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The Effect of Cyperus esculentus Tuber Maturity on 14C Accumulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

R. J. Thullen  and
P. E. Keeley
R. J. Thullen
Affiliation:
Plant Physiol. and Res. Plant Physiol., Agric. Res. Serv., U. S. Dep. of Agric., Shafter, CA 93263
P. E. Keeley
Affiliation:
Plant Physiol. and Res. Plant Physiol., Agric. Res. Serv., U. S. Dep. of Agric., Shafter, CA 93263
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Abstract

Yellow nutsedge (Cyperus esculentus L.) tuber maturity was studied to determine its influence on accumulation of 14C from urea and NAA (naphthaleneacetic acid). Radioactive carbon from the above sources accumulated in tubers in decreasing amounts as tubers became more mature when the plants to which they were attached were treated. Tubers that were young at treatment accumulated the highest concentration of radioactivity and parent tubers (most mature) accumulated the least 14C. Tubers that were classified as mature, but not parents, accumulated insignificant amounts of radioactive carbon.

Type
Research Article
Information
Weed Science , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , May 1978 , pp. 270 - 273
Copyright
Copyright © 1978 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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