Elemental concentrations and growth of wild-type and cultivated pasture species

The objective of the experiment that generated this dataset was to determine how pasture species (grasses, legumes and forbs) differ in their macro- and micronutrients concentrations and growth traits. Cultivated and wild-type varieties of species were grown as it was hypothesised that breeding of cultivated varieties that respond well to inorganic NPK fertilizers may have resulted in plants that have fewer traits that enable them to acquire other macro- and micronutrients from soil. Data includes: • Plant yield • Macro- and micronutrient concentrations (and some potentially toxic elements): Al, As, Ca, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, I, K, Mg, Mn, Mo, Na, Mi, P, Pb, S, Se, Ti, and Zn. Note that nitrogen was not measured. • Plant traits: leaf mass, root mass, aboveground dry weight, leaf area. • Growing medium total and extractable element concentrations, plus pH and cation exchange capacity