COMPUTER MODEL OF FRUIT TREES FLOWERING

A linear box-chain model has been set up, which furnishes the time evolution of fruit trees flowers through 9 phenophases; the physiological and environmental effects are included into two series of 9 parameters giving for each phenophase the rate of passage (R_i) and the rate of fall (F_i).

After experimental field results have been presented, the analitical solution to the basic differential equation is described.
Finally, results concerning simulations and comparison with experimental data are given.

I International Symposium on Computer Modelling in Fruit Research and Orchard Management

M. SEVERINI, G. TONNA, F. CARDILLO

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1986.184.9