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Record W4416443262 · doi:10.5376/be.2025.15.0013

Evolutionary Adaptation in Cactaceae Fruit Trees Photosynthetic Transition and Carbon Metabolism Regulation in Pitaya

2025· article· W4416443262 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
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Bibliographic record

VenueBiological Evidence · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicBotanical Research and Applications
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCrassulacean acid metabolismPhotosynthesisSugarAdaptation (eye)Photosynthetic efficiencyDrought toleranceWater-use efficiencyChloroplast

Abstract

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Pitaya ( Hylocereus  spp.) is a typical crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) plant in the Cactaceae family, which can effectively utilize water through a special photosynthetic pathway in arid environments. This study reviews the evolutionary mechanism of the conversion of the photosynthetic pathway of pitaya from C3 to CAM, and elaborates on its carbon metabolism regulation characteristics. The taxonomic differences of C3, intrinsic CAM and inducible CAM photosynthesis in Cactaceae plants, as well as the structural and physiological characteristics related to CAM evolution, are compared. The circadian expression characteristics of key enzyme genes of pitaya CAM photosynthesis, the role of transcription factors involved in regulation, and the regulatory mechanisms at the epigenetic and post-transcriptional levels are analyzed. The dynamics of the accumulation and conversion of carbonate assimilates (such as malic acid, sugar and starch) in pitaya during the diurnal cycle, as well as the role of vacuolar carbonate transport in carbon allocation, are discussed. The conservation and novelty of CAM pathway-related genes in Cactaceae plants are explored from the perspective of comparative genomics, and the differences in the genomes of pitaya and its C3 relatives are compared. Through the case of red-fleshed and white-fleshed pitaya varieties, this study analyzed the changes in CAM expression levels and metabolome under drought and high temperature stress, and looked forward to applying CAM characteristics to pitaya stress resistance breeding to improve crop water use efficiency and stress resistance, and promote the efficient use of pitaya in sustainable agricultural development.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.912
Threshold uncertainty score0.635

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.062
GPT teacher head0.292
Teacher spread0.230 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it