Claim · model-written summary
Clover individuals showed little home-neighborhood advantage.
- Outcome
- grow best in their "home" neighborhoodse0
TrifoliumNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“There was little indication that individuals of Trifolium grow best in their "home" neighborhoods”
Title
Conditioning effects by neighbors on the growth and form of Trifolium repens
Roy Turkington; Elena Klein; Jack Maze Canadian Journal of Botany 1994. doi:10.1139/b94-099
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Most variation was within genets, interpreted as plasticity.
- Association Grass neighbors mainly influenced clover size.
- Association Origins and genets mainly influenced clover shape.
- Mechanism Shape differences partly reflected unequal relative growth of parts.
- Mechanism Size differences reflected similar modification of all growth rates.
- Observation Authors infer size differences preceded shape differences evolutionarily.