Seedlings ofEucalyptus maculataHook, grown in 20 cm pots were subject to three soil nutrient and three soil moisture regimes with all shoots above the lignotuber detached 76, 282 and 390 days after watering treatments began. Subsequently, all treatments were standardised (i.e. fertilised and maintained near field capacity) for 84 days, when the shoots were detached for a fourth time. Before standardisation, lignotuberous seedlings from the drier treatments grew poorly. However, after standardisation seedlings from the drier treatments grew significantly better than all other treatments.
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