Claim · model-written summary
Aluminium increased dry mass allocation to roots and stems.
- Taxon
- Melastoma malabathricum
Melastoma malabathricume1 - Treatment
- Ale0
- Outcome
- allocation to roots and stemse0
- Direction
- highere0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“higher allocation to roots and stems, for plants grown with Al”
e1“Melastoma malabathricum”
Title
Khairil Mahmud; David F R P Burslem AoB Plants 2020. doi:10.1093/aobpla/plaa049
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Aluminium raised seedling total dry mass relative to controls.
- Intervention effect Aluminium raised seedling relative growth rate of dry mass relative to controls.
- Intervention effect Growth declined with 5.0 mM aluminium addition.
- Association Aluminium induced a greater growth rate increase in the fast-growing than slow-growing population.
- Intervention effect Aluminium reduced dry mass allocation to leaves.
- Intervention effect Aluminium increased foliar P, K, and Mg concentrations.
- Intervention effect Aluminium increased foliar Ca concentration.
- Association A foliar nutrient concentration PCA axis correlated positively with seedling relative growth rates across populations.
- Mechanism The authors suggest aluminium accumulation optimizes elemental stoichiometry and growth rate.