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Equilibrium and Balanced Growth of a Vegetative Crop

Author(s) -

Ido Seginer

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

annals of botany

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.567

H-Index - 176

eISSN - 1095-8290

pISSN - 0305-7364

DOI - 10.1093/aob/mch021

Subject(s) - shoot , growth rate , relative growth rate , sink (geography) , nitrate , nitrogen , exponential growth , biology , nutrient , horticulture , agronomy , botany , chemistry , ecology , mathematics , mathematical analysis , geometry , cartography , organic chemistry , geography

A previously developed dynamic model, NICOLET, designed to predict growth and nitrate content of a lettuce crop, is subjected to (virtual) constant environmental conditions. For every combination of shoot and root environment, the cell sap, here assumed to reside in the "vacuole" compartment, equilibrates at a certain nitrate concentration level. This, in turn, defines the composition of the crop in terms of carbon and nitrogen content in each of the three compartments of the model. Growth under constant environmental conditions is defined as "equilibrium" growth (EG). If, in addition, the source strengths of carbon and nitrogen balance each other, as well as the sink strength of the growing crop, the growth is said to be "balanced" (BG).

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