Claim · model-written summary
Lightly lopped plants developed 62 percent more leaf area than unlopped plants.
- Taxon
- Alnus glutinosa
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Alnus glutinosae0 - Treatment
- lightlye2
- Outcome
- leaf areae2
- Direction
- moree2
- Value
- 62e2
- Comparator
- unlopped plantse2
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Verbatim
e0“studied in 3-year-old black alder (Alnus glutinosa L. Gaertn.) plants”
e2“The lightly and moderately lopped plants developed 62 and 57% more leaf area, respectively, than the unlopped plants, but total leaf area development was slower in the heavily lopped plants”
Title
K. A. Singh; F. B. Thompson Tree Physiology 1995. doi:10.1093/treephys/15.3.197
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Transpiration rates decreased within 24 h of lopping.
- Intervention effect Water potentials increased within 24 h of lopping.
- Intervention effect Lopping enhanced water-use efficiency during the first 30 days.
- Intervention effect Moderately lopped plants developed 57% more leaf area than unlopped plants.
- Intervention effect Total leaf area development was slower in heavily lopped plants.
- Intervention effect Total biomass of lightly lopped plants was equivalent to that of unlopped plants.
- Intervention effect Moderately and heavily lopped plants produced less biomass than unlopped plants.
- Intervention effect Nodule dry matter showed a net loss during the first 30 days after lopping.
- Intervention effect Nodule dry matter did not recover to control values during the study period.
- Intervention effect Immediately after lopping, more 14C-photosynthate was translocated to the roots of lopped plants than of unlopped plants.
- Intervention effect Translocation of 14C-photosynthate to the shoot increased with increasing lopping intensity at 50 days after lopping.
- Mechanism Regrowth after lopping was probably related to enhanced net assimilation rates, use of current photoassimilates and stored root carbohydrates.