Abstract: The vegetative modules such as roots, stems, leaves, and reproductive modules such as flowers, fruits and seeds of angiosperm, reflect the response and adaptation of plants to their abiotic environments. During the developmental processes of plants under various environmental stresses, these parts of plants are not independent, but have intrinsic connections both in structure and function. It means they may coevolve and operate with each other; correlations between these different organs can decide the life history strategy of plants, and further affect the plant species coexistence and biodiversity maintenance in a community or ecosystem. This paper review the research progress of coevolution of vegetative organs and reproductive organs of plants at community levels, and not only explores correlation of the macroscopic traits between plant organs, but also covers the research achievements in the field of microscope. The research scale is across species, across communities or ecosystems, even across regions. On the basis of morphological traits, this paper expands more traits in other disciplines, such as anatomy, cytology, physiology and genetics, etc. This paper also expounds some deficiencies in those relational studies and makes some prospects of future researches.

Key words: ¹⁵N, distribution, apple, ¹³C, stock-scion, utilization, nitrogen level