BACKGROUND Water influences various physiological and ecological processes of plants in different ecosystems, especially in desert ecosystems. The purpose of this study is to investigate the response of physiological and morphological acclimation of two shrubs Haloxylon ammodendron and Calligonum mongolicunl to variations in irrigation intervals. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The irrigation ...

Species competitive abilities and their distributions are closely related to functional traits such as biomass allocation patterns. When we consider how nutrient supply affects competitive abilities, quantifying the apparent and true plasticity in functional traits is important because the allometric relationships among traits are universal in plants. We propose to integrate the notion of allom...

present research was conducted with the aim of determination of significant effect of soil properties on natural regeneration of haloxylon aphyllum and correlation coefficient and linear relation between soil variables and natural regeneration of haloxylon aphyllum. firstly, geomorphologic units were prepared in the areas under cultivation of haloxylon aphyllum in ardestan. two cultivated lands...

Haloxylon ammodendron (C.A.Mey) Bunge is one of the important species arid desert vegetation in China, and it also an ideal material for studying plant stress resistance, which plays extremely role protecting ecosystems preventing land desertification. However, there are relatively few studies on regeneration fusiform, genetic transformation system has not been successfully reported, restricts ...

A new species of the genus Augeriflechtmannia Koçak and Kemal, 2008 – formerly Diplonychus Auger Flechtmann, 2003, namely haloxyloni sp. nov. is described illustrated based on females males collected from Haloxylon ammodendron (Amaranthaceae) in Iran. key to known world also provided.

The effect of mesoporous titanium dioxide nanoparticles on germination traits black saxaul seeds (Haloxylon aphyllum (Minkw.) Iljin) under drought stress