In contrast, a decrease in the seeding depth from the 2.5 inch to 2.0 inch seeding depth at the moldboard-plowed clay loam site decreased yield an average ~9%.
Further decrease in the seeding density below 100 cell/cm showed a further increase in proliferation rate; however, there is a lower limit in the plating density in the clinical settings.
However, leaf removal appears to reduce the amount of carbon available for allocation to developing seeds in Phlox, Rosa, and Rhus, which causes a decrease in the overall seed mass produced by an individual plant.
Finally, four out of the six non-annotated metabolites (m/z 160.0657, 188.0699, 285.0811, and 365.1045) decreased significantly in the seeds of both autopolyploid lines.
Since the BnaA.FAE1 and BnaC.FAE1 were cloned and confirmed as the key factors controlling the synthesis of erucic acid in rapeseed, it was regarded that the pleiotropy of FAE1 was responsible for the decrease in seed oil content along with the reduction of seed erucic acid content in the modern cultivars.
Third, the traits that breeders have selected for in cultivated safflower, like seed color, high germination rates, seed weight and non-shattering seed heads, appear unlikely to provide much of a selective advantage in competitive situations in nature, as they decrease both the seed number and dispersal characteristics of the hybrids.
We found that GLSL13, 14, and 26 showed a significant decrease in the number of seeds per panicle (Table 2).
As the mechanisms maintaining dipterocarp diversity in logged forest areas may depend on the size of seed predators [26], [30], the decrease in large seed predator populations may affect their impact on dipterocarp survival.
Three mutations in independent lines were identified in the omega-6 fatty acid desaturase gene FAD2-1A; all three mutations resulted in missense amino acid mutations and one resulted in an altered seed fatty acid profile that led to an increase in oleic acid and a decrease in linoleic acid in the seed oil.
