EFFECTS OF HIGH SOIL MOISTURE AND LACK OF SOIL AERATION UPON FRUITING BEHAVIOR OF YOUNG COTTON PLANTS
- 1 July 1931
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Plant Physiology
- Vol. 6 (3) , 585-591
- https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.6.3.585
Abstract
A larger percentage of fruit buds was shed from cotton plants grown under conditions of high soil moisture content than from plants grown under more nearly optimum conditions of soil moisture. The percentage of 0 was lower and the percentage of CO2 was higher in the soil of the flooded than of the unflooded plat. A high percentage of CO2 and a low percentage of 0 in the soil air were associated with an increase in the percentage of shedding of fruit buds.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit: