Growth relations between individual fruits, and between fruits and roots in cucumber.

In a severely pruned "shoot-fruit-root" system pronounced relations were observed between individual fruits and between root and fruit growth, viz. the dominance of a single fruit, usually the first, over subsequent fruits with marked inhibition of their growth, and a similar inhibiting effect of developing fruit on root growth. These effects, related to the individual organs, are probably of the same nature as the more indirect mass effects described by others in conventional plants under more normal growing conditions. The system described offers better possibilities for physiological studies.-Centre Plant physiol. Res., Wageningen. (Abstract retrieved from CAB Abstracts by CABI’s permission