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Growth of Lettuce Seedlings

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THE methods of growth analysis1 have been applied to comparatively few horticultural crops; yet, as stated by Gregory at the Thirteenth International Horticultural Congress in 19522, these techniques open up a wide field in horticultural research and are an essential basis of any attempt to understand the control of growth by environmental factors.

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DULLFORCE, W. Growth of Lettuce Seedlings. Nature 177, 1244–1245 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/1771244b0

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