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Description
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Modeling growth traits of Opuntia robusta cladodes: length, width and thickness, as well as the surface of both sides of the cladodes, their volume,
and the growth rate of the surface and volume in relation to their initial values.
1. Growth dynamics of the real sizes of colonized (AMF) or noncolonized (control), male or female Opuntia robusta cladodes, and volume in relation to their initial values,
and the calculates area of both sides of the cladodes and their volume, as well as increase in area and volume with respect to their initial values.
Fig. 2, 3, 4 and 5. Dynamics of the increase in the width of colonized (AMF) or noncolonized (control) male and female cladodes of Opuntia robusta,
and the calculated area of both sides of the cladodes, volume as well as increase in area and volume in relation to their initial values,
assuming constant cladode length and thickness dynamics for each sexual form and experimental treatment, for different cladode widths.
Dynamics of the increase in cladode area with an increase in their width for colonized (AMF) and noncolonized (control) male and female cladodes of Opuntia robusta.
We put the same initial cladode widths for both male treatments as the initial width of the control cladodes:
that is, because the initial value of this trait in AMF males was larger than the values for the next three experimental days: it occurred due to appearance of new daughter cladodes during this period.
In (2.) we show the dynamics of control male cladode width and length using blue triangles, and the modeled dynamics usng purple squares.
We obtained all the means from the GLMM model:
We tested the effect of soil treatment (inoculated versus control) or the interaction between soil treatment and sexual form
on the dynamics of cladode traits (length, thickness and width measured every 30 days) using a general mixed effect linear model (GLMM), with Gaussian distribution.
The variable 'cladode length' was transformed with the ordered quartile (ORQ) method.
We considered the variables 'time' (days), 'soil substrate treatment' and the soil treatment / sexual form interaction
and ID of each cladode of each experimental group the random effects, since they vary per cladode individually.
The sexual form was considered a fixed effect, since it did not vary during the entire experiment.
The raw data is in another file. |
