Harsh environmental conditions in arid ecosystems limit seedling recruitment to microhabitats under nurse structures, such as shrubs or rocks. These structures, however, do not necessarily afford the same benefits to plants because nurse rocks provide only physical nurse effects, whereas nurse plants can provide both physical and biological nurse effects. Nevertheless, if the nurse plant is a c...

1 The effects of density on the vital rates, growth form and population size structure of the invasive seaweed Sargassum muticum (Yendo) Fensholt were evaluated experimentally. 2 The initial difference in plant number between the highest and the lowest density (200 and 6400 plants m − 2 ) was considerably reduced by the end of the experiment. Surprisingly, this was mostly due to numbers increas...

Let AR denote the set of functions from the disk algebra having real Fourier coefficients. Generalizing a result of A. Quadrat we show that every unstabilizable multi-input multi-output plant is as close as we want to a stabilizable multi-input multi-output plant in the product topology.

this experiment was conducted in safi abad agricultural research center of dezful in order to study the effect of seed deterioration and plant density on germination, seedling establishment, yield and yield components of hull-less barley with in 2011- 2012. treatments included three levels of seed deterioration: (control, 72 and 96 hours) and five plant densities (100, 150, 200, 250 and 300 pla...

in order to study the effect of soil compaction on root and shoot growth of wheat plants (shahriar variety), a greenhouse pot experiment was conducted in guilan university. the study design was factorial with completely randomized in three replications. treatments included three compaction levels; (normal compaction, compaction of ten percent and twenty percent) and two type of soil texture (cl...

in order to investigate the effects of common lambsquarters (chenopodium album l.) competition on corn (zea mays l.) morphological and physiological characteristics, an experiment was conducted in 2005-2006 at the research station of agricultural faculty, ferdowsi university of mashhad, iran. the experimental design was split plot based on randomized complete block design (rcbd) with three repl...

in order to evaluate the effects of drought stress and plant density on yield, yield components and morphological characters of pinto bean (phaseolus vulgaris l.) c.o.s16 cultivar, a field experiment was conducted in split plot arrangement based on a randomized complete block design with three replications in research field of yasouj university during 2010. experimental treatments were pinto be...

To investigate the impact of manipulating stomatal density, a collection of Arabidopsis epidermal patterning factor (EPF) mutants with an approximately 16-fold range of stomatal densities (approx. 20-325% of that of control plants) were grown at three atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO(2)) concentrations (200, 450 and 1000 ppm), and 30 per cent or 70 per cent soil water content. A strong negative c...

Plant communities in the verges of major roadways (roadsides) are similar to those of abandoned farm fields undergoing succession (oldfields). However, roadsides are subject to distinctive stresses. Here, we look at local adaptation in Hesperis matronalis L. to salinity and manganese (Mn). Plants collected from three roadside and three oldfield populations were grown in a greenhouse under contr...