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Smog reduces seedling growth: Zutano avocado seedling growth affected by synthetic smog of ozone and hexene vapor in fumigation chamber experiment

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O. C. Taylor, University of California
E. A. Cardiff, University of California
J. D. Mersereau, University of California
J. T. Middleton, University of California

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California Agriculture 11(3):9-12.

Published March 01, 1957

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Growth of Zutano avocado seedlings was reduced when the plants were exposed to synthetic smog—a mixture of ozone and hexene vapor—in an experiment designed to study the effect of the toxicants on seedling growth.

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The arithmetical relationship between the destruction of chlorophyll and length of exposure to synthetic smog was reported by Louis C. Erickson, Associate Plant Physiologist, University of California, Riverside, and R. T. Wedding, Assistant Plant Physiologist, University of California, Riverside.

Smog reduces seedling growth: Zutano avocado seedling growth affected by synthetic smog of ozone and hexene vapor in fumigation chamber experiment

O. C. Taylor, E. A. Cardiff, J. D. Mersereau, J. T. Middleton
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Smog reduces seedling growth: Zutano avocado seedling growth affected by synthetic smog of ozone and hexene vapor in fumigation chamber experiment

California Agriculture > Volume 11 > Number 3  > research article 

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Share using any of the popular social networks Share by sending an email Print article
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Authors

O. C. Taylor, University of California
E. A. Cardiff, University of California
J. D. Mersereau, University of California
J. T. Middleton, University of California

Publication Information

California Agriculture 11(3):9-12.

Published March 01, 1957

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Author Affiliations show

Abstract

Growth of Zutano avocado seedlings was reduced when the plants were exposed to synthetic smog—a mixture of ozone and hexene vapor—in an experiment designed to study the effect of the toxicants on seedling growth.

Full text

Full text is available in PDF.

Author notes

The arithmetical relationship between the destruction of chlorophyll and length of exposure to synthetic smog was reported by Louis C. Erickson, Associate Plant Physiologist, University of California, Riverside, and R. T. Wedding, Assistant Plant Physiologist, University of California, Riverside.

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