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In our study, the functional niche hypervolume of woody plant communities across different climatic regions exhibited a decreasing trend from south to north.

massoniana seedlings showed an increasing trend, while the Pro content in the root showed no significant change.

The CFU of Trichoderma showed a positive trend (> 1 Log CFU g -1 ) in the rhizosphere of plants treated with microbial consortium compared to indigenous Trichoderma spp. of untreated plants.

equisetifolia trees (M1-M3), the activity of rhizosphere soil superoxide dismutase, catalase, peroxidase, and polyphenol oxidase showed a decreasing trend, from 16.94 to 8.03 U/mg, 5.51 to 2.63 U/mg, 6.59 to 3.10 U/mg and 7.38 to 4.48 U/mg, respectively.

The microbial abundance of the 10 genera was further analyzed in this study, and the results showed ( Figure 9A ) that a total of 98 microorganisms were from these 10 genera, of which 13 showed an increasing trend in abundance and 85 showed a decreasing trend as the number of continuously planted C. equisetifolia trees increased.

Furthermore, there was a highly significant negative correlation between coarse silt and fine silt.

Some of these candidates harbour DNA sequences revealing partially significant identity matches and cover with reported genes ( Figure 3B , Supplementary Data 4 ).

Most amino acids in OsSPL3.OEs showed an increasing trend compared with ZH11 ( Figure 6A , Supplementary Table S5 ).

In this study, the NPQ of rapeseed leaves showed an increasing trend, while other fluorescence parameters decreased with the increase of soil salinity.

Overall, the CWMs showed a trend that was in line with the acquisitive-conservative axis of resource uptake ( Reich, 2014 ; Díaz et al., 2016 ; de la Riva et al., 2016b ) at aboveground level.

Correlations among leaf functional traits LA and LT showed highly significant positive correlations with LV in the dry season ( r = 0.86 and 0.56).

Under drought stress, the expression of IbZFP genes showed a trend of upregulation and then downregulation, except for IbZFP43 .

equisetifolia changed significantly with the increase in the number of continuous planting, with 12 metabolites showing an increasing trend and 57 metabolites showing a decreasing trend ( Figure 2D ).

( Table 1 ), the rhizosphere soil pH did not change significantly, while OM, CEC, TN, TP, TK, AN, AP and AK contents showed a decreasing trend. 3.1.2.

The initial fluorescence (F0) showed a trend of decreasing and then increasing with the prolongation of saline stress in all groups, and the S group was always higher than the other groups.

Under normal conditions, the net photosynthetic rate showed an increasing pattern and start declining while all groups under saline stress showed a decreasing trend than the control group.

The soil Ca 2+ , electrical conductivity (EC), K + , organic matter, NH 4 -nitrogen and pH were significant or marginally significant for P. australis ( Table 3 ), while (marginally) significant factors were the content of total N, soil moisture and organic matter for P. hirsuta (α=0.1) ( Table 4 ).

In the context of this study, we observed a correlation that, although modest, bears a positive trend.

The results showed that the number and area of xylem vessels in the root mature zone showed a trend of first increasing and then decreasing with increasing ammonium proportion.

The number of unique gene families shows an increasing trend from group I (samples collected in June; 458), to group II (samples collected in July; 1,002), and group III (samples collected in August; 1,814), indicating an increasing diversity of metagenomic genes over time.

In contrast, just one significant SNP placed on chromosome 5 emerged for grain protein content ( Figure 4 ; Supplementary Table 2 ), and no significant association was detected for individual seed weight ( Supplementary Figure 6 ), although some SNPs approaching significance emerged for both of these traits. 3.5 Genomic regression models The GP models trained and validated on the germplasm collection displayed moderate to high predictive ability ( r Ab ) for all traits, mostly with slight differences between statistical models ( Table 4 ).

Under severe drought-stress conditions, the highest heritability was observed for lumen diameter, which showed an increasing trend with the intensity of drought-stress conditions beyond standard errors of estimates.

Expression of NADP-ME1 and NADP-ME2 showed an increasing trend with increased sucrose level and ABA level, respectively.

During the ripening process of tomato fruit, the glucose content showed an increasing trend ( Figure 3B ).

The ASVs and Shannon Indices of bacterial communities have marginally significant differences among the three major clades of Cornus ( Table 1 ; Supplementary Table 2 ).