Are triploid Butomus umbellatus plants more plastic to nutrient availability than diploid plants and does this make them more invasive?
Tag - Biomass allocation
William Salter
Thirsty? Learn from the drought escape strategy of an invasive radish plant!
Some plants can “escape” drought stress by speeding up their life cycles, minimising water loss and allocating more resources to roots when water is available. Over half of the world’s worst weeds are annuals and occur...
Juniper Kiss
The best way to grow strong upright rose stems is to bend them over
Bending rose stems dramatically increases photosynthesis.
Dale Maylea
Sink-source imbalance and down-regulation of photosynthesis
Sink-source imbalance could cause accumulation of total non-structural carbohydrates (TNC) and down-regulation of photosynthesis. Sugiura et al. investigate how sink-source imbalance causes photosynthetic down...
Alex Assiry
Elevated CO2 increases yield of aluminium-resistant wheat in acid soil
Soil acidity and climate change threaten future food production. Dong et al. investigate the effects of free-air CO2 enrichment (550 vs. 400 µmol mol-1) on plant growth and yield of hexaploid wheat lines differing in...
Effect of asymmetric warming on plant invasion
Although many studies have documented the effects of global warming on invasive plants, little is known about whether the effects of warming on plant invasion differ depending on the imposed change in different diurnal...
AoBPLANTS
Carbon stores for spring growth in evergreen vs. deciduous species
Deciduous species must rely on stored reserves in stems and roots for the initiation of new season springtime growth. So perhaps evergreen species that can photosynthesize year-round rely more on leaf photosynthate to...
Danielle Marias
Contrasting strategies to cope with drought conditions by two tropical forage C4 grasses
Drought severely limits forage productivity of C4 grasses across the tropics. Napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum) and Brachiaria hybrid cv. Mulato II are tropical C4 grasses used for livestock production due to their...
Light quality, volatile emissions and plant–plant interactions
Mimicking the proximity of neighbouring plants using a supplemental far-red light treatment on plants.
AJ Cann
Allometric partitioning and the relationship between above- and below-ground plant biomass
Plant size is the primary driver of the biomass allocation pattern for understorey plants in sub-tropical forests.
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Different responses of ephemerals and annuals to nitrogen
Biomass allocation patterns are important to ecosystem carbon cycles, and differ among species and in response to nutrient availability. Zhou et al. examine responses of ephemeral and annual plant species to different...
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