Abstract
The progress of leaf emergence, external morphology and apical development stages were recorded in sowings of triticale (cv. Lasko) made from February to November 1990 at Aberdeen (57° N). Leaf appearance and the number of primordia were related to thermal time (above a base of 0°C) except when photoperiods were <c. 11 h. The thermal time per phyllochron varied between leaves and the combined times for all the phyllochrons at a particular sowing accounted for the apparent response of average phyllochron to sowing date. The thermal time requirements for progression to the double ridge stage, terminal spikelet stage, onset of stem elongation and anthesis were similar except where photoperiods of <11 h occurred. The rate of grain primordium production was constant when photoperiod had been increasing at seedling emergence but the rate was reduced when the seedling experienced shortening photoperiods at emergence.
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