Supplementary Dataset for 'The “Trojan horse” strategy: seed fungal endophyte symbiosis helps to explain the invasion success of Poa annua in Maritime Antarctica' ...

• Main Author: Xxxxxx
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: figshare 2023
• Subjects: Plant biology not elsewhere classified; Biological adaptation; Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.22182904.v5; https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Supplementary_Dataset_for_The_Trojan_horse_strategy_seed_fungal_endophyte_symbiosis_helps_to_explain_the_invasion_success_of_Poa_annua_in_Maritime_Antarctica_/22182904/5

Supplementary tables 1-3 for the paper: The “Trojan horse” strategy: seed fungal endophyte symbiosis helps to explain the invasion success of Poa annua in Maritime Antarctica Although Poa annua L. (annual bluegrass) is presently the sole invasive vascular plant species to have successfully established in Maritime Antarctica, the reasons for its success in the region have yet to be established. Here, we determined whether the invasiveness of P. annua , and its competitiveness with the native Antarctic hairgrass Deschampsia antarctica , is influenced by symbioses formed with seed fungal endophytes, and whether plants derived from seeds from four global macro-regions differ in their performance (Maritime Antarctica, sub-Antarctica, South America and Europe) Endophyte frequency was measured in P. annua seeds collected from the four macro-regions. The germination, survival, biomass accumulation, flower production and competitiveness with D. antarctica of P. annua plants grown from uncolonised and colonised seeds ...