Chinese Bulletin of Botany ›› 1999, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (04): 425-428.

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Effects of Soil Fertility on Gynostemma pentaphyllum Makino Population Behavior

HE Wei-Ming and ZHONG Zhang-Cheng   

  1. (Department of Life Sciences, Southwest China Normal University, Chongqing 400715)
  • Received:1998-10-07 Revised:1998-10-28 Online:1999-07-20 Published:1999-07-20
  • Contact: HE Wei-Ming

Abstract: The authors examined the response of G. pentaphyllum population behavior to soil fertility, using the semi-controlled experimental method. The results show that the increase of soil fertility can significantly increase the biomass allocation ratio of reproductive organs, and decrease that of non-reproductive organs, that the ratios of foliage and supporting parts decrease little with increasing soil fertility; that the increase of soil fertility does not significantly affect the morphological characters and mean relative growth rate of the populations; that most of the reproductive characters respond to the increase of soil fertility significantly. The conclusion is: different behaviors of the G. pentophyllum populations have different sensitivities to the change of soil fertility.