Table 1.
Diurnal variation of leaf growth rate in monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous plants
| Maximum relative growth rate |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Species |
Day |
Dusk |
Night |
Dawn |
Method |
Author |
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| Monocotyledons | ||||||||||||
| Zea | X | LVDT | Watts (1974) | |||||||||
| X | Ruler | Acevedo et al. (1979) | ||||||||||
| Triticum | X | LVDT | Christ (1978) | |||||||||
| Sorghum | X | Ruler | Acevedo et al. (1979) | |||||||||
| Festuca | X | LVDT | Durand et al. (1995) | |||||||||
| Oryza | X | LVDT | Seneweera et al. (1995) | |||||||||
| Dicotyledons | ||||||||||||
| Helianthus | X | Ruler | Boyer (1968) | |||||||||
| Glycine | X | Ruler | Bunce (1977) | |||||||||
| Phaseolus | X | LVDT | Davies and van Volkenburgh (1983) | |||||||||
| Vitis | X | LVDT | Shackel et al. (1987) | |||||||||
| Ricinus | X | DISP | Schmundt et al. (1998) | |||||||||
| Nicotiana | X | DISP | Walter and Schurr (2000) | |||||||||
| Populus | X | DISP | Walter et al. (unpubl. res.) | |||||||||
LVDT, Linear variable displacement transducer; DISP, digital image sequence processing.