Alfalfa's Relationship With Oats

Competition is a prevalent factor in biology that plays an integral role in the diversity of a biomes community and natural selection for species. Plants are among the most diverse groups of organisms and it all started 475 Ma ago, when spore-producing plants were the first to emerge from the sea to begin the colonization of terrestrial ecosystems. Ever since late Silurian (425 Ma), land plants have been competing, evolving and diverging to give rise to new species, while nearly all plant species that existed up until 10kya have gone extinct and there is an estimated 400,000 plant species in present day (Chapman 2009).
All plants require water, sunlight, nutrients, and territory for their survival. Water and sunlight are required for photosynthesis, the process of creating energy for organismal activity. Water is necessary for transpiration, the process of exchanging water from inside the plant’s stomata with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Sunlight facilitates this process by being converted to …show more content…
Oat (Avena sativa) is an annual seeding grass. The use of fertilizer is to provide enough nutrients to support growth without there being limiting factor of nutrients. The purpose of this research project is to discover the interactions between alfalfa and oats by determining how they may affect each other. Plant interactions are important in understanding the diversity and composition of a community, which can have implications for utilization in agriculture to formulate the preferred conditions for each