Pisum sativum has no competitive responses to neighbors: A case study in (non)reproducible plant biology.

ABSTRACT: Plant-plant competition is ubiquitous in nature. However, studying below ground behavior of roots has always posed certain difficulties. Pea (Pisum sativum L.) has become a common study species for questions about how plant roots respond to neighboring plant roots and barriers in soil. However, published results point in several different directions. This has sometimes been interpreted as pea having sophisticated context dependent responses that can change in complex ways depending on its surroundings, but it could also just point to small statistical power resulting in type I or II statistical errors. To explore this further, here, we combine the result of five new experiments with published results to examine 18 unique experiments from 10 different studies and 6 cultivars of pea f

SUBMITTER: Mobley ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9587407 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature