Photosynthesis in sugar beet depends on root growth

✍ Scribed by E. C. Humphries; S. A. W. French

• Book ID: 104755382
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1969
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 150 KB
• Volume: 88
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0032-0935
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00396118

✦ Synopsis

Sugar-beet plants, germinated in growth cabinets at 20~ and transplanted into the field after 3 weeks, developed much larger roots than plants grown from seed drilled directly into the soil. At the end of the season, the roots of transplants were 39 % greater than from drilled seed --an increase of 14 m tons per hectare. The increased yield was mainly due to a sustained increase in photosynthesis because of the larger sink for carbohydrates provided by plants from the growth cabinets.