Some functions that I have been developing to implement crop growth models in R. The models are based on scritps originally programmed in FORTRAN and made available by professors Fábio R. Marin (ESALQ / USP) and Quirijn de Jong van Lier (ESALQ / CENA-USP ) in the lecture "1100222-2019 - Crop Growth Models". This project also includes unpublished functions, many of which are still under development and validation. Any suggestions, tips and help are welcome.
Fore more details, please contact us at germano.cneto@usp.br (Germano Costa Neto, PhD student)
Some of the functions can be adapted for a wide range of crops (they arent crop-specific), that is, they are of generic use. However, this project aims to develop functions to support maize breeders, with emphasis on its use in tropical agro-systems. We will program routines aiming the prediction of the phenotype-environmental profile and its integration in protocols of genomic prediction and field phenotyping.
If you are interested in this subject, feel free to contact us with a view to contributing to this project.
Next steps will include the integration of CGMs with whole genome predictions (using whole-genome SNPs) and its applications for breeding decision making under environmental-limited conditions