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These two experiments were kept weed-free by hand weeding, and every plant was labeled.<br />
Field management of the plants was performed i<strong>de</strong>ntically to normal OSR cultivation. Open<br />
pollination was permitted during the flowering period.<br />
The num ber of f lowers w as r ecor<strong>de</strong>d i n t he m onoculture t rial. F lowering da te, s eed<br />
number, seed weight and total dried aboveground biomass were measured at harvest for every<br />
plant in the two experiments. Thousand seeds weight (1000*seed weight/ seed number) was<br />
calculated. At harvest, the seeds of each plant type were sieved into three categories by seed<br />
diameter as <strong>de</strong>scribed above. The number and weight of every seed category were recor<strong>de</strong>d.<br />
The p ercentage o f s eed number f or ea ch s eed c ategory p er p lant w as calculated. T he s eed<br />
production pe r uni t bi omass ( Seed num ber/ biomass) w as c alculated a s r eproductive<br />
allocation.<br />
Statistic analysis<br />
A f our-way f ixed s plit-plot A NOVA m o<strong>de</strong>l ( Y~D* C + B + E ) for m onoculture e xperiment<br />
including plant <strong>de</strong>nsity as the main plot (D), seed category (C), block (B), and edge effect (E),<br />
and a five-way fixed split-plot ANOVA mo<strong>de</strong>l (Y~D* C* T+ B+ E) was employed (T, plant<br />
type ). All data were log transformed for the normality of the residuals. In the monoculture<br />
experiment, as edge effect was significant, the plants in the plot bor<strong>de</strong>r were omitted. In the<br />
multi-culture experiment, all plants in the plot bor<strong>de</strong>r and center were inclu<strong>de</strong>d because the<br />
absence of s ignificant edge e ffect. S imilarly, s ome non -significant i nteraction e ffects w ere<br />
inclu<strong>de</strong>d in the residual. The resulting four and three-way ANOVA, respectively, were use to<br />
compare t he d ifferences among t he four p lant t ypes was t ested for emergence rate, d ays t o<br />
flowering, biomass, seed number and weight, reproductive allocation, thousand seeds weight<br />
and the <strong>de</strong>scriptors of the three seed categories produced, using data of all seed-sized plants in<br />
both high and low <strong>de</strong>nsities. Tukey’s honestly significant difference (Tukey’s HSD) test was<br />
employed f or mu ltiple c omparison.. A ll s tatistic a nalysis w as c onducted in R s oftware<br />
(http://www.r-project.org/).<br />
Results<br />
Monoculture experiment<br />
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