Stone-like fruit is associated with reduced herbivory and enhanced reproductive success in an alpine legume (Phyllolobium heydei)

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Stone-like fruit is associated with reduced herbivory and enhanced reproductive success in an alpine legume (Phyllolobium heydei)

Feng Gao^a,b,c,d, Quan Yuan^a,b,c,d, Hong-Sen Hu^a,b,c,d, Hao-Ran Sun^a,b,c,d, Yang Dong^a,b,c,d

a. State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China;
b. Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China;
c. China National Botanical Garden, Beijing 100093, China;
d. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Received:2026-01-15 Revised:2026-04-22 Accepted:2026-04-24 Online:2026-05-12 Published:2026-07-25
Contact: Yang Dong,E-mail:Yang.Dong@ibcas.ac.cn
Supported by:
We are grateful to Prof. Lars ?stergaard (University of Oxford), Prof. Wei Wang (IB-CAS) and all members in the Dong Lab for critically reading the manuscript and providing comments before submission. We are also grateful to Prof. Si-Chong Chen (WBG-CAS) for her assistance in data analysis and critical comments on the manuscript. Additionally, we are indebted to Mr. Liguang Sun, Mr. Xinxin Zhu, Mr. Yanyi Liu, Xiaolei Ma and Dr. Bing Liu (IB-CAS) for generously providing photographs of Phyllolobium species and Sphaerophysa salsula. This work was supported by grants from the National Wild Plant Germplasm Resource Center, National Plant Specimen Resource Center (E0117G1001 to Y.D.) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (32470227 to Y.D).

Stone-like fruit is associated with reduced herbivory and enhanced reproductive success in an alpine legume (Phyllolobium heydei)

Feng Gao^a,b,c,d, Quan Yuan^a,b,c,d, Hong-Sen Hu^a,b,c,d, Hao-Ran Sun^a,b,c,d, Yang Dong^a,b,c,d

a. State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China;
b. Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China;
c. China National Botanical Garden, Beijing 100093, China;
d. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

通讯作者: Yang Dong,E-mail:Yang.Dong@ibcas.ac.cn
基金资助:
We are grateful to Prof. Lars ?stergaard (University of Oxford), Prof. Wei Wang (IB-CAS) and all members in the Dong Lab for critically reading the manuscript and providing comments before submission. We are also grateful to Prof. Si-Chong Chen (WBG-CAS) for her assistance in data analysis and critical comments on the manuscript. Additionally, we are indebted to Mr. Liguang Sun, Mr. Xinxin Zhu, Mr. Yanyi Liu, Xiaolei Ma and Dr. Bing Liu (IB-CAS) for generously providing photographs of Phyllolobium species and Sphaerophysa salsula. This work was supported by grants from the National Wild Plant Germplasm Resource Center, National Plant Specimen Resource Center (E0117G1001 to Y.D.) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (32470227 to Y.D).

Abstract

Key words: Fruits, Camouflage, Adaptive evolution, Phyllolobium heydei, Anti-predator defenses, Reproductive success

关键词: Fruits, Camouflage, Adaptive evolution, Phyllolobium heydei, Anti-predator defenses, Reproductive success

Feng Gao, Quan Yuan, Hong-Sen Hu, Hao-Ran Sun, Yang Dong. Stone-like fruit is associated with reduced herbivory and enhanced reproductive success in an alpine legume (Phyllolobium heydei)[J]. Plant Diversity, 2026, 48(04): 851-854.

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Stone-like fruit is associated with reduced herbivory and enhanced reproductive success in an alpine legume (Phyllolobium heydei)

Stone-like fruit is associated with reduced herbivory and enhanced reproductive success in an alpine legume (Phyllolobium heydei)

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