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

Figure 4

In stem-nutrition experiment, average number of days until appearance of first flower bud in flowering ramets only with SEM error bars across (a) stem treatments (, and ) and (b) fertilization treatments (, and ) and average number of days seed heads ripened with SEM error bars across (c) stem treatments and (d) fertilization treatments (stem treatment: ; fertilization treatment: ; stem fertilization: ; covariate: ). Different letters indicate significant differences among treatments (Mann-Whitney for Kruskal-Wallis and Tukey’s for ANCOVA for stem treatments with Bonferroni correction to α = 0.017).

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