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Quinoa showed the most consistent model fits, with several outcomes at R2 above 0.90.

Taxon: quinoaChenopodium quinoae2
Outcome: consistent fitse2
Value: R2>0.90e2
Qualifier: several outcomese2

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“with quinoa showing the most consistent fits (several outcomes R2>0.90)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 953–1024

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Assessing the Influence of Temperature and Precipitation on the Yield and Losses of Key Highland Crops in Ecuador

Luis Fernando Guerrero-Vásquez; María del Cisne Ortega-Cabrera; Nathalia Alexandra Chacón-Reino; et al. Agriculture 2025. doi:10.3390/agriculture15181980

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Nonlinear Weibull or gamma fits sometimes improved on linear regression but showed no consistent improvement.

Taxon: speciest0
Outcome: improvements in fite0
Qualifier: no consistent pattern of improvemente0
Comparator: simple linear regressionse0

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“several cases in which non-linear Weibull or gamma functions provided improvements in fit compared to simple linear regressions, there was no consistent pattern of improvement.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 4553–4729

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“In all species”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 4421–4435

Title

Effects of chronic ozone exposure and estimated flux on plant growth and conductance under field conditions

Wright, Elaine Frances cIRcle (University of British Columbia) 2009. doi:10.14288/1.0088872

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Shoot apical organization in all four species fits the tunica-corpus concept.

Taxon: SmilaxSmilaxt0
Organ / stage: Shoot apicale0
Outcome: consistent with the tunica-corpus concepte0

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“Shoot apical organization in all four species is consistent with the tunica-corpus concept.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 237–328

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“Smilax”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 25–31

Title

Developmental Studies in Smilax (Liliaceae). I. Organography and the Shoot Apex

Ben F. Martin; S. C. Tucker American Journal of Botany 1985. doi:10.2307/2443569

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Observation Three Smilax species have indeterminate growth.
Observation S. pumila has determinate growth.
Observation Three species have two tunica layers.
Observation S. laurifolia has three tunica layers, with a reported range of two to four.
Observation A primary thickening meristem was observed in S. laurifolia.
Observation Shoot tip abortion occurs in S. pumila.
Observation The four species share developmental similarities despite differences in habit, vigor and anatomy.
Association Subtle differences in apical ontogeny may be associated with major differences in growth habit.

Observationauthor interpretationoriginal resultbasis n/a

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The male teosinte central-spike hypothesis better fits morphology than the female-ear theory.

Taxon: MaizeZea mayse1
Outcome: more consistent with morphologye0

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“This alternative hypothesis is more consistent with morphology and explains the anomalous lack of significant genetic and biochemical differences between these taxa”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 273–437

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“Maize, the only cereal with unisexual inflorescences”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 439–491

Title

From Teosinte to Maize: The Catastrophic Sexual Transmutation

Hugh H. Iltis Science 1983. doi:10.1126/science.222.4626.886

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The authors conclude that Sheffield spoil colonization broadly fits the infection-pressure theory.

Taxon: spoil colonizationt0
Outcome: characteristics of spoil colonizatione0
Direction: broadly consistente0
Setting: Sheffield regione0

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“the characteristics of spoil colonization in the Sheffield region are broadly consistent with the ‘infection pressure’ theory of Salisbury”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1534–1672

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“The circumstances and characteristics of spoil colonization within a local flora”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 0–80

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The circumstances and characteristics of spoil colonization within a local flora

John Philip Grime Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 1986. doi:10.1098/rstb.1986.0078

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The Arctotis staticifolia protologue most closely fits Dimorphotheca nudicaulis var. graminifolia.

Taxon: Arctotis staticifoliae0
Outcome: most consistent with a narrow-leaved taxon of Dimorphotheca Vaill. ex Moench and specifically D. nudicaulis (L.) DC. var. graminifolia (L.) Harv.e0

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“The protologue for Arctotis staticifolia is most consistent with a narrow-leaved taxon of Dimorphotheca Vaill. ex Moench and specifically D. nudicaulis (L.) DC. var. graminifolia (L.) Harv.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 481–670

Title

Taxonomic reassessment and typification of species names in Arctotis L. (Asteraceae) proposed by Jean Louis Marie Poiret

Robert J. Mckenzie; Chiara Nepi Adansonia 2019. doi:10.5252/adansonia2019v41a14

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Temperate elements dominated the flora, consistent with warm temperate North China flora.

Outcome: temperate elementse0
Direction: dominancee0
Setting: North Chinae0

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“The dominance of temperate elements is obvious,it fits North China flora from warm temperate.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 658–751

Title

Plant Floristic Diversity of Laotudingzi in Liaoning

Lei Liu Xibei zhiwu xuebao 2013

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Observation Laotudingzi had 1 006 wild seed plant species and high floristic biodiversity.
Observation Angiosperm genera with one or few species were abundant, indicating some relict character.
Observation The species distribution types were diverse and complex.
Observation The flora was described as ancient.
Observation Endemic genera and species were not prominent.
Association The Shannon-Wiener floristic index differed from nine adjacent mountains.
Association The Simpson index did not differ from adjacent mountains.
Observation Lushan and Culaishan had high Shannon-Wiener indices.
Observation Baishilazi and Changbaishan had low Shannon-Wiener indices.
Association Floristic correlations among ten mountains were significant, with coefficients from 0.617 to 0.995.
Association Cluster analysis found greater similarity among Laotudingzi, Qianshan, and Fenghuangshan.
Observation The authors assigned Laotudingzi to the North China montane flora subarea.

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The oldest divergence estimate fits both the Madrean-Tethyan and North Atlantic land-bridge hypotheses.

Taxon: CercisCercist0
Outcome: consistent with both the Madrean-Tethyan hypothesise0
Qualifier: dispersion across a North Atlantic land bridge connecting Europe to North Americae0

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“The oldest of these values is consistent with both the Madrean-Tethyan hypothesis (>23 million years ago) and dispersion across a North Atlantic land bridge connecting Europe to North America (>13 million years ago)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1141–1356

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“Cercis”
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Title

Phylogeny and Biogeography of Cercis (Fabaceae): Evidence from Nuclear Ribosomal ITS and Chloroplast ndhF Sequence Data

Charles C. Davis; Peter W. Fritsch; Jianhua Li; et al. BioOne Complete (BioOne) 2002. doi:10.1043/0363-6445-27.2.289

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The UK and New Zealand sequences are consistent with accidental introduction of Leu to New Zealand with the psyllid.

Taxon: Scotch broome0
Interactor: Leue0pathogen
Second interactor: A. spartiophilaArytainilla spartiophilae0pest
Outcome: Leu arrived accidentally in NZe0
Qualifier: fits with a scenarioe0

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“The similarity of UK and NZ Leu sequences fits with a scenario where Leu arrived accidentally in NZ with the introduction of A. spartiophila for biological control of Scotch broom.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 3795–3975

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First report of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter europaeus’ in the United Kingdom

M. Tannières; S.V. Fowler; L. Manaargadoo‐Catin; et al. New Disease Reports 2020. doi:10.5197/j.2044-0588.2020.041.003

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Observation Five Scotch broom plants tested positive for liberibacter.
Observation A later sample of one Scotch broom plant tested positive.
Observation Across seven years, 12% of Scotch broom samples tested positive for Leu.
Observation A sequence from a psyllid was identical to New Zealand Leu but differed from Italian Leu by three substitutions.
Observation This is the first UK report of the bacterium in Scotch broom.

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Covariation between floral and whole-plant traits fits the accelerated life cycle hypothesis but not the correlated response to selection hypothesis

Taxon: Clarkia xantianaClarkia xantianat0
Outcome: covariation between floral and whole-plant traitse2
Qualifier: consistent with the accelerated life cycle hypothesis but not with the correlated response to selection hypothesise1
Setting: greenhouse experimente0

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“Clarkia xantiana (Onagraceae)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 55–84

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“We conducted a greenhouse experiment”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1188–1224

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“Our results are consistent with the accelerated life cycle hypothesis but not with the correlated response to selection hypothesis”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1433–1563

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“to examine covariation between floral and whole-plant traits within and among populations”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1295–1384

Title

Life history, floral development, and mating system in Clarkia xantiana (Onagraceae): do floral and whole‐plant rates of development evolve independently?

Susan J. Mazer; Horacio Paz; Michael D. Bell American Journal of Botany 2004. doi:10.3732/ajb.91.12.2041

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