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Relationships Among Rate of Leaf Area Development, Photosynthetic Rate, and Rate of Dry Matter Production among American Cultivated Cottons and Other Species 1
Author(s) -
Muramoto H.,
Hesketh J.,
ElSharkawy M.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
crop science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.76
H-Index - 147
eISSN - 1435-0653
pISSN - 0011-183X
DOI - 10.2135/cropsci1965.0011183x000500020020x
Subject(s) - library science , citation , biology , crop , production (economics) , agricultural experiment station , computer science , agriculture , ecology , macroeconomics , economics
APPLICATIONS of photosynthetic and growth charac-ix teristics of crop plants to plant breeding methods have been suggested by Watson (10), Milthorpe (6), Donald (1), and especially by Stoy (9) in a review paper on plant physiological aspects of breeding for yield. Milthorpe stressed the importance of rate of leaf area development as a factor affecting growth rate and minimized the importance of leaf photosynthetic rate. Stoy (9) and Murata (7) have suggested that leaf photosynthetic rate can be very important in determining growth rates. In the experiments reported here these factors were studied using the analytical techniques described by other workers (1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) in an effort to characterize and assess their relative importance in contributing to rapid growth of crop plants.