Plant Growth Follow Up Experiments

In earlier papers on this site single plants showed second order polynomial growth,  see (double click)

Experiments with oil palm, soybean and sunflower showed not the expected exponential but second order polynomial growth

To assure (or reject) these conclusions we proceeded with collecting data sets from others or with own follow up experiments. This page will summarize them and give the results (double click on the summarizing statements, i.e. the titles of the underlaying paper to examen the details).

A rice dataset published by a renowned institute supports the idea of second order polynomial growth.

A home experiment with sage under suboptimal conditions supported second order polynomial growth

All these data show the direction, but, see following paper:

Science still (2022) needs a firm statement that plants do not exhibit exponential growth from day one.

But this observation should not lead too soon to non-linear modelling, see:

The use of linearity and non-linearity in plant growth analysis