By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Science Letter -- Research findings on Science - Natural Science are discussed in a new report. According to news reporting out of Charleston, South Carolina, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Pityopsis ruthii, Ruth’s Golden Aster, is an endangered herbaceous perennial that is endemic to small sections of the Hiwassee and Ocoee Rivers in the southeastern US. Our objective was to test the effect of bonded fiber matrix (BFM) on establishment and fecundity of Ruth’s Golden Aster in order to develop a robust restoration protocol.”
Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the Department of Agriculture, “We augmented existing populations with plants grown from achenes collected at each restoration location. We monitored plantings through 3 growing seasons by measuring stem number, stem height, leaf number, flowering incidence, and number of flower heads per plant in the spring and fall of each season. We assessed survival at 1 month post-planting. We randomly assigned plants at each location to a treatment (BFM vs. no BFM) for analysis as a randomized complete-block design. Germination rate of filled seeds, number of acclimated seedlings, and percent of seedlings planted after 14 days of acclimatization differed significantly across sites. Survival was significantly higher at 1 month, fall year 1, spring/fall year 2, and spring year 3 for the plants mulched with BFM compared to the control. However, there were no significant differences between treatment for stem number, stem height, leaf number, flowering incidence, or final 3-year survival. The methods developed herein represent a major step towards meeting the recovery-plan objective of developing the ability to establish Ruth’s Golden Aster on suitable habitat.”
According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Herein, we provide a framework for augmentation or restoration of critical populations threatened by extirpation.”
For more information on this research see: Restoration of the Endangered Ruth’s Golden Aster (Pityopsis ruthii). Southeastern Naturalist , 2018;17(1):19-31. Southeastern Naturalist can be contacted at: Humboldt Field Research Inst, PO Box 9, Steuben, ME 04680-0009, USA.
Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting P.A. Wadl, ARS, Dept. of Agriculture, US Vegetable Lab, Charleston, SC 29414, United States. Additional authors for this research include A.M. Saxton, G. Call and A.J. Dattilo.
The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1656/058.017.0101. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.
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CITATION: (2018-04-20), New Natural Science Data Have Been Reported by Researchers at Department of Agriculture [Restoration of the Endangered Ruth’s Golden Aster (Pityopsis ruthii)], Science Letter, 1174, ISSN: 1538-9162, BUTTER® ID: 015521669
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