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Physiological models of grass growth

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The Grass Crop

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A mathematical model can be thought of as a concise mechanism for providing a numerical description of a process or an object. In agriculture, models are usually concerned with processes, which may be associated with problems as different as economic issues and the biochemistry of nitrate reduction. In this chapter we shall be concerned with modelling the growth of the grass crop using physiological data.

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Sheeby, J.E., Johnson, I.R. (1988). Physiological models of grass growth. In: Jones, M.B., Lazenby, A. (eds) The Grass Crop. The Grass Crop. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1187-1_7

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