BACKGROUND AND AIMS Despite concerns about the impact of rising sea levels and storm surge events on coastal ecosystems, there is remarkably little information on the response of terrestrial coastal plant species to seawater inundation. The aim of this study was to elucidate responses of a glycophyte (white clover, Trifolium repens) to short-duration soil flooding by seawater and recovery follo...

Regulation of branching within perennial prostrate clonal herbs differs from the annual orthotropic species, Arabidopsis and pea, as the dominant signal transported from roots is a branching promoter, not an inhibitor. Trifolium repens, an exemplar of such prostrate species, was used to investigate the interaction between roots and branch development. This study tests whether or not current kno...

The rhizosphere of Trifolium repens and Lolium perenne was divided into three fractions: the bulk soil; the soil adhering to the roots; and the washed roots (rhizoplane and endorhizosphere). After isolation and puri®cation of DNA from these fractions, 16S rDNA was ampli®ed by PCR and cloned to obtain a collection of 16S rRNA genes representative of the bacterial communities of these three fract...