Population Modeling Approach to Optimize Crop Harvest Strategy. The Case of Field Tomato.

ABSTRACT: In this study, the aim is to develop a population model based approach to optimize fruit harvesting strategies with regard to fruit quality and its derived economic value. This approach was applied to the case of tomato fruit harvesting under Vietnamese conditions. Fruit growth and development of tomato (cv. "Savior") was monitored in terms of fruit size and color during both the Vietnamese winter and summer growing seasons. A kinetic tomato fruit growth model was applied to quantify biological fruit-to-fruit variation in terms of their physiological maturation. This model was successfully calibrated. Finally, the model was extended to translate the fruit-to-fruit variation at harvest into the economic value of the harvested crop. It can be concluded that a model based approach to the opti

SUBMITTER: Tran DT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5397500 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature