Water availability limits tolerance of apical damage in the Chilean tarweed Madia sativa

Screening of Maize Genotypes for Drought Tolerance Related Trait Variability

“…Relatively, more biomass was allocated to the root than to the shoot, and plant allocated more resource to the belowground growth. The same pattern of partitioning has also been observed in other plants (Gonzales et al, 2008).…”

“…Relatively, more biomass was allocated to the root than to the shoot, and plant allocated more resource to the belowground growth. The same pattern of partitioning has also been observed in other plants (Gonzales et al, 2008). In response to evapotranspiration demands, shoots drive water uptake through a root system (Comas et al, 2013) and amount of water uptake is determined by root architecture, i.e., root angles, rooting depth, root diameter, number of root branches and length of root hairs (Lynch, 2013).…”

Biomass allocation to vegetative and reproductive organs of Chenopodium acuminatum Willd. under soil nutrient and water stress

“…Relatively, more biomass was allocated to the root than to the shoot, and plant allocated more resource to the belowground growth. The allocation also had been observed in other plants (Gonzáles et al 2008, Mony et al 2007.…”

“…Optimal allocation theory has been applied in many studies (McConnaughay and Coleman 1999). For example, plant allocated more biomass to leaf under low light intensity (Shipley and Meziane 2002), and more biomass to root under low soil nutrient or water (Gonzáles et al 2008, Mony et al 2007). However, the optimal allocation theory has also been questioned (Coleman et al 1994, Huang et al 2009b, Weiner 2004.…”

Cumulative herbivory outpaces compensation for early floral damage on a monocarpic perennial thistle

“…Additionally, we did not compare differences in seed quality among treatments, though studies have shown compensatory responses may affect seed weight or germination probability rather than seed quantity (Pilson and Decker 2002;Aikens and Roach 2015). Further studies are required to examine how environmental context influences fitness outcomes (i.e., Louda 1982;Gonzáles et al 2008;Banta et al 2010), and determines the effectiveness of the tolerance mechanisms detected.…”