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Plant diversity and overyielding: insights from belowground facilitation of intercropping in agriculture

(2014) Long Li et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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Functional Traits Differ between Cereal Crop Progenitors and Other Wild Grasses Gathered in the Neolithic Fertile Crescent

(2014) Jennifer Cunniff et al.   PLoS One

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Breeding Cereal Crops for Enhanced Weed Suppression: Optimizing Allelopathy and Competitive Ability

(2013) Margaret Worthington et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

The Roots of Cultivation in Southwestern Asia

(2013) G. Willcox   SCIENCE

Plant growth rates and seed size: a re-evaluation

(2012) Lindsay A. Turnbull et al.   ECOLOGY

Asymmetrical intraspecific competition in Echinochloa crus-galli is related to differences in the timing of seedling emergence and seedling vigour

(2011) Zdenka Martinkova et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Partitioning the Components of Relative Growth Rate: How Important Is Plant Size Variation?

(2010) Mark Rees et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Agricultural Origins: Centers and Noncenters; A Near Eastern Reappraisal

(2010) Shahal Abbo et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN PLANT SCIENCES

Seed-to-seed potential allelopathic effects between Ligularia virgaurea and native grass species of Tibetan alpine grasslands

(2010) Shiting Zhang et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Plant survival in relation to seed size along environmental gradients: a long-term study from semi-arid and Mediterranean annual plant communities

(2010) Johannes Metz et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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(2009) Karen E. Rose et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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(2009) Michael D. Purugganan et al.   NATURE

Ecophysiological traits in C3 and C4 grasses: a phylogenetically controlled screening experiment

(2009) Samuel H. Taylor et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Interaction Between Seed Dormancy-release Mechanism, Environment and Seed Bank Strategy for a Widely Distributed Perennial Legume, Parkinsonia aculeata (Caesalpinaceae)

(2008) Rieks D. Van Klinken et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

The relationship between seed mass and mean time to germination for 1037 tree species across five tropical forests

(2008) Natalia Norden et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Relating leaf photosynthetic rate to whole-plant growth: drought and shade effects on seedlings of fourQuercusspecies

(2008) José L. Quero et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY