Claim · model-written summary
X. orientale germinates and grows faster than the Old-World congener X. strumarium.
- Taxon
- Xanthium orientale
Xanthium orientalee0 - Outcome
- germinates and growse0
- Direction
- fastere0
- Comparator
- the Old-World congenere0
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Verbatim
e0“Xanthium orientale, although, germinates and grows faster than the Old-World congener”
Title
Eleonora Manzo; Chiara-Sophie Epifanio; Julius F. Pahl; et al. Scientific Reports 2025. doi:10.1038/s41598-025-17814-4
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect Growth and reproductive traits of X. strumarium were significantly lower when growing in proximity of X. orientale than in the control.
- Intervention effect Intraspecific competition also lowered growth and reproductive traits of X. strumarium relative to the control, but less than interspecific competition, and the effect remained significant.
- Intervention effect Watering Xanthium seedlings with exudate of X. orientale dry leaves negatively influenced germination and growth of the two species.
- Mechanism The authors believe interspecific competition from introduced X. orientale may be one cause of the decline of X. strumarium populations in Europe.