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Annals of Botany 40: 301-315, 1976
© 1976 Annals of Botany Company

RESEARCH-ARTICLE

Growth and Assimilate Conversion of Cotton Bolls (Gossypium hirsutum L.) 1. Growth of Fruits

and Substrate Demand

H. J. W. MUTSAERS1

Department of Tropical Crops, Agricultural University Wageningen, The Netherlands

Received: 11 February 1975    Returned for revision: 12 July 1975   

A generalized growth pattern of cotton bolls and their components is derived from data available in the literature. This pattern is used to calculate substrate requirements for dry matter accumulation and results in an estimated consumption of 138.5 g of (CH2O) and 15.4 g of amino acids per 100 g of mature boll dry matter omitting maintenance respiration. For maintenance respiration at 12 h day and 12 h night temperature of 30 and 20 °C respectively and a boll maturation period of 50 days, 26.9 g CH2O per 100 g of mature bolls is found. The rate is considerably higher in the earlier phases of boll development when primarily ‘structural growth’ occurs compared with later phases when ‘storage growth’ prevails.


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