Claim · model-written summary
Grain removal increased downward assimilate velocity in the stem.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume1 - Treatment
- Removing grains from the heade0
- Outcome
- downward velocity in the steme0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Removing grains from the head reduced the velocity of the assimilates moving up the stem from the node and increased their downward velocity in the stem.”
e1“was followed in wheat, 15-20 days after anthesis.”
Title
The Velocity and Pattern of Assimilate Translocation in Wheat Plants During Grain Development
IF Wardlaw Australian Journal of Biological Sciences 1965. doi:10.1071/bi9650269
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation Assimilates moved through the top internode at 80 to 100 cm/hr.
- Observation Assimilates moved down the leaf sheath at about half the top-internode velocity.
- Intervention effect Grain removal reduced upward assimilate velocity in the stem.
- Intervention effect Grain removal left movement out of the leaf unaffected.
- Observation With full grain development, flag-leaf assimilates moved directly from the leaf node up the stem to the ear.