Claim · model-written summary
The maize growth-rate curve had an initial fall and two subsidiary maxima on its descending limb.
- Outcome
- relative growth‐rate curvee0
- Direction
- initial falle0
- Qualifier
- two subsidiary maxima on the descending limbe0
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Verbatim
e0“On the broad form of the relative growth‐rate curve for maize are superposed three secondary features, an initial fall, and two subsidiary maxima on the descending limb”
Title
A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF PLANT GROWTH: PART I.
G. E. BRIGGS; FRANKLIN KIDD; CYRIL WEST Annals of Applied Biology 1920. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7348.1920.tb05107.x
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Relative growth rate varied markedly and systematically over the maize life cycle.
- Mechanism Before assimilatory organs offset respiratory dry-weight loss, maize growth was negative or nil.
- Observation Leaf area per unit dry weight rose to a maximum during phase B-C.
- Observation Leaf area per unit dry weight declined continuously through phase C-F.
- Association The first subsidiary growth maximum coincided with male flower appearance.
- Association The second subsidiary growth maximum coincided with female flower appearance.
- Association Growth minima preceded the maxima and coincided with earliest flower development.
- Mechanism Earlier environmental conditions controlled the timing of growth maxima.
- Association Leaf area per dry weight corresponded with relative growth rate over the season.
- Observation Maize seedling leaves did not perform normal assimilation until after emergence.