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Effect of Temperature, Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen Levels on Quackgrass Rhizome Buds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

R. E. Meyer  and
K. P. Buchholtz
R. E. Meyer
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, A & M College of Texas, College Station, Texas University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
K. P. Buchholtz
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, A & M College of Texas, College Station, Texas
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Abstract

Optimum temperature for bud activity and shoot growth of quackgrass (Agropyron repens (L.) Beauv.) occurred between 20 and 27 C. CO2 and O2 gas concentrations normally occurring in soil air were not found to affect bud activity and shoot growth appreciably.

Type
Research Article
Information
Weeds , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , January 1963 , pp. 1 - 3
Copyright
Copyright © 1963 Weed Science Society of America 

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