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Sugar beet bolting in the root crop

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

J. M. Lisa
Affiliation:
Estaction Experimental de Aula Dei, Zaragoza, Spain

Summary

Sugar beet bolting in the root crop was studied during nine growing seasons, under the extreme climatic conditions in which the autumn-sown crop grows in Southern Spain.

Bolting is positively correlated with the number of days with minimum air temperatures ranging from 2 to 8 °C or with the number of days with mean temperatures between 8 °C and 13 °C.

The occurrence of bolting is also affected by rainfall distribution in so far as it determines the date of seedling emergence.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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