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Genetic Relatedness Can Alter The Strength Of Plant-Soil Feedbacks, Kelly M. Clark
Genetic Relatedness Can Alter The Strength Of Plant-Soil Feedbacks, Kelly M. Clark
Masters Theses
Intraspecific variation may play a key role in understanding the relationships between plants and their interactions with soil microbial communities. The effects that soil-microbes have on individuals can venerate variation across individuals in their responsiveness. I explored how relatedness alters plant-soil feedbacks in established Solidago altissima clones grown in a common garden. Seedlings of known parentage were inoculated with soils from the maternal, paternal, or unrelated clones and compared to autoclaved control inocula. I found that the soil inocula generated from S. altissima had an overall negative effect of seedling biomass. Furthermore, seedlings inoculated with maternal or paternal soils experienced …