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Simulation of Growth and Yield in Cotton: III. Environmental Control of Morphogenesis 1
Author(s) -
Hesketh J. D.,
Baker D. N.,
Duncan W. G.
Publication year - 1972
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/cropsci1972.0011183x001200040011x
Subject(s) - biology , gossypium hirsutum , yield (engineering) , main stem , botany , morphogenesis , horticulture , plant growth , agronomy , gene , biochemistry , materials science , metallurgy
Time intervals between the appearance of leaves, floral buds and flowers at successive main stem and fruiting branch nodes of the cotton plant ( Gossypium hirsutum L.) were studied in eight temperature regimes at the Southeastern Environmental Plant Laboratories. The time interval between such events on the main stem or the first node of the fruiting branch, as affected by temperature, would seem to provide (with some qualifications) a simple physiological time‐base for modeling plant development. Our observations agreed fairly well with a physiological time concept attributed to Zaitzev in 1927.