
%0 Journal Article
%A Aspinall, D 
%A Husain, I 
%T The Inhibition of Flowering by Water Stress
%J Australian Journal of Biological Sciences
%D 1970/09/01
%V 23
%N 4
%P 925-936
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/BI9700925
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/BI9700925 
%X Plants of Lolium temulentum L., a single.cycle, long.day plant, and Pharbitis nil Ohois. cv. Violet, a single·cycle, short-day plant, were subjected to osmotic stress during the inductive cycle. An osmotic potential of-IS atm (using poly. ethylene glycol, mol. wt. 4000) during the 24·hr exposure to light completely prevented flowering in L. temulentum. Similarly, -6 atm osmotic potential during the 16-hr dark cycle suppressed flowering in P. nil. Water stress during induction, achieved by withholding water to soil-grown plants, also prevented flower induction in Xanthium strumarium L. 
