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Growth and dry-matter partitioning in sugar beet
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In this paper, the authors used data from 11 sugar beet crops grown at different sites, in different years and with some variations in husbandry, to re-examine the process of dry-matter partitioning.Abstract:
Data from 11 sugar-beet crops grown at different sites, in different years and with some variations in husbandry have been used to re-examine the process of dry-matter partitioning. Two-phase linear models did not describe adequately the distribution of dry matter. There was no evidence of a discontinuity in the partitioning between root and shoot at any point in crop development. It is suggested that, contrary to a recent view, events in the shoot, rather than the storage root, largely determine how dry matter is allocated between growth and sugar storage.read more
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Crop physiology and agronomy
R. K. Scott,K. W. Jaggard +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a critical appraisal of sugar beet production practices against the background of plant and crop physiology and environmental science is presented, with a focus on the current state of the art.
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Assessing the genetic resources to improve drought tolerance in sugar beet: agronomic traits of diverse genotypes under droughted and irrigated conditions
TL;DR: Both yield potential and DTI (which may ensure better yield stability) should be considered simultaneously as breeding targets for drought-prone areas.
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Nitrogen fertilizer and the efficiency of the sugar beet crop in late summer
TL;DR: Nitrogen from fertilizer is not necessary to maintain canopy efficiency and seems to be necessary solely to stimulate the rapid growth of the canopy in early summer.
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Biology and physiology of the sugar-beet plant
Malcolm Elliott,G. D. Weston +1 more
TL;DR: Beta vulgaris is a member of the Chenopodiaceae and, like many others in the family, is a halophyte, although most current European sugar-beet varieties are triploid hybrids of diploid, male-sterile females and tetraploid pollinators.
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Sugarbeet seedling growth from germination to first leaf stage
C. Durr,J. Boiffin +1 more
TL;DR: The growth of sugarbeet (Beta vulgaris L.) seedlings was investigated under laboratory conditions in 1990 and 1991 and three phases were identified during heterotrophic growth in the dark, based on the changes in dry weight, carbon and nitrogen contents.
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A winter wheat crop simulation model without water or nutrient limitations
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An analysis of leaf growth in sugar beet. II. Leaf appearance in field crops.
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of season and certain agronomic treatments (irrigation, nitrogen fertiliser, density of planting and sowing date) on leaf number were analysed in a series of sugar-beet crops grown during the five seasons 1978-82.
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The growth and development of the storage root of sugar beet
TL;DR: Average cell size is a major determinant of the sugar concentration of the storage root of sugar beet as a sugar accumulating organ.