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Distribution Of Antiherbivory Compounds In Flourensia Cernua, Ed Frederickson, Richard Estell, James Darren, Dean Anderson
Distribution Of Antiherbivory Compounds In Flourensia Cernua, Ed Frederickson, Richard Estell, James Darren, Dean Anderson
Ed L. Frederickson
Flourensia cernua is serving as a shrub model to study the influence of terpenes on intake by livestock at this location. Two studies (n=20 plants per study) were conducted to examine within plant distribution of volatile compounds to improve sampling protocol. Leaves from 3 positions (outer canopy, subcanopy, and basal) were collected from 4 quadrants (based on ordinal direction) in Exp. 1. Leaves were removed from 2 leaders of current year's growth for each position in each quadrant. In Exp. 2, 10 leaders of current year's growth were collected from the outer canopy in each quadrant and 3 leaf age …