Because of global land surface warming, extreme temperature events are expected to occur
more often and more intensely, affecting the growth and development of the major cereal …

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is often considered as a drought sensitive crop and its
sustainable production is threatened due to frequent drought episodes. There has been …

Myriad definitions have been used for the term heat stress, but here it is defined as a
deleterious response to elevated temperature. For cereal crops, heat stress reduces yield or …

A primary objective of the Earth Observing System (EOS) is to develop and validate
algorithms to estimate leaf area index (L), fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the various aspects of radiation use efficiency
(RUE). Topics that are covered include theoretical analyses, experimental determination …

Drought stress reduces yield of maize (Zea mays L.) and other grain crops by (i) reducing
canopy absorption of incident photosynthetically active radiation (PAR),(ii) reducing …

The objective of this analysis was to use a simple, mechanistic crop growth model to
examine the effects of variation in solar radiation and temperature on potential maize (Zea …

A model of crop primary production, which was originally developed to relate the amount of
absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (APAR) to net production in field studies, is …

Vegetation light use efficiency is a key physiological parameter at the canopy scale, and at
the daily time step is a component of remote sensing algorithms for scaling gross primary …

Temperature is a critical environmental factor regulating plant growth and yield. Corn is a
major agronomic crop produced globally over a vast geographic region, and highly variable …