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Maintaining a high proportion of double-flowered plants may decrease seed yield.
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e0“maintaining a high percentage of plants with double-flowered capitula may decrease seed yield”
t0“Zinnia”
Title
Analysis of Zinnia Capitulum Composition
Daiichiro Miyajima; Masaaki Nakayama Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 1994. doi:10.21273/jashs.119.4.683
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation A capitulum accumulated fewer than 20 newly opened florets daily for more than 15 days.
- Observation Kumamotonokagayaki had 210 to 330 florets per capitulum.
- Observation Snowball had 220 to 290 florets per capitulum.
- Observation Purple Zem had 160 to 240 florets per capitulum.
- Association Tubular floret numbers were negatively correlated with ray floret numbers.
- Observation Ornamentally superior capitula had more ray and fewer tubular florets than single-flowered capitula.