Claim · model-written summary
Starch and dextrin reserves were rapidly depleted in sprayed flower buds and roots.
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Verbatim
e0“Carbohydrate reserves (starch and dextrin) were rapidly depleted in the flower buds, and also in the roots, of the sprayed plants”
Title
John W. Mitchell; James W. Brown Botanical Gazette 1945. doi:10.1086/335334
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Sprayed plants showed no apparent growth.
- Intervention effect Sprayed plants lost total dry weight while untreated plants gained it.
- Intervention effect Treatment produced no external gall formation or root initiation.
- Observation Necrosis first appeared in sprayed flower buds.
- Intervention effect Sprayed flower buds produced no mature seeds.
- Observation Both vegetative and nonvegetative treated plants died within three weeks.
- Intervention effect Readily available carbohydrates were essentially depleted within three weeks in vigorous and relatively dormant treated plants.
- Intervention effect Sugars initially increased above untreated plants.
- Observation Sugars later decreased and were nearly depleted in weeks two and three.