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An Environment System for Plant Studies with Controlled Temperature, Humidity, and Light

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Richard Behrens
Affiliation:
Crops Research Division, A.R.S.; Dept. of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul
Howard L. Morton
Affiliation:
Crops Research Division, A.R.S., U.S.D.A., College Station, Texas
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Need for reliable information concerning the effects of environment on the response of plants to herbicides motivated the construction of the controlled environment system described herein. A unit suitable for such studies should have these general specifications: 1. a useful range of control of light, temperature, and relative humidity; 2. no recirculation of air, to avoid overall contamination of the unit by volatile herbicides; 3. capability of maintaining several sets of conditions simultaneously; and 4. a design which may be modified easily. The system described was constructed with these points in mind.

Type
Research Article
Information
Weeds , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , April 1960 , pp. 182 - 186
Copyright
Copyright © 1960 Weed Science Society of America 

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4 Lighting-system components suggested by M. W. Parker, Crops Research Division, A.R.S., U.S.D.A., Beltsville, Maryland. Google Scholar

5 The hygrostat consists of a controller with remotely mounted electric sensing element. Google Scholar

6 Mimeographed list of the source and cost of components will be supplied by authors on request. Google Scholar