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Functional Traits Related to Seedling Performance in the Mediterranean Leguminous Shrub Retama Sphaerocarpa: Insights from a Provenance, Fertilization, and Rhizobial Inoculation Study

Villar-Salvador, P., Valladares, F., Dominguez-Lerena, S., and Ruiz-Diez, B. Environmental and Experimental Botany 64:145-154. 2008.

We studied functional traits related to survival and growth in seedlings of the Mediterranean leguminous shrub Retama sphaerocarpa (L) Boiss. Plants from five provenances were grown at two contrasting fertilization rates. In one of the provenances, low-fertilized plants were also inoculated with a Bradyrhizobium strain to assess the influence of nodulation on seedling performance. Seedlings were transplanted onto an abandoned cropland and their growth and survival rates were measured for two years. Additionally, the persistence of the inoculated strain in the field was tracked using genetic methods. Fertilization produced two phenotypes of contrasting performance.


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Author(s): Pedro Villar-Salvador, Fernando Valladares, Susana Domínguez-Lerena, Beatriz Ruiz-Díez, Mercedes Fernández-Pascual, Antonio Delgado, Juan Luis Peñuelas

Section: Diverse Species

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