Abstract
AbstractShoot morphological response to intra- and interspecific interactions between Dactylis glomerata L. and Veronica persica Poir. was examined in greenhouse experiments. We measured the shoot growth and morphology of one target plant for each species, surrounded by six conspecific (monoculture) or heterospecific (mixed culture) neighbours planted at different distances from the target plant. There were no significant effects of either species of neighbour or distance between plants on the above-ground dry mass of target plants, in both species. However, the mean stem length of D. glomerata targets was significantly greater in monoculture than in mixed culture, resulting in taller plants when they were set up with conspecific neighbours. V. persica targets showed a significant change in the coefficient of variation for the angles between terminal internodes and the soil surface, indicating the fact that this angle varied more in mixed culture than in monoculture. These findings suggest that the plasti...
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