Choose Wisely: Great Variation among Genotypes of Promising Paludiculture Crop Phragmites australis.

ABSTRACT: Measures mitigating the climate crisis, such as paludiculture, which is the agriculture on rewetted peatlands, are urgently needed. The cosmopolitan species Phragmites australis has the potential to be used in paludiculture worldwide but is known for its high intraspecific variation. This raises the questions of whether (i) P. australis genotypes differ even at a regional scale, making them differently well suited for paludiculture and (ii) P. australis performance can be predicted by linking the variation in genotypes to strategies in the plant economics spectrum. Five P. australis genotypes from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania were cultivated in two 10-month mesocosm experiments along gradients of water level and nutrient addition. We compared growth, morphology

SUBMITTER: Haldan K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10004764 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature