대두의 엽면적은 수량과 높은 상관관계가 있고 그의 간이측정법은 매우 의의 깊은 일이므로 포장에서 생체대로엽면적을 측정할 수 있도록 간이측정법을 고안하였다. 대두의 3개품종 감안, 동산 006, patten을 재료로 절위별로, 규소엽과 측소엽별로 엽면적과 엽장, 최대엽폭과의 관계를 조사, 실험하였으며 총공시엽수는 2246매이었다. 대두의 규소엽의 면적은 (엽장× 최대엽폭)×0.658, 측소엽의 면적은 (엽장 × 최대엽폭)× 0.683에 의해서 구할수 있음을 알았다. 즉, 규소엽장에 최대엽폭을 곱한 적에 수수 0.683를 곱합음로써 전처리구에서 planimeter에 의한 엽면적과 높은 상관관계를 보였고 이때의 상관계수 r의 평균은 0.994이었다. 그리고 측소엽장에 최대엽폭을 곱한 적에 계수 0.683을 곱함으로써 전처리구에서 planimeter에 의하여 구한 엽면적과 높은 상관관계를 보이고 또한 상관계수 r의 평균은 0.996이였다. 이방법에 의하면 시간과 노력을 크게 절감시킬수 있을 뿐만아니라 생체대로 쉽게 엽면적을 구할수 있는 이점이 있다.

The importance of leaf area as related to transpiration and photosynthesis is generally recognized. In general, a compound leaf of soybean consist of one main leaflet and two side leaflets from each node of the stem. Takahashi and Fukuyama (1919) classified soybeans into three types, namely the long leaf type, round leaf type, and intermediate type, in which the last one had round leaves at the base and long leaves in the upper part of the stem. Nagai (1925) and Takahashi (1935). dealt with the genetics of the leaf form and association with other characters. The closely relationships, the correlation coefficients from 0.64 to 0.73, were shown between the leaf area and the soybean yield in the experiments by Nagai (1942). Nagata (1950) also tested the varietal differences of the variation of leaf length and its ratio to the leaf width on the nodes of stem, and finally divided varieties into five types. Three methods of measuring area of strawberry leaves were used by Darrow (1932). The first involved determining a factor to be used with length or length ~times width measurements. The second method involved placing leaves on pieces of cardboard of known area cut to the shape of the leaves. Direct use of the planimeter on intact leaves was Darrow's third method. Miller (1938) enumerated several methods to determine the leaf surface area in plants, some of which were extremely laborious and required removing leaves from plants. They included tracing outlines of leaves on paper and measuring the enclosed area with a planimeter or cutting out the traced areas and comparing the weights obtained with the weight of a known paper. Another method involved placing the form of the leaf on sensitized paper with the area being determined by measuring or weighing as above. Miller further stated that the photoelectric cell can also be utilized to estitmate leaf area. Working with field beans, Davis (1940) found that 0.004517 (length ~times width) of the center leaflet was the most nearly accurate of four methods attempted. A simple procedure to measure leaf area in corn was devised 1 y Montgomery (1911) and used by Kiesselbach (1950). The formula was length ~times width ~times 0.75. Stickler et al. (1961) have successfully used length times width ~times 0.747 to estimate area of grain sorghum leaves. Bhan and Pande(1966) has also used length ~times width ~times 0.802 to determine leaf area of rice varieties. The main objectives of the present investigation were to develop an accurate, rapid method to determine leaf area in soybean varieties and to examine certain data associated with leaf area determinations.

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