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Morphological responses of bedding plants to three greenhouse temperature regimes |
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| Authors: | Richard H Merritt K C Ting |
| Institution: | a Department of Plant Science, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA b Department of Bioresource Engineering, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA |
| Abstract: | Seedling crops of gazania, geranium, marigold, mimulus, pansy, verbena and vinca were grown to 60% anthesis in three greenhouse temperature regimes: (a) 26 °C day/6 ± 3 °C night (LT), with a 16.5 °C mean daily temperature (MDT), (b) 26 °C day/17 ± 4 °C night, with a 21 °C MDT, and (c) variable day/night temperatures in response to heating and cooling by a phase change material energy storage module (PCM) with an 8 ± 2 °C night and a 16 °C MDT. Crops bloomed from 2 to 17 days earlier in the 26 °C/17 °C greenhouse. The morphological characteristics of all cultivars of gazania, mimulus, pansy and verbena, geranium and vinca were similar regardless of greenhouse temperature regime. Marigold diploid and triploid cultivars and mimulus were morphologically more variable than the other bedding plant species. Crops grown in the PCM and LT greenhouses had virtually identical morphological characteristics and bloomed in about the same number of days. Plant height was not affected by DIF environments in the greenhouses. The PCM and LT greenhouses had a similar MDT, but the distribution of numbers of hours of mean daily temperatures was different. |
| Keywords: | Energy conservation Flowering Gazania (Gazania splendens) Geranium (Pelarganium×hortorum) Height Low night temperatures Marigold (Tagetes patula and Tagetes erecta×patula) Mimulus (Mimulus×hydridus) Pansy (Viola×Wittrockiana) Phase change material energy storage unit Verbena (Verbena×hybrida) Vinca (Catharanthus roseus) |
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