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Plant Physiology 93:409-411 (1990)
© 1990 American Society of Plant Biologists

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Environmental and Stress Physiology

Control of Continuous Irradiation Injury on Potatoes with Daily Temperature Cycling 1

Theodore W. Tibbitts, Susan M. Bennett and Weixing Cao

Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706

Two controlled-environment experiments were conducted to determine the effects of temperature fluctuations under continuous irradiation on growth and tuberization of two potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) cultivars, Kennebec and Superior. These cultivars had exhibited chlorotic and stunted growth under continuous irradiation and constant temperatures. The plants were grown for 4 weeks in the first experiment and for 6 weeks in the second experiment. Each experiment was conducted under continuous irradiation of 400 micromoles per square meter per second of photosynthetic photon flux and included two temperature treatments: constant 18°C and fluctuating 22°C/14°C on a 12-hour cycle. A common vapor pressure deficit of 0.62 kilopascal was maintained at all temperatures. Plants under constant 18°C were stunted and had chlorotic and abscised leaves and essentially no tuber formation. Plants grown under the fluctuating temperature treatment developed normally, were developing tubers, and had a fivefold or greater total dry weight as compared with those under the constant temperature. These results suggest that a thermoperiod can allow normal plant growth and tuberization in potato cultivars that are unable to develop effectively under continuous irradiation.

1 Supported by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration grant NCC-2-301.






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