Physiological models of grass growth
Published 1 January 1988
J. E. Sheeby, I. R. Johnson
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This chapter is concerned with modelling the growth of the grass crop using physiological data and the biochemistry of nitrate reduction.
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A mathematical model can be thought of as a concise mechanism for providing a numerical description of a process or an object. In agriculture, models are usually concerned with processes, which may be associated with problems as different as economic issues and the biochemistry of nitrate reduction. In this chapter we shall be concerned with modelling the growth of the grass crop using physiological data.KeywordsWater StressPhotosynthetically Active RadiationSpecific Leaf AreaTall FescuePerennial RyegrassThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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