Herbage Yield, Protein Content, and Carbohydrate Reserves in Gulf Cordgrass (Spartina Spartinae)

Nitrogen uptake by the shoots of smooth cordgrass Spartina alterniflora

The smooth cordgrass Spartina alterniflora is the foundation species in intertidal salt marshes of the North American Atlantic coast. Depending on its elevation within the marsh, S. alterniflora may be submerged for several hours per day. Previous ecosystem-level studies have demonstrated that S. alterniflora marshes are a net sink for nitrogen (N), and that removal of N from flooding tidal wat...

The carbohydrate constituents of herbage.

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Improving Management Practices for Invasive Cordgrass in the Pacific Northwest: A Case Study of Spartina anglica

Invasive species can radically alter the landscape and crowd out native plants and animals — a problem that costs the United States more than $100 billion each year. Washington state wrestles with dozens of aquatic invasive species including several cordgrasses in the genus Spartina. S. alterniflora was introduced into Willapa Bay about 100 years ago and has colonized over 6000 hectares of prev...

Monoamino monocarboxylic acid content of preparations of herbage protein.

Development and characterization of microsatellite loci for smooth cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora (Poaceae)1

UNLABELLED PREMISE OF THE STUDY Spartina alterniflora is one of the nine most notoriously invasive plants in China. Microsatellite markers were developed for this species to investigate its invasiveness and genetic diversity. • METHODS AND RESULTS Fifteen polymorphic and seven monomorphic simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers derived from expressed sequence tags (ESTs) were identified and s...