Completing the picture of field-grown cereal crops: a new method for detailed leaf surface models in wheat.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The leaf angle distribution (LAD) is an important structural parameter of agricultural crops that influences light interception, radiation fluxes and consequently plant performance. Therefore, LAD and its parametrized form, the Beta distribution, is used in many photosynthesis models. However, in field cultivations, these parameters are difficult to assess and cereal crops in particular pose challenges since their leaves are thin, flexible, and often bent and twisted around their own axis. To our knowledge, there is only a very limited set of methods currently available to calculate LADs of field-grown cereal crops that explicitly takes these special morphological properties into account.

Results

In this study, a new processing pipeline is introduced that allows f

SUBMITTER: Theiß M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10837940 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature