Not exact matches
However, it has also been suggested that species
characteristics are less
important as determinants of
plant establishment success than other factors such as seed availability or environmental
characteristics, like dense vegetation.
Scientists from the University of Bern now identified the most
important environmental and species
characteristics for
plants to colonize and establish in novel places.
Two more factors that complicate supplement quality: The vast differences between marker (
characteristic phytochemicals found in herbal
plants that represent a quality or standard) and active (phytochemicals in a herb that are
important to produce a given therapeutic effect) compounds.
It is complicated because «within a single species, leaves can have quite diverse shapes, while leaves from different species are sometimes quite similar, so one of the main technical challenges in using leaves to identify
plant species has been to find effective representations of their shape, which capture their most
important characteristics.»