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In whole plant or crop models, plants are often divided into organs e.g. shoots and roots. It is often convenient to divide these organs into two further compartments — structural and storage material (Warren Wilson, 1972; Thornley, 1977). Little is known about the kinetic parameters for partitioning assimilate between the compartments. A within-organ model by Thornley (1977) involved the division of structural materials into degradable and non-degradable components though experimentally-derived values of rate parameters were not available. Barnes and Hole (1978) showed that, based on Thornley’s (1977) model, respiration could still be described as consisting of two processes — growth and maintenance — and estimates of the parameters were made. Farrar (1980) and Prosser and Farrar (1981) estimated parameters of a three compartment model consisting of soluble, storage and structural carbon.
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Hansen, G.K., Svendsen, H. (1985). Assimilate Partitioning and Utilization During Vegetative Growth. In: Day, W., Atkin, R.K. (eds) Wheat Growth and Modelling. NATO ASI Science, vol 86. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3665-3_17
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