… However, for penetrometer resistances greater than 3 MPa, the ratio of leaf area to total plant
weight (leaf area ratio) at final harvest decreased with increasing soil strength, being 132f 3 …

… were greater in older plants. Photosynthetic differences were largest at 1.2 ºC in very early
spring, where older plants … We find evidence of increased cold tolerance in older cohorts of …

… the growth of the individual plant but increased the total plant material produced per pot, ie
… the plant population the smaller was the individual plant, but the greater the amount of plant …

… This phenomenon, known as hardening, suggests that plants have greater tolerance to …
young plants. Our hypothesis is that there may be an increased drought tolerance in these plants …

… increase in root weight vis a vis the shoots. Thus young cabbage plants would appear to have
a greater … adaptation of their growth habit (ie increasing root production at the expense of …

… < 005) net assimilation rate and greater plant dry weight (P < … of the slow respiration group
was greater than that of the fast. … Increase in (a) plant dry weight per unit soil surface area and …

… plants than in the controls at the first sampling. Most importantly, the length of the taproot was
greater in the droughttreated plants than in the control plants at … suggests that increases in …

… young plants. This contrasts with investments in traditional IT capital, which increased their
… high-variance industries, consistent with a greater option value from reductions in the cost of …

… the increase in weight with time of young grass plants is … u, the rate of increase in weight of
the whole plant per unit of shoot … will decrease with time and if greater will increase (Fig. 2). …

… For both wheat and barley plants, increasing impedance to root growth had a large and
rapid negative effect. Figure 3a, b shows mean responses observed for barley and wheat, …