Journal article
Modeling wheat harvest index as a function of date of anthesis
Life support & biosphere science, Vol.6(4), pp.259-263
1999
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/109883
PMID: 11543264
Abstract
A plant growth model developed by Volk and colleagues was modified to partition plant mass production after anthesis into grain and inedible biomass. Using data on wheat (Triticum aestivum) grown in the NASA CELSS Biomass Production Chamber to supply constants for the model, we showed that delaying the date of anthesis 7 days resulted in a 20% decrease in the harvest index. Multiple model components were then assembled to demonstrate the effect of an environmental system failure.
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- Title
- Modeling wheat harvest index as a function of date of anthesis
- Creators
- M J Pitts - Biological Systems Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-6120, USA. pitts@wsu.eduG W Stutte
- Publication Details
- Life support & biosphere science, Vol.6(4), pp.259-263
- Academic Unit
- Mechanical and Materials Engineering, School of
- Publisher
- United States
- Identifiers
- 99900547200101842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article