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Environmental Control and Monitoring in Small, Barrierless Growth Chambers 1
Author(s) -
Raguse C. A.,
Sumner D. C.
Publication year - 1971
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/cropsci1971.0011183x001100020048x
Subject(s) - biology , shoot , coolant , horticulture , root (linguistics) , botany , agronomy , physics , thermodynamics , linguistics , philosophy
Apparatus is described which permits independent control of ambient shoot and root temperature in small pots. Temperature gradients in the root medium were dependent on distance from edge or surface of the medium and increased with increasing spread between chamber and coolant temperatures.