Claim · model-written summary
Authors recommend storage at null CO2 exchange rates to prevent growth and quality loss.
- Taxon
- Eggplant
Solanum melongenat0 - Outcome
- store the seedlings under conditions where they have null CO2 exchange rates throughout the storage periode0
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Verbatim
e0“For keeping seedlings at no-growth status and preventing quality degradation, it would be required to store the seedlings under conditions where they have null CO2 exchange rates throughout the storage period”
t0“Eggplant Plug Seedlings”
Title
Toyoki KOZAI; Chieri KUBOTA; Kosuke SAKAMI; et al. Seibutsu kankyō chōsetsu/Seibutsu kankyou chousetsu 1996. doi:10.2525/ecb1963.34.135
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Dark storage reduced seedling dry weight.
- Intervention effect Storage at 2μmol m-2s-1 reduced seedling dry weight.
- Intervention effect Storage at 8μmol m-2s-1 increased seedling dry weight.
- Intervention effect Storage at 16μmol m-2s-1 increased seedling dry weight.
- Observation Seedling light compensation point was 8μmol m-2s-1 before storage.
- Observation Light compensation point fell to 4-5ymol m-2s-1 after storage regardless of PPFD.
- Observation All seedlings stored under light survived transplanting.
- Observation All seedlings stored under light grew successfully after storage.
- Intervention effect Dark storage lowered photosynthetic capacity.
- Intervention effect Dark storage lowered survival at transplanting.
- Intervention effect Dark storage lowered poststorage growth rate.