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Plant development depends on temperature. Plants require a specific amount of heat to develop from one point in their life-cycle to another. The ability to predict a specific crop stage, relative to insect and weed cycles, permits better management. This is especially important when three or more crops are being grown on the same farm, each with a different management schedule for pesticide application, fertility management and harvest. The chapter introduces the concept of growing degree days, and other thermal indices used to study and monitor plant growth.
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Ahmad, L., Habib Kanth, R., Parvaze, S., Sheraz Mahdi, S. (2017). Growing Degree Days to Forecast Crop Stages. In: Experimental Agrometeorology: A Practical Manual. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69185-5_14
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