Abstract
The relationship between water shortage and tuber initiation and development in the cv. Maris Piper was examined in glasshouse experiments with several severities of water-stress induced by withholding water at different stages of plant growth. There was a direct reduction in tuber numbers per stem with increasing duration of water stress in plants deprived of water from the time when 50% of plants had emerged but not when water was withheld from the time of onset of initiation. Using the data from both years a statistically significant negative correlation was established between tuber number per stem and the number of days of soil moisture potential <−25 kPa.
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