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... Field beans (Vicia faba L.) are the most extensively grown grain legume in the UK but their contribution to farming and food systems could be improved if their yields were enhanced. Average on‐farm bean yields have varied between 3 and 4 t ha⁻¹ for four decades but with much variation between individual crops. A “Bean Yield Enhancement Network” (Bean YEN) was initiated in 2019, supported by indust ...
... Stiltgrass (Microstegium vimineum [Trin.] A. Camus) is an annual C₄ grass of Asian origin whose native range includes India, Pakistan, Nepal, China, Korea, and Japan (Cole et al. 2004). In China, it is mainly distributed south of the Yangtze River, and is an important weed in autumn-maturing dryland crops, orchards, tea gardens, and plantations. With its high shade tolerance, it also invades fores ...
... The leakage of natural gas storage has a significant impact on economy, personal safety and natural environment. When the leakage is slight, the effect of direct detection is not ideal. Hyperspectral remote sensing can detect it indirectly through the spectral changes of surface vegetation. In this study, wheat, bean and grass were used as surface experimental objects to analyse the variation char ...
... The work aimed to discriminate among different soil management treatments in terms of beneficial effects by high-resolution thermal and spectral vegetation imagery using an unmanned aerial vehicle and open-source GIS software. Five soil management treatments were applied in two organic vineyards (cv. Sangiovese) from Chianti Classico terroir (Tuscany, Italy) during two experimental years. The trea ...
Jaqueline Sgarbossa; Elvis Felipe Elli; Felipe Schwerz; Claiton Nardini; Fábio Miguel Knapp; Denise Schmidt; Alessandro Dal’Col Lúcio; Braulio Otomar Caron
agroforestry; agronomy; beans; canopy; forests; leaf area; leaf mass; microclimate; net assimilation rate; plant communities; radiation use efficiency; solar radiation; soybeans; specific leaf area; trees; understory; Brazil
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... Simultaneous cultivation of agricultural and forest species may result in changes in plant community interactions, generating microclimatic changes within the understory and then modifying growth and yield characteristics of the intercropping systems. Thus, this study aimed to assess the radiation use efficiency, growth and yield of bean and soybean cultivated in succession under two arrangements ...
Phaseolus vulgaris; beans; canopy; color; cultivars; drought; field capacity; heat stress; humidity; night temperature; phenotype; research
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... Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) grain filling is vulnerable to drought and heat stress. The objective of the study was to evaluate the effect of humidity restriction, high night temperatures and their combination in common bean. The plants were grown in pots at maximum field capacity (100% FC) until the grain filling began. Afterwards, maintained until harvest at: 1) 100% FC, 2) 50% FC at ambi ...
... Foliar application of fertilizers can guarantee nutrient availability to beans, leading to higher yield and seed quality. Different approaches including glycine have been used to improve mineral nutrient status of plants toward safer products and improved human health. However, limited research has been undertaken to understand the response of beans to amino Zn and Mg foliar fertilizer application ...
... Grain legumes including common bean are mostly grown in rainfed production systems and invariably suffer from water stress at critical growth stages leading to significant yield reductions. Drought is one of the most importantstress limiting common bean productivity. The yield has been the primary breeding objective and has been improved by either targeting yield per se as well as yield components ...
Coffea arabica; acclimation; beans; caffeine; canopy; cell respiration; chlorogenic acid; coffee beans; face; free air carbon dioxide enrichment; gas exchange; leaves; microclimate; photosynthesis; soil water; stomatal conductance; sugars; temperature; water shortages; water use efficiency
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... Leaves in different positions respond differently to dynamic fluctuations in light availability, temperature and to multiple environmental stresses. The current hypothesis states that elevated atmospheric CO2 (e[CO2]) can compensate for the negative effects of water scarcity regarding leaf gas exchanges and coffee bean quality traits over the canopy vertical profile, in interactions with light and ...
... A soil coring protocol was developed to cooptimize the estimation of root length distribution (RLD) by depth and detection of functionally important variation in root system architecture (RSA) of maize and bean. The functional-structural model OpenSimRoot was used to perform in silico soil coring at six locations on three different maize and bean RSA phenotypes. Results were compared to two season ...
... Leaf area index (LAI) is an essential indicator of crop development and growth. For many agricultural applications, satellite-based LAI estimates at the farm-level often require near-daily imagery at medium to high spatial resolution. The combination of data from different ongoing satellite missions, Sentinel 2 (ESA) and Landsat 8 (NASA), provides this opportunity. In this study, we evaluated the ...
Víctor Resco de Dios; William R.L. Anderegg; Ximeng Li; David T. Tissue; Michael Bahn; Damien Landais; Alexandru Milcu; Yinan Yao; Rachael H. Nolan; Jacques Roy; Arthur Gessler
... The circadian clock is a molecular timer of metabolism that affects the diurnal pattern of stomatal conductance (gₛ), amongst other processes, in a broad array of plant species. The function of circadian gₛ regulation remains unknown and here, we test whether circadian regulation helps to optimize diurnal variations in stomatal conductance. We subjected bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) and cotton (Gossyp ...
... Intercropping with maize (Zea mays L.) and common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is one of the widely used practices of producing food crops on smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, the knowledge on the options toward intensification of available practices in order to optimize systems productivity using intercrops is generally lacking. Therefore, this study evaluated the effects of ...
analysis of variance; beans; canopy; corn; environmental impact; field experimentation; grasses; monitoring; natural gas; phenology; remote sensing; vegetation
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... The leakage of natural gas from underground storages can cause economic, safety, and ecological problems. However, when the leakage is slight, the gas concentration in surface atmosphere cannot reach the threshold for direct monitoring. Hyperspectral remote sensing can indirectly detect it through the spectral changes of vegetation in the leak area. A field experiment was performed, which took bea ...
Phaseolus vulgaris; altitude; beans; canopy; crop yield; growth habit; latitude; leaf area; leaves; nitrogen; photosynthesis; plant density; solar radiation; temperature
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... Crop yield requires leaf area to intercept solar radiation and to undertake photosynthesis, both of which depend on nitrogen (N) accumulation. Further, the amount of accumulated plant N at the beginning of seed fill serves as the reservoir for N required in synthesizing the proteins in developing seeds. For common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), resolution of the basic characteristics limiting produ ...
Phaseolus vulgaris; antioxidants; beans; biochemistry; canopy; chlorophyll; crops; deficit irrigation; genotype; leaf area index; leaves; lipid peroxidation; phenology; photosynthetically active radiation; radiation use efficiency; seed yield; semiarid zones; stomatal conductance; temperature; water content; water resources; water stress; water use efficiency; Iran
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... About 90% of Iran extends over arid and semi-arid areas where drought stress is inevitably suffered by crops such as common bean. Due to limitations in water resources and importance of common bean in Iran, it is essential to evaluate common bean under water-deficit condition. The objective of this study was to determine effects of deficit irrigation on the yield, physiology and biochemistry of tw ...
... The common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is a major food legume cultivated by smallholder farmers in the tropics of Latin America and eastern and southern Africa. Acid soil and high temperature limit its production. Here we quantify differences in agronomical, phenological and physiological performance of common bean lines in order to identify promising lines with adaptation to acid soils and high ...
... Agricultural intensification in the mountains of Central America has increased soil vulnerability to erosion by water. This study was undertaken to analyse the erosion that affects the mixed cultivation of maize and beans at two stages of the crop development cycle (at 3 and 6 months after sowing) in southern Guatemala, together with the influence of the ground and crop canopy vegetal cover on soi ...
... To study the effect of soil application of potassium humate (KH) (0, 70 and 140 Kg ha⁻¹) on agronomic, biochemical attributes, and yield and its components on bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) cultivars ‘Bronco’ grown under two sites having different level of salinity (EC = 3.00 or 5.00 ± 0.20 dS m⁻¹). Two field trials were conducted at the Agriculture Test Station, Faculty of Agriculture, Fayoum Unive ...
Coffea arabica; Coffea canephora; beans; beverages; branches; canopy; crop production; ecosystem services; flowers; fruit set; fruits; nitrogen; open pollination; plantations; pollen; seed predation; shade; trees; Puerto Rico
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... Since the early 2000s, there has been a resurgence in shade coffee production on the island of Puerto Rico. The newly restored specialized shade canopy consists of four native tree species, three of which are nitrogen fixers, and is intended to provide 30% shade cover once the trees are matured. Though much is known about the benefits of rustic and traditional shade plantations to coffee productio ...
Víctor Resco de Dios; Arthur Gessler; Juan Pedro Ferrio; Josu G. Alday; Michael Bahn; Jorge del Castillo; Sébastien Devidal; Sonia García-Muñoz; Zachary Kayler; Damien Landais; Paula Martín-Gómez; Alexandru Milcu; Clément Piel; Karin Pirhofer-Walzl; Olivier Ravel; Serajis Salekin; David T. Tissue; Mark G. Tjoelker; Jordi Voltas; Jacques Roy
... Studies on the dependence of the rates of ecosystem gas exchange on environmental parameters often rely on the up-scaling of leaf-level response curves (‘bottom-up’ approach), and/or the down-scaling of ecosystem fluxes (‘top-down’ approach), where one takes advantage of the natural diurnal covariation between the parameter of interest and photosynthesis rates. Partly independent from environmenta ...
... Cover crops have been shown to deplete soil nitrate and reduce nitrate leaching in Mediterranean climates. Cover crop canopy development, N uptake, and root system development were studied during three rainy seasons in Yolo silt loam and Rincon silty clay loam soils, with two cover crops with contrasting root systems and N acquisition strategies: triticale (× Triticosecale), a monocot wheat (Triti ...
José Ignacio García‐Plazaola; Beatriz Fernández‐Marín; Juan Pedro Ferrio; Josu G. Alday; Günter Hoch; Damien Landais; Alexandru Milcu; David T. Tissue; Jordi Voltas; Arthur Gessler; Jacques Roy; Víctor Resco de Dios
... There is increasing evidence that the circadian clock is a significant driver of photosynthesis that becomes apparent when environmental cues are experimentally held constant. We studied whether the composition of photosynthetic pigments is under circadian regulation, and whether pigment oscillations lead to rhythmic changes in photochemical efficiency. To address these questions, we maintained ca ...
Arthur Gessler; Jacques Roy; Zachary Kayler; Juan Pedro Ferrio; Josu G. Alday; Michael Bahn; Jorge del Castillo; Sébastien Devidal; Sonia García-Muñoz; Damien Landais; Paula Martín-Gomez; Alexandru Milcu; Clément Piel; Karin Pirhofer-Walzl; Lucia Galiano; Marcus Schaub; Matthias Haeni; Olivier Ravel; Serajis Salekin; David T. Tissue; Mark G. Tjoelker; Jordi Voltas; Günter Hoch; Víctor Resco de Dios
... The potential of the vegetation to sequester C is determined by the balance between assimilation and respiration. Respiration is under environmental and substrate-driven control, but the circadian clock might also contribute.To assess circadian control on night-time dark respiration (RD) and on light enhanced dark respiration (LEDR) – the latter providing information on the metabolic reorganizatio ...
... Increasing the genetic base of current parental cacao varieties grown in West Africa with clones that are able to perform well under marginal conditions could improve cacao production. Survival and yield of 30 different cocoa clones of more recent introductions were compared with five parental clones of improved cocoa varieties under natural field conditions in Ghana. A randomized complete-block d ...
... Crop canopy characteristics and management factors that affect the canopy structure can influence crop competitive ability against weeds. The goal of the current study was to understand the interaction between nitrogen (N) fertilizer rate and redroot pigweed (Amaranthus retroflexus) density on common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) canopy characteristics and N assimilation. Experiments were conducted ...
... Amblydromalus limonicus (Garman and McGregor) was detected for the first time in 2011 on tomatoes of several locations of the northeastern Spain. During 2012 and 2013 samplings on tomato crop cultivars in the two provinces of Catalonia where the species was found were carried out. The goals of the study were to know the range of spread of the species in these two provinces, its abundance in tomato ...
air; beans; canopy; deficit irrigation; field experimentation; humidity; irrigation rates; leaf angle; leaf conductance; mathematical models; mesophyll; model validation; prediction; principal component analysis; soil; stomata; temperature; water stress
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... To date, measuring plant transpiration at canopy scale is laborious and its estimation by numerical modelling can be used to assess high time frequency data. When using the model by Jacobs (1994) to simulate transpiration of water stressed plants it needs to be reparametrized. We compare the importance of model variables affecting simulated transpiration of water stressed plants. A systematic lite ...
Vicia faba; beans; canopy; carbon dioxide; carbon sequestration; field experimentation; global warming; grasses; greenhouse gas emissions; monitoring; plant growth; remote sensing; soil; spectral analysis
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... CCS (carbon capture and storage) is a technique that can effectively reduce CO2 emissions released into the atmosphere from industrial activities and mitigate global climate warming. However, the captured CO2 may leak from the underground storage, so a novel way of rapidly detecting points of CO2 leakage in sequestration fields is needed. A field experiment was performed at the Sutton Bonington Ca ...
... In relay intercropping systems, late-planted crops often grow under the shade of the canopy of early-planted tall crops and then transfer to full sunlight after the harvest of the early-planted crops. In order to know the effects of recovery growth of the late-planted soya bean in maize–soya bean relay intercropping, a field experiment was carried out to observe architectural, morphological, physi ...
... Sowing density is a major management factor that affects growth and development of grain crops by modifying the canopy light environment and interplant competition for water and nutrients. While the effects of density and plant architecture on static vegetative and reproductive growth traits have been explored previously in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), there are no reports of intensive mea ...
... Common bean (Phaseolus vulagaris L.) is mainly produced in Latin America, and Eastern and Southern Africa where seasonal rainfall is erratic and soil moisture deficit often limits its production. The objectives of this study were to identify superior advanced small red common bean lines with better grain yield under drought, and to identify plant traits that could serve as selection criteria for e ...
beans; canopy; deficit irrigation; models; prediction; soil water; temperature; transpiration; water stress; Brazil
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... Plant water stress is linked to both above- and below-surface parameters; with above-surface parameters being generally easier to measure. Models utilizing above-surface parameters, such as canopy temperature to identify plant water stress, frequently employ the crop water stress index (CWSI). Alternatively, the regular usage of the transpiration reduction function (FRF), as proposed by Feddes in ...
Helianthus annuus; Populus deltoides; Ulmus; agroecosystems; allelochemicals; beans; canopy; corn; crops; germination; land productivity; phenolic acids; soil; soil sampling; trees; India
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... The performance of maize, beans and sunflower was evaluated under a canopy of Populus deltoides and Ulmus wallichiana at Faculty of Agriculture, Wadura. The germination, growth and yield of the three test crops were suppressed under both tree species. The reduction, however, decreased when the cultivation of test crops was continued for three years. The inhibition potential generally is in the ord ...
beans; canopy; carbon; correlation; cultivars; drought; drought tolerance; dry matter partitioning; flowering; gas exchange; irrigation rates; isotopes; leaf area index; leaves; seed yield; seeds; transpiration; water stress; water use efficiency
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... Drought is a major yield constraint of crop productivity. Determining physiological traits involved in the response of common bean to drought stress could lead to improving drought tolerance. A two-year study (2008 and 2009) was carried out to determine the physiological traits that are associated with drought tolerance for maximum dry bean seed yield (SY), and water use efficiency (WUE) in northe ...
... Leaf senescence and its concomitant remobilization of nutrients supplies part of seed demand, and leaf decay also contributes to nutrient cycling. However, a nutrient budget of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) crop that considers senescent leaves is lacking. The purpose of this study was to measure the amounts of N and P in senescent leaves of common bean cultivars and their contribution to the cr ...
... In Tasmania, Australia, if more than 5% of bean pods are affected by white mould (Sclerotinia sclerotiorum) shipments may be rejected by the processor. This standard dictates prophylactic fungicide application over flowering, although in some instances treatment may not be warranted because of low disease risk. Surveys were conducted to identify relationships among edaphic factors, weather variabl ...
... Gray leaf spot is one of the most important yield-limiting diseases of maize (Zea mays L.) and it is more severe in reduced tillage cropping where over-seasoning soilborne inoculum from infected crop debris provides primary inoculum for infection of the newly planted maize. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of intercropped beans on movement of soil surface inoculum and its ...
... The tree Acacia dealbata Link is an Australian woody legume that has become a serious environmental problem in Northwest Spain, where its expansion is assumed to reduce populations of native species and threaten local plant biodiversity. In order to investigate the potential involvement of allelopathic mechanisms in this process, net photosynthetic and respiration rates of four test native underst ...
... Merlot, Cabernet franc, and Cabernet Sauvignon vines in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, were subjected to four treatments in a randomized complete block experiment: hedged control, cluster thinning at veraison (CT), basal leaf removal (BLR), and CT+BLR. Musts from each treatment replicate (CT+BLR excepted) were thereafter either left untreated or treated with one of ColorPro or Color X enzymes. In m ...
... Crop management practices can affect the population of phytophagous pest species and beneficial arthropods with consequences for integrated pest management. In this study, we determined the effect of no-tillage and crop residue management on the arthropod community associated with the canopy of common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). Abundance and species composition of herbivorous, detritivorous, p ...
... In plantation crops, perennial tropical legumes are grown as understory plants, where they receive limited irradiance and can be subjected to elevated levels of CO2. Independent short-term effects of photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD), external carbon dioxide concentration [CO2] and temperature on net photosynthesis (Pn), internal CO2 (Ci), stomatal conductance (Gs) and transpiration (E) we ...
sediment yield; beans; no-tillage; Water Erosion Prediction Project; model validation; land use; agricultural watersheds; plant residues; atmospheric precipitation; surface roughness; monitoring; corn; erosion control; land cover; shear stress; erodibility; crop rotation; hydraulic conductivity; canopy; long term effects; cover crops; streams; soil erosion; Iowa
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... The overarching objective of this research was to provide an improved understanding of the role of land use and associated management practices on long-term water-driven soil erosion in small agricultural watersheds by coupling the established, physically based, distributed parameter Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) model with long-term hydrologic, land use and soil data. A key step towards ...
... Plant leaf area is an important physiological trait, and direct, non-destructive methods for estimating leaf area have been shown to be effective while allowing for repeated plant sampling. The objective of this study was to evaluate direct, non-destructive leaflet measurements as predictors of actual leaflet area (LA), to test previously developed models, and to develop genotype-specific linear m ...
... To investigate nematode establishment and persistence, dauer juveniles (DJs) of Heterorhabditis bacteriophora were applied at 50 cm⁻² in different crops in June and July with conventional spraying equipment and 420 l water ha⁻¹. Application hardly had any effects on survival and infectivity. The number of DJs reaching the soil was assessed and the establishment and persistence recorded by baiting ...
Hevea brasiliensis; cultivars; leaf area index; dry matter accumulation; agroforestry; mixed cropping; Phaseolus vulgaris; beans; tree tapping; rubber; latex; canopy; crop yield; ecophysiology; Brazil
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... Understanding resource capture can help design appropriate species combinations, planting designs and management. Leaf area index (LAI) and its longevity are the most important factors defining dry matter production and thus growth and productivity. The ecophysiological modifications and yield of rubber (Hevea spp.) in an agroforestry system (AFS) with beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) were studied. T ...
... Most methods of measuring the diffusive conductance to water vapor of individual plant leaves potentially change the leaf environment by enclosing part of the leaf in order to measure the rate of water vapor exchange and the driving force for that exchange. There have been questions about whether leaf to air water vapor pressure difference varies sufficiently in extensive crop canopies to be a sig ...
... An experiment on the selection of Rhizobium strain from Wonogiri, Central Java on the growth of soybean (Glycine max L.) on the sand sterile medium in green house. The aim of the experiment the selection and potency of the Rhizobium strain to increase the growth of soybean. The experiment was carried out in green house condition in Microbiology Division, Research Center for Biology-LIPI with steri ...
... Greater leaf thickness is usually associated with greater leaf carbon assimilation rate, but the tradeoff between thicker versus larger leaves also affects canopy structure and light interception. Many studies equate the ratio of dry leaf mass to area (leaf specific mass) with leaf thickness. This approximation has utility but ignores differences in true thickness due to variation in water or air ...
Phaseolus vulgaris; agronomy; alternative crops; beans; biomass production; canopy; case studies; crop models; dry matter accumulation; land evaluation; leaf area index; leaf development; leaves; model validation; photosynthesis; solar radiation; temperature; vegetative growth; Rwanda
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... This paper describes the modeling procedures activated when assessing potential biomass production using the Daily Crop Growth Simulator (DAICROS). Under optimal water and nutrient supply, the main physiological processes governing crop growth are photosynthesis, respiration, and leaf expansion. Simulation of the gross photosynthesis rate involves, among others, assessment of the maximum photosynt ...
... The influence of alley cropping practices on trees, agricultural crops and arthropod diversity was studied in Duzce, Turkey. Six replications of three crops, maize (Zea mays L. var. rugosa), beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and zucchini (Cucurbita pepo L.), were planted in the alleyways between rows of hybrid poplar [Populus euramericana (Dode) Guinier] in a plantation setting. Control plots included ...
... Application of crop models to plant breeding has been limited, in part due to the restricted capabilities of models to accurately represent genetic differences and genotype-induced crop responses. A gene-based model, GeneGro, was developed to simulate the effects of seven genes on growth and developmental processes in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and was published in 1996. The objective of ...
Phaseolus vulgaris; agronomy; beans; canopy; field experimentation; leaf area index; plant growth
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... Measurement of leaf area index (LAI) is important in studies of plant growth. Based on this concept, the analysis of crop growth has moved from classical growth analysis to mechanistic models, via functional growth analysis. Leaf area index is a major variable in mechanistic crop growth models and in models that attempt to simulate loss caused by pathogens. A field experiment was carried out from ...
... The effect of irrigation, nitrogen fertiliser and planting density on green leaf area index under field conditions was determined. Field experiments were carried out at Sonning (UK) in summer 1992, and two experiments at Kabete, Kenya from November 1992 to February 1993 (K1) and from February to May 1993 (K2) using beans (Phaseolus vulgaris var. Mwezi Moja). The treatments included two irrigation ...
... Photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD) fluctuations were quantified in crops of beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) in the field as the canopy developed between July and October. Two different methods were used to select sunflecks and shadeflecks. Four ranges of zenith angles (60-70 degrees, 50-60 degrees, 40-50 degrees and 30-40 degrees) were selected for analysing PPFD fluctuations. At the base of ...
... Remote measurements of leaf temperature offer a quick means of measuring individual leaf or canopy temperatures. The spatial area measured depends on the viewing angle of the infrared thermometer. This study was designed to evaluate the measurement of leaf temperature with attached vs remote measurements for a field row crop and to determine the relationship between angular and vertical temperatur ...