Abstract
Cantaloupes were grown on an irrigation line source so that one row received 65 cm water (wet plants) and another row received 21 cm water (dry plants) during the growing season. In wet plants, plastochron indices (PIs) advanced more rapidly with time, and final leaf size was greater. Diminished water supply appears to affect the rate of development more than the sequence of developmental events, as evidenced from the similarity for wet and dry plants of plots of branch plastochron index versus main stem plastochron index. It is concluded that the PI is a better scale than chronological time for studies of the effect of water availability on cantaloupe development.
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