Manner of Apical Meristem Destruction Affects Growth, Reproduction, and Survival of Sea Oxeye Daisy

Figure 2

In first bud break experiment, (a) average distance to first bud break in centimeters, as measured from the stem terminal to the node bearing the first lateral meristem to break bud, with SEM error bars () and (b) frequencies of first bud breaks occurring at different nodes (0 = stem terminal, 1 = first node below terminal, etc.) (, and ). In (a), data were square-root transformed to meet ANOVA assumptions but are presented untransformed for clarity. Different letters indicate significant differences among treatments (Tukey’s post hoc with Bonferroni correction to α = 0.017).

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