We use no fertilizers to produce lush growth. Plants can become dependent upon or "addicted" to regular doses of high nitrogen. This can make them hard to become established in average soils. We settle instead for a slower growth rate to sell you a much tougher plant....
For example, to be successful in a harsh desert environment, non-native plants would need to be ecologically similar to native plants to survive, possessing traits that protect them against high heat and water loss. By contrast, the ‘limiting similarity hypothesis’ (also known as ‘Darwin’s...
Plants in the warmer southern greenhouse had higher biomass, stomate density, stomatal conductance, leaf toughness, and lower aboveground percentage of N and total phenolics than in the northern greenhouse. Moreover, responses to the salinity gradient were generally much stronger in the southern than ...
LifecycleassessmentofnativeplantsandmarginallandsforbioenergyagricultureinKentuckyasamodelforsouth-easternUSA SETHDEBOLT*,J.ELLIOTTCAMPBELLw,RAYSMITHJR.z,MICHAELMONTROSS§andJOZSEFSTORK* *DepartmentofHorticulture,N-318AgriculturalScienceCenter,UniversityofKentucky,Lexington,KT40546-0091(USA)wCollegeofEngineeringUniver...
Long ago the kachinas were adopted into the clans along with various plants and animals during the migrations that took place after the Hopi emergence from the Underworld -- the Third World previously mentioned. Their presence had clearly been physical or tangible as opposed to supernatural or ethe...
Long ago the kachinas were adopted into the clans along with various plants and animals during the migrations that took place after the Hopi emergence from the Underworld -- the Third World previously mentioned. Their presence had clearly been physical or tangible as opposed to supernatural or ethe...
Summary Invasive plants, herbivores and site management history can play crucial roles in determining plant community composition. The net effects of invasive species on plant communities are well known, but we have a poor understanding of the relative contributions of direct competitive effects of ...
petiolata and West Virginia (WV) populations where A. petiolata is present. Larval survival to the 3rd instar was equally low in both populations when raised on A. petiolata. Mean oviposition preference on the two plants also did not differ between populations. However, we found a seasonal ...