Crop science experiments designed to inform crop modeling

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 170, Issue , 2013, Pages 8-18

  Craufurd, Peter Q ^a   Vadez, Vincent ^a   Jagadish, S V Krishna ^b   Prasad, P V Vara ^c   Zaman Allah, M ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (India)

^b INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Crop models; Crop physiology; Temperature; Transpiration; Water stress

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP IMPROVEMENT; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH MODELING; PHOTOPERIOD; SIMULATION;

EID: 84872957426     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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