6055)
- Timothy Harris (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7984-7567)
- Alexandre Ferraro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3747-4467)
- Gabriela Santos da Silva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8756-9317)
- Jitka Klimešová
Institutions
- Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (BR)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (FR)
- Université de Montpellier (FR)
- Charles University (CZ)
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (GB)
- Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (FR)
- Institute of Botany of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SK)
- Institute of Botany (AZ)
- Istanbul 29 Mayis University (TR)
- Institut Agro Montpelier (FR)
- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (FR)
- Institute of Botany (AM)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Annals of Botany
- Published
- 2026-01-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcag004
- Primary Topic
- Plant Gene Expression Analysis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00