Claim · model-written summary
Photosynthetic ability decreased as leaf area declined at maturity.
- Taxon
- sugar beet
Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgarist0 - Organ / stage
- maturing stagee0
- Outcome
- abilitye0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the ability decreased with reduction of total leaf area at maturing stage”
t0“Sugar Beet Plants”
Title
Eiji OSHIMA Japanese Journal of Crop Science 1958. doi:10.1626/jcs.27.141
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Observation The youngest mature sugar beet leaf had the highest photosynthetic activity.
- Association Whole-plant photosynthetic amount increased with total leaf area, but less rapidly than leaf area.
- Association Photosynthetic amount per unit leaf area decreased as total leaf area expanded and reached its minimum at maximum leaf area.
- Mechanism The authors attributed reduced light reception at peak canopy growth to mutual leaf shading.