management practices can affect the yield, maturity, and fiber quality of cotton. one practice used to increase yield has been to adjust the spacing between cotton rows. typically cotton is planted in row spaced 70-100 cm apart. ultra narrow row cotton production has been proposed as an economical means to increase yields and reduce production costs. a field study was conducted to assess the ef...

Among the plant factors, canopy geometry plays a crucial role in deciding the driving force for leaf biological processes since it modulates canopy interception of short-term radiation fluxes and it controls their distributions throughout the foliage (Monteith and Unsworth, 1990; Jones, 1992). In particular, it is recognized the biological role of PhAR (400-700 nm waveband) in driving the photo...

The effects of albedo, net radiation (Rn), vapor pressure deficit (VPD), and surface conductances on energy fluxes and evapotranspiration (ET) were determined for a wet tropical forest in NE Costa Rica from 1997 to 2000. Sensible heat fluxes (H) were estimated by the combination of eddy-covariance and the change in below-canopy heat profiles. Above-canopy latent heat fluxes (lE) were estimated ...

Photosynthesis is an important physiological response for determination of CO₂ fertilization in greenhouses and estimation of crop growth. In order to estimate the whole plant photosynthetic rate, it is necessary to investigate how light interception by crops changes with environmental and morphological factors. The objectives of this study were to analyze plant light interception using a three...

To further development of a simplified fertigation system using controlled-release fertilizers (CRF), we investigated the effects of differing levels of fertilizers and plant density on leaf area index (LAI), fruit yields, and nutrient use in soilless tomato cultures with low node-order pinching and high plant density during spring-summer (SS), summer-fall (SF), and fall-winter (FW) seasons. Pl...