PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Uher, Jiří
TI  - The effect of chlormequat and paclobutrazol treatment on safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) growth and flowering
DP  - 2014 Nov 14
TA  - Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis
PG  - 251--254
VI  - 56
IP  - 2
AID - 10.11118/actaun200856020251
IS  - 12118516
AB  - The responses of six safflower varieties (Carthamus tinctorius L.) to chlormequat and paclobutrazol treatments were monitored. Although a chlormequat application did not bring about any significant differences in flowering or morphological traits, plants treated with paclobutrazol were shorter and had a higher number of flower heads. However, contrary to expectations, treatment by paclobutrazol also made flowering earlier. This does not appear to support the idea that safflower is a typical long-day plant, progressing to floral induction and stem elongation after vernalization in the winter at the leaf-rosette stage).