A model to predict Septoria tritici blotch (STB) and leaf rust effects on wheat growth was constructed and evaluated in two steps. At the leaf scale, Bastiaans' approach that predicts the relative photosynthesis of a wheat leaf infected with a single disease, was extended to the case of two diseases, one biotrophic and one necrotrophic by considering the leaf rust-STB complex. A glasshouse expe...

Substantial equivalence has become established as a foundation concept in the safety evaluation of transgenic crops. In the case of a food and feed crop, no single variety is considered the standard for safety or nutrition, so the substantial equivalence of transgenic crops is investigated relative to the array of commercial crop varieties with a history of safe consumption. Although used exten...

Taking digital construction of crop ideotype as the target, current functional-structural model was improved, which discussed the biomass production, biomass allocation and organ reconstruction, the division of crop organ components and the way of component connections was put forward, and the internal structure of the components was explored to leaf organs as an example. At last, the process o...

Present paper is an application study of intuitionistic fuzzy optimization technique in agricultural production planning problem particularly a case of smallholder farmer in north Bihar, India. Generally, the crop planning problem is formulated as linear programming problems. but in realistic situation there are many uncertain factors in agricultural production planning problems and hence futur...

This study evaluates the watershed-scale effects of non-point-source (NPS) pollution loads caused by rice straw mulching and no-tillage applications in upland crop areas using the Hydrological Simulation Program–Fortran (HSPF) model. The study area is the Byulmi-cheon watershed (1.21 km2) of South Korea. Hourly rainfall, discharge and stream water quality data were collected for three years (20...

Crop models can be useful tools for estimating crop growth status and yield on large spatial domains if their parameters and initial conditions values can be known for each point. By coupling a radiative transfer model with the crop model (through a canopy structure variable like LAI), it is possible to assimilate, for each point of the spatial domain, remote sensing variables (like reflectance...

The monitoring of irrigation requirements at district or regional scale can be based on the use of ecological process-based models and remote sensing data. The former simulates the time evolution (usually at daily scale) of the main biophysical variables which determine crop photosynthesis and water consumption rates; the latter allows to provide the spatial distribution of these variables over...