ROOT-ZONE TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON PEAT-BAG-CULTURED GERBERAS

1987 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 585-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. TSUJITA ◽  
R. G. DUTTON
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Effects ◽  
Root Zone ◽  
Stem Length ◽  
Gerbera Jamesonii ◽  
Greenhouse Production ◽  
Root Zone Temperature ◽  
Heated Soil ◽  
Zone Temperature

Three cultivars of Gerbera jamesonii H. Bolus ex Hook. f. planted in peat bags were grown in greenhouses at 16 °C/12.5 °C/12.5 °C or 16 °C/12.5 °C/22 °C day/night/root-zone temperatures. The yield and stem length of the three gerbera cultivars were substantially enhanced by root-zone heating (16 °C/12.5 °C/22 °C). Placing peat bags on heated soil was effective in maintaining the root-zone temperature for Gerbera production.Key words: Gerbera jamesonii, greenhouse production

scholarly journals Responses to High Root-zone Temperature Among Cultivars of Red Maple and Freeman Maple

1995 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-85
Author(s):  
Lorna C. Wilkins ◽  
William R. Graves ◽  
Alden M. Townsend
Keyword(s):  
Root Zone ◽  
Acer Rubrum ◽  
Dry Mass ◽  
Stem Length ◽  
Red Maple ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Root Zone Temperature ◽  
Leaf Chlorophyll ◽  
Order Root ◽  
Zone Temperature

Abstract Two experiments were conducted to determine whether genotypes of red maple (Acer rubrum L.) and Freeman maple (A. x freemanii E. Murray) differ in responses to high root-zone temperature. During the first experiment, dry mass of ‘Franksred’, ‘October Glory’, and ‘Schlesinger’ red maple, ‘Indian Summer’ Freeman maple, and selections from Arkansas, Maine, and Wisconsin were similar at 24, 28, and 32C (75, 82, and 90F), but dry mass at 36C (97F) was only 22% of that at 28C (82F). ‘Autumn Flame’, ‘Franksred’, ‘October Glory’, and ‘Schlesinger’ red maple and ‘Indian Summer’ and ‘Jeffersred’ Freeman maple differed in responses to 34C (93F) during the second experiment. Stem length and plant dry mass were higher at 28C (82F) than at 34C (93F) for all cultivars except ‘Autumn Flame’ and ‘Jeffersred’, and the extent to which 34C (93F) decreased the length of the longest third-order root ranged from 50% for ‘Autumn Flame’ to 90% for ‘Indian Summer’. The higher root-zone temperature decreased transpiration by as little as 25% for ‘Jeffersred’ to as much as 89% for ‘Franksred’, and 34C (93F) reduced leaf chlorophyll content of only ‘Indian Summer’ and ‘Jeffersred’. These results indicate that ‘Franksred’ and ‘Indian Summer’ are relatively sensitive while ‘Autumn Flame’, ‘Jeffersred’, and ‘Schlesinger’ are relatively resistant to high root-zone temperature.

Root-zone temperature effects on the early development of maize

1967 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric G. Beauchamp ◽  
D. J. Lathwell
Keyword(s):  
Early Development ◽  
Temperature Effects ◽  
Root Zone ◽  
Root Zone Temperature ◽  
Zone Temperature
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