Effect of cover crops on maize-velvet leaf competition: leaf area density and light interception

The scaling of leaf area and mass: the cost of light interception increases with leaf size.

For leaves, the light-capturing surface area per unit dry mass investment (specific leaf area, SLA) is a key trait from physiological, ecological and biophysical perspectives. To address whether SLA declines with leaf size, as hypothesized due to increasing costs of support in larger leaves, we compiled data on intraspecific variation in leaf dry mass (LM) and leaf surface area (LA) for 6334 le...

The effect of fruit competition and leaf area on fruit size of strawberry

Effect of leaf orientation and density on yield of corn

effect of cover crops on vertical distribution of leaf area and dry matter of soybean (glycine max l.) in competition with weeds

introduction amount and vertical distribution of leaf area are essential for estimating interception and utilization of solar radiation of crop canopies and, consequently dry matter accumulation (valentinuz & tollenaar, 2006). vertical distribution of leaf area is leaf areas per horizontal layers, based on height (boedhram et al., 2001). above-ground biomass is one of the central traits in func...

Leaf Area and Root Density Measurements for Use in Cover Performance Evaluations on Semi-arid Reclaimed

Evapotranspiration (store and release) soil covers have been proposed as a means to limit acid mine drainage. Soil water balance models, like UNSATH are commonly used to assess the effectiveness of store and release covers. Plant-related attributes are required as inputs to these models. In particular, UNSAT-H requires leaf area index (LAI) and root length density (RLD) inputs. Published LAI an...