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The influence of mist irrigation on the potato I. Micro-environment and leaf water relations

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The influence of low gallonage “mist” irrigation on the following parameters were measured: leaf, air and soil temperature; and soil moisture, relative turgor and stomatal aperature. Misted canopies had lower leaf, air and soil temperature and higher soil moisture than the non-irrigated plants. Stomata of misted plants did not close as rapidly as those of non-irrigated plants.

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  1. D. C. Sanders
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Paper No. 7493 of the Science Journal Series of the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station. This work is part of a thesis submitted by the senior author for the Ph.D. degree in Horticultural Science.

This work supported in part by funds provided by the Department of the Interior, Office of Water Resources Research under P.L. 88-379.

Formerly Research Fellow (presently Assistant Professor, Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N. C. 27607). Professor, Department of Horticultural Science, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55101.

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Sanders, D.C., Nylund, R.E. The influence of mist irrigation on the potato I. Micro-environment and leaf water relations. American Potato Journal 49, 123–137 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02861593

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