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Yoshida - 1981 - Fundamentals of Rice Crop Science

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204 FUNDAMENTALS OF RICE CROP SCIENCE<br />

5.3. The relationship between LAI, photosynthetic and apparent assimilation<br />

rates, and dry matter production (diagrammatic) (Tanaka et al 1966).<br />

• Respiration does not increase linearly with LAI; it increases curvilinearly.<br />

• As a result, there is no optimum LAI for CGR. The CGR reaches maximum at<br />

a LAT <strong>of</strong> about 6 for IR8 and about 4 for Peta, beyond which it remains the<br />

same despite further increases in LAI. The LAI at which crop growth rate<br />

reaches maximum may be called the critical LAI.<br />

• The maximum CGR <strong>of</strong> erect-leaved IR8 was greater by 20 g/m 2 per week than<br />

that <strong>of</strong> droopy-leaved Peta.<br />

5.4. Photosynthesis, crop growth rate (×0.9), and respiration <strong>of</strong> IR8 (left) and Peta (right) during<br />

4 weeks before flowering (Cock and <strong>Yoshida</strong> 1973).

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