Leaf mineral composition, the leaf ionome, reflects the complex interaction between a plant and its environment including local soil composition, an influential factor that can limit species distribution and plant productivity. Here we addressed within-species variation in plant-soil interactions and edaphic adaptation using Arabidopsis halleri, a well-suited model species as a facultative meta...

Introduced plants tend to experience less herbivory than natives, although herbivore loads vary widely. Herbivores may switch hosts onto an introduced plant for at least two reasons. They may recognize the novel plant as a potential host based on similarity of the plant's traits to the traits of one of its native hosts, a similarity that may or may not exhibit phylogenetic signal. Alternatively...

Two laboratory and greenhouse experiments were carried out to compare and evaluate the nutrition of Phaseolus vulgaris L. plant with foliar spray and root media. In laboratory, effect of four treatments; N- nutrition solution; Urban solid waste leachate (USWL); vermi-compost extract and control (distilled water) on germination and seeding growth of Phaseolus vulgaris L. was examined for 10 days...

influence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (amf) (glomus etunicatum, g. intraradices and glomus versiforme) and external phosphorus supplement (8 and 35 mg p kg-1 soil) on leaf p, zn, cu and fe nutrition of 4-month-old tea(camellia sinensis) was studied in an glass house pot experiment. the highest leaf p concentration (up to 59.43% increase) was found in g. versiforme inoculated seedlings gro...

the present study was conducted to determine the most appropriate tree species planted in the same ecological condition considering different variables at darabkola forest, mazandran province. for this purpose, the success of planted species (maple, walnut, oak, pine, ash and elm) was assessed according to ninecriteria (soil nitrogen, soil phosphorus, soil potassium, leaf nitrogen, leaf phospho...