Claim · model-written summary
The authors concluded that stimulating the apical meristem may prevent flowering more effectively than destroying foliage.
- Taxon
- sugarcanee0
- Treatment
- stimulating the apical meristeme0
- Outcome
- flowering can be preventede0
- Direction
- more effectivelye0
- Comparator
- destroying foliatee0
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Verbatim
e0“sugarcane flowering can be prevented more effectively by stimulating the apical meristem, at the critical period of flower initiation, than by destroying foliate essential for maximum growth and sugar production”
Title
Sugarcane Flower-Control Studies With Paraquat, Gibberellic Acid, and Sodium Meta-Silicate
Alex G. Alexander; R. Montalvo Zapata; Gene L. Spain; et al. The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico 1972. doi:10.46429/jaupr.v56i3.10826
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect GA alone reduced sugarcane flowering rates to 0.02 percent.
- Intervention effect Paraquat reduced flowering to about one-third of control levels.
- Intervention effect Si alone had no effect on flowering.
- Intervention effect Si reduced the flowering-control effectiveness of GA when combined.
- Intervention effect GA increased total green weight, stalk weight, and internode length.
- Intervention effect Paraquat decreased total green weight, stalk weight, and internode length.
- Intervention effect Si alone appeared to increase green and stalk weights, without statistical significance.
- Intervention effect Si reduced GA growth stimulation.
- Intervention effect Si lessened Paraquat growth suppression.
- Intervention effect GA increased sugar production.
- Intervention effect Paraquat decreased sugar production.
- Intervention effect Paraquat lessened the degree and duration of positive GA effects.
- Intervention effect Si alone had little effect on sugar production.
- Intervention effect Si buffered extremes in sugar production.
- Observation Early Paraquat leaf injury appeared more than compensated after about two months.
- Observation Tonnage losses from Paraquat foliar injury appeared permanent.
- Observation GA growth stimulation was followed by below-normal growth.
- Mechanism The later growth decline reduced the total growth increase achievable with GA.
- Recommendation The authors proposed delayed Si application after GA to lessen growth decline.