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Plant Breeding 1

Lantana camara and water hyacinth are examples of:

Lantana camara native to Central and South America introduced into India in 1809 as ornamental shrub for its multicolored corymbs and year-round flowering. Eichhornia similarly introduced as aquatic ornamental. Both escaped cultivation demonstrating characteristics listed by Baker as ideal weeds: rapid asexual proliferation via suckers and stolons, high seed output exceeding 10,000 per plant, dormancy, tolerance to drought and waterlogging, and production of allelopathic secondary metabolites lantadenes and phenolics inhibiting germination of neighboring crops. Dense thickets reduce pasture ca

Ref: FAO Invasive Weed Management Lantana; CABI Datasheet Eichhornia and Lantana; BSI Invasive alien plants India.

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Trade Off Grime Triangle

Example of stress-tolerator plant is:

“Mangrove” for example of stress-tolerator plant is. This relationship follows from the ecological mechanism represented by the terms in the item, not merely from an association between their names. Life-history traits reflect allocation among growth, maintenance, survival, and reproduction. Energy invested in many offspring cannot simultaneously be invested in large offspring, prolonged care, or future breeding, creating measurable trade-offs. The remaining alternatives—“Water hyacinth”, “Mango”, “Corn”—refer to different states, processes, or scales and therefore do not express the same caus

Ref: Plant Strategies and Vegetation Processes, Grime, 2nd Ed.

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