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- Title
NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS OF THE EDAPHIC ECOTYPES IN <em>MELILOTUS ALBA</em> MEDIC. III. INTERFERENCE BETWEEN THE CALCAREOUS AND ACIDIC POPULATIONS IN THE TWO SOIL TYPES.
- Authors
Ramakrishnan, P. S.
- Abstract
The acidic and calcareous populations of <em>Melilotus alba</em> behave differently when grown in competition than when grown in isolation from each other. Thus, the acidic population which did well in both calcareous and acidic media in competition-free cultures, showed good growth yield in acidic soils only when in competition with the calcareous population. Further, the differences observed between the two populations in competition-free experiments became more pronounced when grown mixed. The time of introduction of either of the two populations into the mixture affects the final dry weight yield of the shoot, depending upon the soil type. In mixed cultures of the two populations, the calcareous population grown in an acidic soil and the acidic population grown in a calcareous soil responded by mortality of individuals, especially when the second population in each case was introduced earlier into the mixture.
- Subjects
WHITE sweet clover; PLANT-soil relationships; ACID soils; CALCAREOUS soils; SWEET clover; PLANT growth
- Publication
New Phytologist, 1970, Vol 69, Issue 1, p81
- ISSN
0028-646X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1469-8137.1970.tb04052.x