Predicting the effects of environment and management on cotton fibre growth and quality: a functional-structural plant modelling approach.

ABSTRACT: In general, the quality of fruits depends on local conditions experienced by the fruit during its development. In cotton, fruit quality, and more specifically the quality of the fibre in the fruit, depends on interactions between fruit position in the plant architecture, temperature and agronomic practices, such as sowing time, mulching with plastic film and topping of the plant's main stem and branches. To quantify this response of cotton fibre quality to environment and management, we developed a simulation model of cotton growth and development, CottonXL. Simulation of cotton fibre quality (strength, length and micronaire) was implemented at the level of each individual fruit, in relation to thermal time (represented by physiological age of the fruit) and prevailing temperature during d

SUBMITTER: Wang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4224667 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature