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Table I
Different relationships between temperature ranges and shoot emergence, and plant and leaf extension rates as a function of different miscanthus species. Data from Clifton-Brown and Jones (1997) (1) and Farrell et al. (2006) (2).
| Shoot emergence rate | Leaf extension rate | Plant extension rate | |||||||||
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| best-fit regression | best-fit regression | best-fit regression | |||||||||
| model | a1 | model | a2 | b2 | model | a3 | b3 | c3 | d3 | ||
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| M. sacchariflorus | linear y = a1x + b1 (2) | 0.008 | exponential  (2) |
0.0007 | 0.4458 | ||||||
| M. giganteus | 0.01 | 0.0032 | 0.354 | ||||||||
| M. sinensis Hybrid 6 | 0.011 | 0.0039 | 0.3485 | ||||||||
| M. sinensis Hybrid 9 | 0.014 | 0.0262 | 0.2434 | ||||||||
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| M.condensatus (n = 1) | y = a2 * PER (1) | 0.72 | third-order polynomial y = a3x3 + b3x2 + c3x + d3 (1) | −0.0002 | 0.0107 | −0.0645 | 0.2070 | ||||
| M. floridulus (n = 2) | 0.81 | −0.0002 | 0.0095 | −0.0574 | 0.1443 | ||||||
| M. saccharifer (n = 2) | 0.88 | −0.0006 | 0.0242 | −0.1800 | 0.4225 | ||||||
| M. sacchariflorus (n = 3) | 0.83 | −0.0002 | 0.0083 | −0.0212 | −0.0323 | ||||||
| M. giganteus (n = 2) | 0.85 | −0.0002 | 0.0084 | −0.0099 | −0.0990 | ||||||
| M. sinensis (n = 21) | mean | 0.83 | −0.0001 | 0.0074 | −0.0237 | 0.0160 | |||||
| min | 0.69 | −0.0004 | −0.0034 | −0.1060 | −0.2950 | ||||||
| max | 0.98 | 0.0002 | 0.0164 | 0.0733 | 0.3050 | ||||||
| M. undine (n = 1) | 0.86 | 0.0001 | −0.0001 | 0.0534 | −0.2130 | ||||||