An Analysis of the Effects of Temperature and Light Integral on the Vegetative Growth of Pansy cv. Universal Violet (Violaxwittrockiana Gams.) |
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Authors: | ADAMS S R; PEARSON S; HADLEY P |
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Institution: | The Department of Horticulture, School of Plant Sciences, The University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AS, U.K. |
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Abstract: | Pansies (Viola xwittrockiana Gams.) cv. Universal Violet weresown on five dates between Jul. and Dec. 1992 and placed insix temperature-controlled glasshouse compartments set to providemean temperatures between 6.5 and 30 °C. Shoot dry weightand leaf number were recorded. A model was constructed, to analysethe effects of light and temperature on dry matter accumulation,which assumed that relative growth rate (RGR) declined linearlywith thermal time accumulated from sowing, reflecting ontogeneticdrift. Furthermore, it assumed that RGR was a semi-ellipsoidfunction of temperature, rising to an optimum of 25.3 °Cand declining thereafter, and a positive linear function oflight integral. When fitted to data collected in this studythe model accounted for 94% of the variance in RGR. Independentvalidation using data from four further crops grown in glasshousecompartments at four different set point temperatures showedthat the model could also be used to predict plant dry weightaccurately (r 2=0.98). The rate of mainstem leaf productionwas also linearly related to both light integral and temperature. Pansy; Viola xwittrockiana ; temperature; light integral; dry weight; relative growth rate; leaf number |
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