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The significance of changes in the red/far-red ratio, associated with either neighbour plants or twilight, for tillering in <em>Lolium multiflorum</em> Lam.
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New Phytologist . Dec90, Vol. 116 Issue 4, p565-572. 8p. - Publication Year :
- 1990
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Abstract
- <em>Lolium multiflorum</em> Lam. plants were used to investigate whether phytochrome-mediated tillering responses, anticipatory to competition: <em>(a)</em>, are potentially disturbed by the twilight drop in the red to far-red ratio (R: FR) of sunlight (caused by atmospheric factors), and <em>(b)</em>, occur in densely-sown (> 280 plants m-2) grass canopies, where competition is quickly established. Isolated plants grown under sunlight received natural low R: FR during twilight, but supplementary R provided simultaneously did not increase tillering. When a wide range of R: FR was provided at the end of natural or fluorescent light photoperiods, tillering was reduced only by very low R: FR (lower than natural twilight R: FR). Leaf sheath length followed a similar pattern of response. Single plants were grown in pots placed at various densities. High densities reduced the R: FR at plant bases and the number of tillers per plant before changes in dry weight and leaf number were found. Both very low R: FR provided at the end of the photoperiod, and increasing plant densities, caused more erectophile shoots. In densely-sown canopies of <em>Lolium multiflorum</em> both R: FR signals caused by neighbours, and tillering responses occur well before strong competition is established. Tillering is not obviously affected by the twilight drop in R:FR. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0028646X
- Volume :
- 116
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- New Phytologist
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 12499686
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.1990.tb00540.x