Claim · model-written summary
Coordination of leaf, root and whole plant processes determined growth maximizing traits.
- Taxon
- grass speciese1
- Outcome
- trait combination maximizing plant growthe0
- Qualifier
- coordination of leaf, root and whole plant processese0
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Verbatim
e0“the unique trait combination maximizing plant growth under a given environmental condition was determined by a coordination of leaf, root and whole plant processes that tended to co-limit the acquisition and use of carbon and of nitrogen”
e1“we investigated with 12 grass species”
Title
Vincent Maire; Nicolas Gross; David Hill; et al. PLoS ONE 2013. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0077372
Other claims from this paper (3)
- Method / resource Growth maximizing simulated trait values matched observed values across species and N supplies.
- Method / resource Predicted plastic responses to N addition agreed closely with observed trait responses.
- Observation Trait combinations outside adaptive corridors had inferior plant performance.