Abstract
SUMMARY Soil moisture is an important factor in the distribution of Trifolium repens, Lotus corniculatus and Medicago lupulina. The first proved to be the most successful on moist soil, growing vigorously and forming numerous seeds. However, the plant was unable to avoid desiccation in droughted conditions where physiological processes such as root and shoot growth, and seed production were inhibited. In moist and dry soil, the seed production and vegetative yield of Lotus corniculatus were consistent. However, the slow‐growing seedlings and adult plants were relatively intolerant of severe drought. The annual, Medicago lupulina , displayed the greatest plasticity. On moist soils it formed substantial vegetative parts and prodigious numbers of seeds. In doughted conditions this species was the most tolerant of the three legumes at all stages of the life history, forming many seeds even when the vegetative yield was relatively low.
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Claims 5
Claim · model-written summary
Trifolium repens was unable to avoid desiccation in droughted conditions, and root and shoot growth and seed production were inhibited relative to moist soil.
- Taxon
- Trifolium repens
Trifolium repense0 - Treatment
- droughted conditionse2
- Outcome
- root and shoot growth, and seed productione2
- Direction
- inhibitede2
- Comparator
- moist soile1
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Verbatim
e0“Trifolium repens”
e1“The first proved to be the most successful on moist soil, growing vigorously and forming numerous seeds”
e2“However, the plant was unable to avoid desiccation in droughted conditions where physiological processes such as root and shoot growth, and seed production were inhibited”
Claim · model-written summary
Trifolium repens was the most successful of the three legumes on moist soil, growing vigorously and forming numerous seeds.
- Taxon
- Trifolium repensTrifolium repense0
- Treatment
- moist soile1
- Outcome
- growing vigorously and forming numerous seedse1
- Direction
- most successfule1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Trifolium repens”
e1“The first proved to be the most successful on moist soil, growing vigorously and forming numerous seeds”
Claim · model-written summary
Medicago lupulina displayed the greatest plasticity of the three legumes.
- Taxon
- Medicago lupulina
Medicago lupulinae4 - Outcome
- plasticitye4
- Direction
- greateste4
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e4“The annual, Medicago lupulina, displayed the greatest plasticity”
Claim · model-written summary
Medicago lupulina on moist soils formed substantial vegetative parts and prodigious numbers of seeds.
- Taxon
- Medicago lupulinaMedicago lupulinae4
- Treatment
- moist soilse5
- Outcome
- vegetative partse5
- Direction
- higherinferrede5
- Qualifier
- prodigious numbers of seedse5
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e4“The annual, Medicago lupulina, displayed the greatest plasticity”
e5“On moist soils it formed substantial vegetative parts and prodigious numbers of seeds”
Claim · model-written summary
Medicago lupulina was the most tolerant of the three legumes in droughted conditions at all stages of the life history, forming many seeds even when vegetative yield was low.
- Taxon
- Medicago lupulinaMedicago lupulinae4
- Treatment
- doughted conditionse6
- Outcome
- forming many seedse6
- Direction
- most tolerante6
- Qualifier
- at all stages of the life historye6
- Comparator
- the three legumese6
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e4“The annual, Medicago lupulina, displayed the greatest plasticity”
e6“In doughted conditions this species was the most tolerant of the three legumes at all stages of the life history, forming many seeds even when the vegetative yield was relatively low”
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