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. 2021 Jan 6;17:5. doi: 10.1186/s13007-020-00705-2

Table 1.

Effects of species and wind velocity treatments, and their interactions on plant traits

Plant traits Species (S) Wind treatments (T) S × T
F P F P F P
Morphology
 Height 43.16 < 0.001 20.06 < 0.001 1.31 0.268
 Projected crown area 146.12 < 0.001 32.33 < 0.001 3.09 0.012
 Stem base diameter 204.97 < 0.001 10.51 < 0.001 3.00 0.013
 Root length 71.48 < 0.001 10.35 < 0.001 1.59 0.167
 Overall bifurcation ratio 10.52 < 0.001 2.26 0.113 3.35 0.007
 Stepwise bifurcation ratio(1:2) 13.18 < 0.001 3.29 0.044 3.47 0.005
 Leaf length 359.76 < 0.001 4.81 0.012 1.03 0.413
 Leaf area 51.88 < 0.001 0.73 0.485 0.29 0.939
 Specific leaf area 248.26 < 0.001 0.08 0.921 0.30 0.937
Biomass and allocation
 Total biomass 171.96 < 0.001 9.60 < 0.001 0.35 0.908
 Shoot biomass 246.47 < 0.001 10.67 < 0.001 0.17 0.846
 Root biomass 19.01 < 0.001 2.63 0.080 0.77 0.599
 Root/shoot ratio 61.17 < 0.001 10.82 < 0.001 7.40 < 0.001
Mechanical properties
 Stem lignin content 11.71 < 0.001 0.38 0.687 0.72 0.637
 Stem cellulose content 5.41 0.002 1.67 0.196 7.90 < 0.001
 Lignin/cellulose ratio 11.16 < 0.001 0.7 0.500 3.11 0.010
 Second moment of area (I) 16.57 < 0.001 1.51 0.231 3.79 0.003
 Young’s modulus (E) 10.93 < 0.001 10.63 < 0.001 4.52 0.001
 Flexural stiffness (EI) 14.68 < 0.001 3.09 0.054 0.69 0.660

Italic type indicates significant differences at p < 0.05