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Abstract

Transplanting Crop plants. In the United States. The annual value of crops which are usually transplanted amounts to nearly 200,000,000 dollars.grown on an area of 1.289.000 acres representing 57 per cent of the valueof all vegetables other than potatoes.this readers the work of Loomis (Memoir87,Cornell Experiment Station)on the value orotherwise of transplanting.of great commercial value.Transplanting is becoming recognised as an economic expedient not directly promoting the development of the plant.Experiments indicated that in the early seeding are vegetables could be transplanted with little are no injury.but with advancing maturity the injury increased on all cases.but more in some crops than others.The roots of transplanted plants were more branched than those not moved.but he general effect of the process was to retard development the degre of retardation depending upon the plant,its age and the conditions of transplanting , tosome extent, also,the total yield was reduced.All crops seemed to be equally resistent to rapid wilting at the time of transplanting.But they varied in their ability to withstand unfavourable conditions afterwards, presumablydue to differences in the rate of reestablishment of roots.the effects of hardening off seedlings were investigated by transpiration studies before and after transplanting. which showed a more raped recovery of the normal rate in plants.previously hardened,this recovery being apparently associated with quicker root development. Aclear correlation has been established between case of transplanting and rate of new root formation,plants seriously injured by transplanting showing normally rapid top growth and slow root replacement.Root replacement seems to be the largest single factor concerned in transplanting. though the age at which suberisation of the older roots accurs may also have some bearing upon the matter in its relation to their power of absorbing water immedietly after the root tips have been broken off when the plants are disturbed.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.002006

Pages

20 - 26

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