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Effect of Length of Day on Flowering and Growth

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AN attempt has been made to confirm the work of Garner and Allard1 done in America, under the conditions prevailing in Britain at the Welsh Plant Breeding Station, and to test particularly the behaviour of various strains of herbage plants under different lengths of day.

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  1. "Effect of Relative Length of Day and Night and other Factors of the Environment on Growth and Reproduction in Plants,” W. W. Garner and H. A. Allard (Journ. Agric. Res., vol. xviii. No. 11, p. 553); “Further Studies in Photoperiodism, the Response of the Plant to Relative Length of Day and Night,” W. W. Garner and H. A. Allard (Journ. Agric. Res., vol. xxiii. No. 11, p. 71, 1923); “Photoperiodism in Relation to Hydrogen ion Concentration of Cell Sap and Carbohydrate Content of the Plant,” W. W. Garner, C. Bacon, and H. A. Allard (Journ, Agric. Res., vol. xxvii. No. 3, p. 119, 1924).

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TINCKER, M. Effect of Length of Day on Flowering and Growth. Nature 114, 350–351 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114350a0

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