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Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India. Studies in Indian Sugarcanes No.5. On Testing the Suitability of Sugarcane varieties for Different Localities By a System of Measurements Periodicity in the Growth of the Sugarcane

1919

The effect of locality on the growth of the different varieties 171 V. The effect of the season on the length of the joints 172 VI. [...] Studies in the growth in length of the different parts of the cane plant have occupied workers in Java at intervals for many years although the (155)"156 PERIODICITY IN THE GROWTH OF SUGARCANE importance of the subject from the factory point of view has barely been realized. [...] He made a distinction between the actual growth of the young internodes and their apparent " growth as judged by the observation of the leaf joint and showed that while the difference between the actual and apparent growth is small during the period of full growth of the cane plant it is large at the beginning and the end of the season. [...] The leaf scars of many dicotyledons engrave the history of the year's growth on the stem whether it be the slow growth of spring when the scale leaves gradually change into foliage leaves the putting forth of the branches the rapid growth in the summer or the slowing down in autumn. [...] The numbers of dead leaves are counted and the length of the cane covered by these (these two figures being taken as indicating the rate of ripening of the cane) the length of the shoot (unripened part of the plant) is recorded and the total length of the whole plant when laid out on the ground the maximum width of the leaf and the average thickness of the stein.
agriculture environment
Pages
48
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.141515
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-x C.A. Barber view
Studies in Indian Sugarcanes No.5
155-179 unknown view
Publications of the Imperltil Department of Agriculture in India.
i-iv unknown view

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