Claim · model-written summary
Shading proportionally reduced net assimilation rate independently of the time of year.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- shadinge5
- Outcome
- proportional reduction in net assimilation ratee5
- Direction
- reductione5
- Qualifier
- independent of the time of the yeare5
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“young glasshouse tomato plants”
e5“The proportional reduction in net assimilation rate by shading was independent of the time of the year”
Title
Effects of shading and time of year on net assimilation rates of young glasshouse tomato plants
A. J. COOPER Annals of Applied Biology 1967. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7348.1967.tb04419.x
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation Minimum net assimilation rate of glasshouse tomato was 14 g./m. 2 /week, in mid‐December.
- Observation Maximum net assimilation rate of glasshouse tomato was 78 g./m. 2 /week, between 27 June and 8 July.
- Observation The northern limit of vegetative growth of tomato under glass in mid-winter is probably latitude 59–60°.
- Observation Limiting daylength for tomato vegetative growth under glass is approximately 6 hr.
- Observation The photosynthetic system of glasshouse tomato is not light-saturated in midsummer in southern England.