Burial Depth and Stolon Internode Length Independently Affect Survival of Small Clonal Fragments

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 6; no. 9; p. e23942
• Main Authors: Dong, Bi-Cheng, Liu, Rui-Hua, Zhang, Qian, Li, Hong-Li, Zhang, Ming-Xiang, Lei, Guang-Chun, Yu, Fei-Hai
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 01.09.2011; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Agasicles hygrophila; Alternanthera philoxeroides; Amaranthaceae; Amaranthaceae - anatomy & histology; Amaranthaceae - growth & development; Amaranthaceae - physiology; Analysis of Variance; Biology; Biomass; Burial; Carbohydrates; Cloning; Data analysis; Disturbance; Fitness; Fragmentation; Fragments; Genetic diversity; Invasiveness; Physiology; Plant ecology; Plant Leaves - anatomy & histology; Plant Leaves - growth & development; Plant Leaves - physiology; Plant Roots - anatomy & histology; Plant Roots - growth & development; Plant Roots - physiology; Plant Shoots - anatomy & histology; Plant Shoots - growth & development; Plant Shoots - physiology; Plant Stems - anatomy & histology; Plant Stems - growth & development; Plant Stems - physiology; Plants (botany); Plants (organisms); Publishing; Regeneration; Reproduction; Soil; Soils; Survival; Time Factors; Trifolium repens; Beijing China; China

Disturbance can fragment plant clones into different sizes and unstabilize soils to different degrees, so that clonal fragments of different sizes can be buried in soils at different depths. As a short-term storage organ, solon internode may help fragmented clones of stoloniferous plants to withstan...