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Plants, 2023 Plant modularity-related traits are important ecological determinants of vegetation composition, dynamics, and resilience. While simple changes in plant biomass resulting from salt treatments are usually considered a sufficient indicator for resistance ...
Gederts Ievinsh
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BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Background There has always been controversy over whether clonal plants have lower genetic diversity than plants that reproduce sexually. These conflicts could be attributed to the fact that few studies have taken into account the mating system of ...
Rong Huang +3 more
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Ecological consequences of plant clonality [PDF]
Annals of Botany, 2014 Clonal plants are those that reproduce asexually by means of vegetative offspring that remain attached to the parent, at least until they establish. Clonal plant species are widespread, dominate a variety of habitats and probably play key roles in the maintenance of biodiversity, ecosystem function and biological invasion. For example, many of the most
Ming Dong, Fei-Hai Yu, Peter Alpert
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Biology, 2022 Ranunculus illyricus, a component of xerothermic grasslands, is a declining species and deserves active conservation treatments in many countries preceded by studies on the biology of its reproduction. So far, our knowledge of R.
Dawid Kocot +4 more
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Water Content of Plant Tissues: So Simple That Almost Forgotten?
Plants, 2023 The aim of the present review was to reconsider basic information about various functional aspects related to plant water content and provide evidence that the usefulness of measuring absolute water content in plant sciences is undervalued.
Gederts Ievinsh
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2016 Resource allocation to different functions is central in life-history theory. Plasticity of functional traits allows clonal plants to regulate their resource allocation to meet changing environments.
Xiu-Fang eXie +9 more
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Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, 2022 Introduction Propagule pressure (i.e., the number of propagules) has long been recognized to play an essential role in plant invasion. But it is not clear whether propagule pressure influences the invasion of exotic plants into native plant communities ...
Xuan-Shao Liu +7 more
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Comparative ecology of clonal plants [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 1996 Abstract Somatic embryogenesis is a phylogenetically ancient trait that allows sessile plants to grow in a modular fashion and to respond plastically to different environm ental cues. It facilitates damage repair and permits clonal growth, the capacity to produce potentially independent but genetically identical offspring.
Groenendael, J.M. van +3 more
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Clonal integration enhances the performance of a clonal plant species under soil alkalinity stress.
PLoS ONE, 2015 Clonal plants have been shown to successfully survive in stressful environments, including salinity stress, drought and depleted nutrients through clonal integration between original and subsequent ramets.
Wenjun Zhang +4 more
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Influences of clonality on plant sexual reproduction [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015 Flowering plants possess an unrivaled diversity of mechanisms for achieving sexual and asexual reproduction, often simultaneously. The commonest type of asexual reproduction is clonal growth (vegetative propagation) in which parental genotypes (genets) produce vegetative modules (ramets) that are capable of independent growth, reproduction, and often ...
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