A mechanistic model for describing corn plant leaf area distribution

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 41-48

  Yang, Jinzhong ^a   Alley, Mark ^b  

^a SHANXI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FITTING PRECISION; LEAF AREA; LEAF GROWTH RATE; REPRODUCTIVE ORGAN GROWTH;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

E I S; EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS; SIMULATION;

ZEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 13544253512     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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