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A Measuring Scale for Areas of Cereal Leaves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

P. C. Owen
Affiliation:
Division of Land Research, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia

Summary

A method is described for constructing a direct-reading scale for leaf area measurement of cereals. The scale is constructed from linear dimensions of leaves, and it enables rapid non-destructive measurements to be made.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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