How to Determine the Plastochron Index? | Plants
The long-day plants need 16hrs of illumination per day. Light was provided to Xanthium before dawn and dusk in such a way that the plants got 16 hrs of illumination per day. Thus the plants were kept strictly in vegetative growth. About 20-30 plants were selected and each leaf of plants was measured daily from July 8 to August 26, 1952.