Re: your thoughts please
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: your thoughts please
- From: r*@hotmail.com
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 09:55:30 PDT
Here's a post from Rick Noffke I got from the archives from 97. It bears
repeating. If anyone wants to pursue some of these ideas, check out the
archives. Search specific botanical terms or just search for "Noffke". His
posts were always excellent.
Here's the quote:
Ron:
An interesting subject indeed! I certainly don't have the answer to this
question, but would like to shed a little light on the plant physiology of
the issue. Its my understanding that in "normal" plant growing situations
(which may or may not be true for AGS) photosynthates, and other "goodies"
move in the plant relative to source / sink relationships. A source for
photosynthates would be a leaf region with high net photosythesis, and a
sink would be an area like a developing fruit that needs lots of stuff.
The movement would then be from source to sink. Many different plant parts
at different times of the year can be sources and sinks.
For example in the fall a root storage crop will have the roots being the
main carbo sink, and the leaves are the source. In the spring the roots
become the source and the leave growth is the sink until they develope.
I'm not sure what this means for AGS, but I thought I'd pass it along
anyway.
Rick from Wisconsin
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>I asked this question last year and I don't know if we came to a
>concensus. I do know this: More leaves=more photosynthesis.
>
>Jon in UT, USA
>>What is everyones thoughts and Ideas on how a plant actually
>>works. ......
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