Analysing growth and development of plants jointly using developmental growth stages.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Plant growth, the increase of organ dimensions over time, and development, the change in plant structure, are often studied as two separate processes. However, there is structural and functional evidence that these two processes are strongly related. The aim of this study was to investigate the co-ordination between growth and development using mango trees, which have well-defined developmental stages.

Methods

Developmental stages, determined in an expert way, and organ sizes, determined from objective measurements, were collected during the vegetative growth and flowering phases of two cultivars of mango, Mangifera indica. For a given cultivar and growth unit type (either vegetative or flowering), a multistage model based on absolute growth rate sequence

SUBMITTER: Dambreville A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4284117 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature