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Tensile Strength Variations in Leaves of Weeping Lovegrass ( Eragrostis Curvula (Schrad.) Nees.) and Certain Other Grasses 1
Author(s) -
Kneebone William R.
Publication year - 1960
Publication title -
agronomy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1435-0645
pISSN - 0002-1962
DOI - 10.2134/agronj1960.00021962005200090016x
Subject(s) - agronomy , eragrostis , biology
Synopsis Significant leaf tensile‐strength differences were found among strains of weeping lovegrass and among clones of bermudagrass, sideoats grama, and sand bluestem. Wide within‐strain variations (leaf to leaf and plant to plant) made precise comparisons difficult. Reasons for this variation were investigated and procedures for increasing precisions of estimate are discussed. Principal source of nongenetic variations was age or growth stage of individual leaves tested.