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474 The Ohio Naturalist. [Vol. XII, No. 4, THE DIURNALINODDING OF THE WILD CARROT AND OTHER PLANTS. JOHN H. SCHAFFNER. Many plants exhibit periodical movements during the twenty- four hours of a day.
1Department of Plant Science, University College P.O. Box 78, Cardiff CF11XL, Wales, U.K. 2Institute of Horticultural Research (National Vegetable Research Station) Wellesbourne, Warwick CV35 9EF, U.K. Correspondence to: Institute of Horticultural Research (N.V.R.S.
Polyamine biosynthesis Polyamine metabolism Polyamines Functions Polyamine in plant growth and development Polyamines and ethylene Polyamines and somatic embryogenesis
biennial that is closely related to garden carrots, but with a much reduced taproot. During the second year of growth, the plants produce stalks with white, flat-topped flowers.
2) To develop a simple tool to predict wild carrot seed production on seedheads cut during grass seed swathing. 3) To determine the effect of temperature during wild carrot seed maturation on the germination timing and rate of next seasons wild carrot population.
Guo-Qing Tanga, Marcel Lüscherb, and Arnd Sturma a Friedrich Miescher Institute, Maulbeerstrasse 66, CH-4058 Basel, Switzerland b Botanical Institute, University of Basel, Hebelstrasse 1, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
1 and 0.4 bars and soil temperatures between 14 and 23 °C. Ascospores were first detected in mid-July to mid-August, usually before apothecia were observed in the crop, and after 712 days with soil matric potentials between 0.1 and 0.
Cause: Meloidogyne hapla, a nematode that also attacks other vege-table crops. The Columbia root-knot nematode, M. chitwoodi, is not an economic problem on carrots.