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With the aid of water culture and gravel culture growth-curves have been determined for tomatoes, based on leaf area and on the dry weight of leaves, stem, fruit and roots. Rectilinear increases were measured for the height and the leaf number and leaf area of the plants and parabolic increases for the dry weight of the leaves, stem, roots and fruit. Generative development decreased the extend of vegetative growth, which nevertheless continued to increase at least in a rectilinear fashion.
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Steiner, A.A. Growth curves of tomato plants. Plant Soil 26, 189–192 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01978683
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01978683