biologia plantarum

International journal on Plant Life established by Bohumil Nìmec in 1959

Biologia plantarum 14:52-61, 1972 | DOI: 10.1007/BF02920902

A cybernetic model of growth correlation in young apple trees

L. S. Jankiewicz1
1 Department of Plant Physiology, Research Institute of Pomology, Skierniewice, Poland

Growth correlations among lateral shoots of one-year-old apple treesMalusMill., were described. The existence of a mechanism was postulated through which small original differences between buds or young shoots are quickly augmented, thus leading to differentiation of long shoots and short shoots. Existing hypotheses do not seem sufficient for explaining correlative phenomena of this type; a cybernetic approach was therefore applied. Studying growth correlations in terms of cybernetic revealed that previous hypotheses concerning correlations do not contradict each other as often thought, but depict different links in a more general chain of events. A cybernetic model points out the importance of root influences in interaction among shoots. It also shows that synergism between auxin, gibberellin and cytokinin in xylem and phloem differentiation and in starch metabolism is very important for understanding correlations in apple trees.

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