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Photoperiod Responses in Monoecious and Dioecious Hydrilla verticillata

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

David F. Spencer and
Lars W.J. Anderson
David F. Spencer
Affiliation:
U.S. Dep. Agric./Agric. Res Serv. Aquatic Weed Res. Lab., Univ. California, Davis, CA 95616
Lars W.J. Anderson
Affiliation:
U.S. Dep. Agric./Agric. Res Serv. Aquatic Weed Res. Lab., Univ. California, Davis, CA 95616
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Abstract

Thirty-eight percent of monoecious hydrilla [Hydrilla verticillata (L.f.) Royle # HYLLI] grown from tubers produced new tubers after 28 days exposure to a 10-h photoperiod. One hundred percent of the plants grown at a 10-h photoperiod produced tubers by 56 days while only thirty-eight percent of those grown at a 12-h photoperiod did so. Plants grown at 14- or 16-h photoperiods did not produce tubers. Tubers appeared to be produced at the expense of new root and shoot tissue. Dioecious hydrilla (female) grown under similar conditions did not produce tubers by 56 days at any photoperiod examined. Relative growth rates (total dry weight) for both types did not differ with photoperiod and ranged between 81 ± 63 and 284 ± 52 mg·g-1·wk-1 (regression coefficient ± standard error; n = 30). In general, total chlorophyll (a+b) was greater for dioecious than for monoecious plants. The ratios of chlorophyll “a” to chlorophyll “b” and carotenoids to chlorophyll a changed with increasing photoperiod and plant age in a similar manner for both monoecious and dioecious plants.

Keywords

Tuber productionaquatic weedweed ecologydry matter allocationHYLLI

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Weed Biology and Ecology
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Weed Science , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , July 1986, pp. 551 - 557
Copyright
Copyright © 1986 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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