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SOME years ago I found that grass seedlings which were in competition with other grasses older than themselves were able to remain alive for several months, although growth, in the sense of increase in size, could not take place1. In these experiments the competition of the older plants operated by the removal of mineral nutrients from the soil surrounding the young seedlings, and by the exclusion from the latter of light. The tolerance of the latter was so pronounced that an inquiry was started into the general ability of grass seedlings to survive inimical conditions.
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Chippindale, Ann. Appl. Biol., 19, 221 (1932).
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CHIPPINDALE, H. Resistance to Inanition in Grass Seedlings. Nature 161, 65 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161065a0
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