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Different Responses of Sexual and Asexual Reproduction of Arundinella hirta to Flooding

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The sexual and asexual reproductive features of the graminoid species Arundinella hirta growing at riversides of the Jialing River were analyzed. It was found that the total seed mass, seed number per plant, and sexual reproductive allocation of A. hirta decreased with decreasing bank elevation, and plants growing at the lowest elevations of banks subjected to intense flooding did not show sexual reproduction. The total plant biomass and the number of ramifications per plant increased with flooding intensity, which implies that, contrary to sexual reproduction, asexual reproduction of A. hirtawas enhanced by flooding.

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  1. School of Life Science, Southwest China University, Chongqing, 400715, China

    Zeng Bo & Fu Tianfei

  2. Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (MOE), Southwest China University, Chongqing, 400715, China

    Zeng Bo & Fu Tianfei

  3. Chongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Ecology and Resources Research in Three Gorges Reservoir Region, Southwest China University, Chongqing, 400715, China

    Zeng Bo & Fu Tianfei

  4. Research Center of Juelich, ICG III (Phytosphere), 52425, Juelich, Germany

    Ulrich Schurr & Arnd J. Kuhn

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Translated from the Journal of Southwest China Normal University (Natural Science), 2005, 30(2) (in Chinese)

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Zeng, B., Fu, T., Ulrich, S. et al. Different Responses of Sexual and Asexual Reproduction of Arundinella hirta to Flooding. Front. Biol. China 1, 46–49 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11515-005-0012-5

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