CONCLUSIONS
RESULTS
The aim of the investigation was to evaluate not only if the species E. microcorys had exhibited allelochemicals that would have prevented the germination of R. sativus seeds, but also to specifically find if there had been a parallel between the changing concentration of E. microcorys to the seed germination. The resulting data supported the stated hypothesis to a substantial extent.
The hypothesis was supported because when the concentration of concocted E. microcorys substance increased, the slower the seeds germinated. This was evident from compared trends of the total number of germinated seeds of five different E. microcorys concentrations noted from Tables 2 to 6 and shown visually on Table 1. From the qualitative data in Table 1, there was also an obvious decreasing gradient of germinated seeds identified from Controlled to 1g/mL through Day 1, 4 and 7. The six tables additionally showed that two to three trials within each different concentrated E. …show more content…
microcorys content were in 1g/mL than in all other concentrations, then there were more allelochemicals readily available in synergy which resulted in an increasing and inversely proportional trend between germination affected by allelopathic behaviour and the concentration of these allelochemicals. Although the germination was concentration dependent, after further research into this area of knowledge, allelopathy from foliage litter decomposition, similar to the technique tested, contributed little inhibitory effects (Chu, C., Mortimer, P. E., Wang, H., Wang, Y., Liu, X., & Yu, S., 2014). Therefore, a more practical process to obtain data would have been either to have used live root exudates or vaporised allelochemicals dispersed into environment. These processes would have been more typically utilised by common eucalyptus species which would have caused the seeds to have been less susceptible to germinate. Nonetheless, expected results were collated in this
RESULTS
The aim of the investigation was to evaluate not only if the species E. microcorys had exhibited allelochemicals that would have prevented the germination of R. sativus seeds, but also to specifically find if there had been a parallel between the changing concentration of E. microcorys to the seed germination. The resulting data supported the stated hypothesis to a substantial extent.
The hypothesis was supported because when the concentration of concocted E. microcorys substance increased, the slower the seeds germinated. This was evident from compared trends of the total number of germinated seeds of five different E. microcorys concentrations noted from Tables 2 to 6 and shown visually on Table 1. From the qualitative data in Table 1, there was also an obvious decreasing gradient of germinated seeds identified from Controlled to 1g/mL through Day 1, 4 and 7. The six tables additionally showed that two to three trials within each different concentrated E. …show more content…
microcorys content were in 1g/mL than in all other concentrations, then there were more allelochemicals readily available in synergy which resulted in an increasing and inversely proportional trend between germination affected by allelopathic behaviour and the concentration of these allelochemicals. Although the germination was concentration dependent, after further research into this area of knowledge, allelopathy from foliage litter decomposition, similar to the technique tested, contributed little inhibitory effects (Chu, C., Mortimer, P. E., Wang, H., Wang, Y., Liu, X., & Yu, S., 2014). Therefore, a more practical process to obtain data would have been either to have used live root exudates or vaporised allelochemicals dispersed into environment. These processes would have been more typically utilised by common eucalyptus species which would have caused the seeds to have been less susceptible to germinate. Nonetheless, expected results were collated in this