Claim · model-written summary
Hardened plants had a greater root length to shoot length ratio.
- Taxon
- Lotus creticus
Lotus creticust0 - Treatment
- least water and lowest temperaturee0
- Outcome
- root length:shoot length ratioe0
- Direction
- greatere0
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Verbatim
e0“The regime involving least water and lowest temperature in the nursery period produced plants best adapted to stress at transplanting: a greater root length:shoot length ratio, higher percentage of brown roots and lower fresh weight:length ratio in shoots.”
t0“Lotus creticus”
Title
J.A. Franco; S. BaňÒ; S. Ferná Ndez; et al. The Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology 2001. doi:10.1080/14620316.2001.11511346
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Association Nursery hardening helped more when transplant irrigation was lower.
- Observation Least nursery water and lowest temperature produced plants best adapted to transplant stress.
- Intervention effect Hardened plants had a higher percentage of brown roots.
- Intervention effect Hardened plants had a lower shoot fresh weight to length ratio.
- Observation All plants survived transplanting.
- Intervention effect Most stressed nursery plants showed greater root growth after transplanting.
- Intervention effect Most stressed nursery plants showed more rapid root growth after transplanting.