Accounting for variation in designing greenhouse experiments with special reference to greenhouses containing plants on conveyor systems.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are a number of unresolved issues in the design of experiments in greenhouses. They include whether statistical designs should be used and, if so, which designs should be used. Also, are there thigmomorphogenic or other effects arising from the movement of plants on conveyor belts within a greenhouse? A two-phase, single-line wheat experiment involving four tactics was conducted in a conventional greenhouse and a fully-automated phenotyping greenhouse (Smarthouse) to investigate these issues.

Results and discussion

Analyses of our experiment show that there was a small east-west trend in total area of the plants in the Smarthouse. Analyses of the data from three multiline experiments reveal a large north-south trend. In the single-line experiment, there was

SUBMITTER: Brien CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3630016 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature