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From: Gusman Guy <ggusman at ULB.AC.BE>
Subject: Re: Secondary leaves in first growth cycle

Any photo of them ?
Gusman

>  I don't know if this is common or what, but it shocked me, and I would=like to know more about it. I had thought that only an eophyll was prese=nt in the first growth cycle of germinated seed, but now I have 2 instanc=es of secondary leaves growing out as well.
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> 1 Of 10 seeds of A flavum planted on 10/29/06, all germinated by 11/19/=06. On 12/20/06, I noticed that in 2 instances, small secondary leaves we=re growing up alongside the eophylls. These looked exactly like the eophy=ll but smaller. When the plants went dormant in late January, tubers were=harvested, but no difference was seen in these 2 versus the rest.
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> 2 34 seeds of A consanguineum were planted on 11/30/06, of these, 31 ha=d germinated by 1/12/07. On 3 21/07, I noticed secondary growth on 3 of t=hese. As of yesterday, 6 plants have shown secondary growth. 4 plants hav=e 1 extra leaf, 1 has 2 , and 1 has 3 extra leaves. These do not look lik=e the eophylls, but are very long and narrow, looking like blades of gras=s, and quite small compared to the eophyll. These plants are all still in=active growth.
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> So far, seeds of 8 other species I have germinated have not shown any o=f these extra growths.
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> Is this something that frequently occurs, or is it possibly an effect o=f my growing conditions? I have them under lights (12 hours on) at a fair=ly cool temperature of about 60-62 F.
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> George
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