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Biomass of mulberry under planting modes of different gender combinations.

ZHU Juan1, LIU Gang2, XIAO Juan1, ZHU Shi-hui1, ZENG Zhen1, XU Xiao1, DONG Ting-fa1*#br#   

  1. (1Key Laboratory of Southwest China Wildlife Resources Conservation, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, China West Normal University, Nanchong 637009, Sichuan, China; 2Sericultural Research Institute, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanchong 637000, Sichuan, China).
  • Online:2016-09-10 Published:2016-09-10

Abstract:

Seedlings of Morus alba were grown in different sex cultivation modes (female-female, F-F; male-male, M-M; female-male, F-M) to evaluate their biomass and allocation. The results showed that the total biomass of M. alba in modes F-F and F-M were higher than in M-M, with increments of 31.6% and 39.2%, respectively. The leaf biomass of M-M was lower than that of F-F (-41.7%), while the root biomass of F-M was higher than that of F-F (+34.5%). Root biomass fraction and root to shoot ratio of F-M were the highest among the three cultivation modes. Our results indicated that the biomass of M. alba was related to the sexrelated cultivation mode, with the highest in F-M and the lowest in M-M among the three treatments.
 

Key words: individual size, reproductive characteristics, trade off., altitude, Saussurea przewalskii