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Annals of Botany 82: 871-881, 1998
© 1998 Annals of Botany Company

Prediction and Measurement of the Decline in the Critical-K, the Maximum-K and Total Cation Plant Concentrations during the Growth of Field Vegetable Crops

D. J. GREENWOOD+, and D. A. STONE

Horticulture Research International, Wellesbourne, Warwick, CV35 9EF, UK

June 2, 1998 ; July 24, 1998 . August 27, 1998 .

The declines in maximum and critical K concentrations in plant dry matter of 16 different vegetable species were predicted from emergence to maturity by assuming that both were proportional to the critical %N calculated in terms of plant dry matter per unit area using previously-described equations. Values of the proportionality constants were obtained from published measurements made, at commercial maturity, of crops grown in multi-level fertilizer experiments. Predictions were tested: (a) against measurements made at intervals during growth in experiments receiving a single level of fertilizer; (b) against measurements made of the highest K concentrations measured at the seedling stage in soil-K gradient experiments; and (c) against the results of a K-fertilizer-response experiment in which harvests were carried out at intervals during growth. Results were consistent with the predictions and, thus, with the view that both critical and maximum K concentrations are proportional to critical %N throughout growth. K concentrations in plant tissue water fluctuated widely during the growing season and values, averaged over the entire growing period for each of ten crops, varied by a factor of 3. These values were proportional to the mean cation concentrations (meq l-1) calculated by assuming that all the ions were in solution. Total cation concentration (meq 100 g-1) of dry matter was linearly related to critical N concentration. Evidence was also obtained that maximum K concentration, critical K concentration and total cation concentration (meq 100 g-1) during growth were linearly related to relative growth rate, provided that crop weights were greater than 2 t ha-1dry matter. A hypothesis was developed to co-ordinate these findings.Copyright 1998 Annals of Botany Company.

Vegetable crops, cation, plant potassium, plant nitrogen, critical concentration, relative growth rate, plant weight.


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