Claim · model-written summary
In tomato seedlings, increased growth response occurred in shoots 15 days after transplanting and in roots two weeks later.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume1 - Material
- cv. Rehovot 13e1
- Organ / stage
- seedlingse1
- Outcome
- IGR was recorded in shootse1
- Qualifier
- in roots only two weeks latere1
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Verbatim
e1“IGR was recorded in shoots of tomato ( Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. cv. Rehovot 13) seedlings, 15 days after transplanting and in roots only two weeks later”
Title
Physiological and developmental aspects of increased plant growth in solarised soils
J. M. GRUENZWEIG; H. D. RABINOWITCH; J. KATAN Annals of Applied Biology 1993. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7348.1993.tb04059.x
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- Intervention effect Corn showed increased growth response in solarised soil relative to untreated soil.
- Intervention effect Cucumber showed increased growth response in solarised soil relative to untreated soil.
- Intervention effect Sorghum showed increased growth response in solarised soil relative to untreated soil.
- Intervention effect Tobacco showed increased growth response in solarised soil relative to untreated soil.
- Intervention effect Tomato showed increased growth response in solarised soil relative to untreated soil.
- Intervention effect The third true tomato leaf had significantly higher chlorophyll and protein contents after soil solarisation than in controls.
- Intervention effect Degradation of chlorophyll and protein was delayed with leaf aging in plants grown in solarised soil relative to controls.
- Intervention effect The age-related decrease of net photosynthesis was delayed in solarised soil relative to control soil.
- Intervention effect The age-related decline of photochemical yield was delayed in solarised soil relative to control soil.
- Intervention effect The ratio of variable to maximal chlorophyll fluorescence was independent of soil treatment and comparable to normal plant levels.
- Association The authors concluded that initial increased growth response in solarised soil is independent of improved root growth.
- Mechanism The authors interpreted delayed leaf senescence as contributing to increased growth response.