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THE importance of a knowledge of the special physiology of a crop plant in attempting to improve the yield or quality of the product needs no demonstration. The case for the study of the morphology of the plant is no less clear, and is reinforced by the fact that the two lines of investigation should go hand in hand. There are numerous familiar instances where successful cropping depends upon the correct understanding of morphological principles, and those botanists wise enough to reflect upon the lore of the intelligent practical man are aware that the knowledge possessed by him of the essential morphology of the plants with which he deals is frequently of no mean order.
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Applied Plant Morphology. Nature 104, 578 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/104578a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/104578a0