Claim · model-written summary
Most species showed declining root to shoot ratios with increasing plant size.
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingValueQualifier
Verbatim
t0“six ephemeroid species”
e0“R/S of most species declined markedly with the plant body size”
Title
Ye Tao Acta Pratacultural Science 2014
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Individual biomass across the six species ranged from 0.628g to 21.144g.
- Observation Root to shoot mass ratios ranged from 0.355 to 3.066.
- Observation Leaf to total plant mass ratios ranged from 0.092 to 0.289.
- Observation Reproductive allocation ratios ranged from 0.111 to 0.649.
- Observation Reproductive and photosynthetic organ biomass ratios differed among species.
- Association Reproductive allocation ratio increased significantly with plant size.
- Observation Forty of 45 organ biomass species pairs had isometric relationships.
- Observation Aboveground to belowground biomass pairs had common scaling exponent 0.8764.
- Observation Leaf to belowground biomass pairs had common scaling exponent 0.8585.
- Observation The six species did not share one allometric relationship.