A method was developed for scaling-up the AFRCWHEAT2 model of phenological development from the site to the continental scale. Four issues were addressed in this methodology: (i) the estimation of daily climatic data from monthly values, (ii) the estimation of spatially variable sowing dates, (iii) the simulation of multiple cultivars, and (iv) the validation of broad-scale models. Three method...

Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) may contribute to the agro-ecological transition of cropping systems in Europe, but its productivity is severely affected by summer drought. New drought-avoidance strategies, such as early sowing, require cultivars with high plant growth under suboptimal conditions. This study aims at phenotyping early-stage root and shoot traits 10 commonly grown Europe. Cultiv...

A group of 98 dams weaned 588 female mice to be mated and allowed to reproduce. These females were assigned at birth to be reared in a litter of eight or 14 mice. Such litters were intended to represent postnatal environments equivalent to small and large litters. However, average litter size was approximately 15 mice in this line and comparisons were more correctly those between small and aver...

A two-year experiment was conducted to determine the optimal combinations of sowing date and variety maturity using four broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) varieties. The results showed that dates had significant effects on leaf net photosynthesis (Pn) chlorophyll fluorescence multivariate analysis variety, date, measuring stage their interactions were in both sites. days from seeding stro...

in order to study of hydropriming, planting depth and nitrogen split application effect on yield and yield components of double cross hybrid of corn, an experiment was carried out as factorial based on randomized complete block design (rcbd) with four replications. nitrogen split application included (400 kg/ha at sowing date, 100 kg/ha at sowing date and 300 kg/ha 25 to 50 days after sowing da...

Spatial monitoring of the sowing date plays an important role in crop yield estimation at the regional scale. The feasibility of using polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data for early season monitoring of the sowing dates of oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) fields is explored in this paper. Polarimetric SAR responses of six parameters, relying on polarization decomposition methods, we...