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The effects of water control on the survival and growth of Alternanthera philoxeroides in the vegetative reproduction and seedling stages

Alternanthera philoxeroides (Martius) is an infamous invasive alien plant that is widely distributed in aquatic and terrestrial habitats. To investigate the vegetative reproduction, growth, survival strategy, and the function of leaves in fragment of A. philoxeroides under different water conditions...

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Autores principales: Peng, Xuemei, Yang, Yunfei, Yan, Xiumin, Li, Haiyan
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8245590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34193895
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92674-2
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author Peng, Xuemei
Yang, Yunfei
Yan, Xiumin
Li, Haiyan
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Yang, Yunfei
Yan, Xiumin
Li, Haiyan
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description Alternanthera philoxeroides (Martius) is an infamous invasive alien plant that is widely distributed in aquatic and terrestrial habitats. To investigate the vegetative reproduction, growth, survival strategy, and the function of leaves in fragment of A. philoxeroides under different water conditions, two water control experiments were conducted with different leaf treatments: (1) water control with stolon fragments, and (2) water control with plants. The water control was subjected to five levels: I 30% soil water content, II 70% soil water content, III 97% soil water content, IV water depth of 5 cm, and V water depth of 10 cm in combination with the two leaf treatments, fragments with two leaves and fragments without leaves. Based on the results, A. philoxeroides produced a significantly higher stem length, node number, leaf number, stem biomass, leaf biomass, and total biomass in the 97% soil water content and in treatments with leaves. Additionally, the stem mass ratio increased and the root mass ratio decreased with the increase of the water content. In Exp. 1, the survival rate was the highest in the 97% water content and was 0 in the 30% water content. Therefore, the leaves of stolon fragments contribute to the vegetative reproduction and growth of A. philoxeroides. In response to different water conditions, A. philoxeroides adopts different strategies according to the resource reserves by itself, which are conducive to its survival and widespread occurrence.
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spelling pubmed-82455902021-07-06 The effects of water control on the survival and growth of Alternanthera philoxeroides in the vegetative reproduction and seedling stages Peng, Xuemei Yang, Yunfei Yan, Xiumin Li, Haiyan Sci Rep Article Alternanthera philoxeroides (Martius) is an infamous invasive alien plant that is widely distributed in aquatic and terrestrial habitats. To investigate the vegetative reproduction, growth, survival strategy, and the function of leaves in fragment of A. philoxeroides under different water conditions, two water control experiments were conducted with different leaf treatments: (1) water control with stolon fragments, and (2) water control with plants. The water control was subjected to five levels: I 30% soil water content, II 70% soil water content, III 97% soil water content, IV water depth of 5 cm, and V water depth of 10 cm in combination with the two leaf treatments, fragments with two leaves and fragments without leaves. Based on the results, A. philoxeroides produced a significantly higher stem length, node number, leaf number, stem biomass, leaf biomass, and total biomass in the 97% soil water content and in treatments with leaves. Additionally, the stem mass ratio increased and the root mass ratio decreased with the increase of the water content. In Exp. 1, the survival rate was the highest in the 97% water content and was 0 in the 30% water content. Therefore, the leaves of stolon fragments contribute to the vegetative reproduction and growth of A. philoxeroides. In response to different water conditions, A. philoxeroides adopts different strategies according to the resource reserves by itself, which are conducive to its survival and widespread occurrence. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8245590/ /pubmed/34193895 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92674-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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title The effects of water control on the survival and growth of Alternanthera philoxeroides in the vegetative reproduction and seedling stages
title_full The effects of water control on the survival and growth of Alternanthera philoxeroides in the vegetative reproduction and seedling stages
title_fullStr The effects of water control on the survival and growth of Alternanthera philoxeroides in the vegetative reproduction and seedling stages
title_full_unstemmed The effects of water control on the survival and growth of Alternanthera philoxeroides in the vegetative reproduction and seedling stages
title_short The effects of water control on the survival and growth of Alternanthera philoxeroides in the vegetative reproduction and seedling stages
title_sort effects of water control on the survival and growth of alternanthera philoxeroides in the vegetative reproduction and seedling stages
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8245590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34193895
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92674-2
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