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Population, Growth and Water Use of Groundnut Maintained on Stored Water. III. Dry Matter, Water Use and Light Interception

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Title Population, Growth and Water Use of Groundnut Maintained on Stored Water. III. Dry Matter, Water Use and Light Interception
 
Creator Azam-Ali, S N
Simmonds, L P
Rao, R C N
Williams, J H
 
Subject Groundnut
 
Description At a field site in central India, four populations of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) were grown on stored water to investigate how the production of shoot and root dry matter is related to transpired water and intercepted radiation. Throughout the season, total dry matter was closely related to transpiration (slope = 3.0 mg dry matter g−1 water) and the amount of radiation intercepted by foliage (slope = 0.74 g dry matter MJ−1 radiation intercepted). Accumulated transpiration increased linearly with intercepted radiation at 0.37 kg water MJ−1 in the sparser stands. In the densest spacing, the initial slope of the relation at 0.28 kg MJ−1 decreased later in the season because water deficits curtailed growth without a concomitant reduction in the interception of radiation.
 
Publisher Cambridge University Press
 
Date 1989
 
Type Article
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Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/3513/1/JA_537.pdf
Azam-Ali, S N and Simmonds, L P and Rao, R C N and Williams, J H (1989) Population, Growth and Water Use of Groundnut Maintained on Stored Water. III. Dry Matter, Water Use and Light Interception. Experimental Agriculture, 25. pp. 77-86.