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Morphological Alterations in Response to Management and Environment

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Physiology of Cotton

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The morphology of the cotton plant serves two main functions. The first is that it provides photosynthate sources (i.e., leaves) and sinks (i.e., squares, flowers, and bolls). The second function is the plant superstructure (i.e., roots, stems, branches, petioles) upon which the sources and sinks reside, and through which they are interconnected via vascular tissues. Excellent reviews of the morphology of the cotton plant have been published earlier by numerous authors, including Mauney (1984) and Oosterhuis and Jernstedt (1999).

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Wells, R., Stewart, A.M. (2010). Morphological Alterations in Response to Management and Environment. In: Stewart, J.M., Oosterhuis, D.M., Heitholt, J.J., Mauney, J.R. (eds) Physiology of Cotton. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3195-2_3

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