Effect of cutting back on Lotus species (batch 1).

Plants were grown, harvested and iodine-stained as described in the legend of Table 1 and in Materials and Methods. (A) Flowers and seed pods at the time of cutting back. Where there is no picture the species had not flowered at the time of cutting back. Note that L. arabicus, L. glinoides, L. uliginosus, L. corniculatus, L. tenuis (aka L. glaber) and L. parviflorus had flowered, but not set seeds. (B) Plants at the point of cutting back. (C) Plants 15 days after cutting back. Plant species names are color-coded according to their life form: annual species in blue, perennial species in green (classification details given in Table 1). (D) and (E) Root systems of Lotus species following decolourisation and iodine staining before cutting back (D) and 15 days after cutting back (E).