Introduction
Abstract:
A simple temperature driven model of the fruiting dynamics (Hearn & Da Rosa, 1985) was linked to the widely used Ritchie (1972) soil water balance model. The function describing the processes in the fruiting model were made sensitive to solar radiation, water and nitrogen stress and water logging, and a leaf area generator, a boll growth model and an elementary nitrogen model were included. The model does not simulate fibre quality and can simulate skip-row planting configurations.
The Ozcot cotton model of CSIRO Plant Industry has been adapted to APSIM to form the APSIM Ozcot module. The source code has been provided by -
Dr. A.B. Hearn (1) and Mr. M.P. Bange (2)
(1) CSIRO, Division of Plant Industry, Cotton Research Unit, P.O.Box 59 , Narrabri, NSW 2390 AUSTRALIA .
(2) CSIRO, Australian Cotton Research Institute, P.O.Box 59 , Narrabri, NSW 2390 AUSTRALIA .
Cultivars
There are 20 cultivars able to be simulated:
CS50, CS6S, CS8S, DP16, DP61, DP90, Empr, Kwam, L22, L23, S101, S324, Sc34, Sica, ScV1, ScV2, S189, Si14, Siok, V15
References
Hearn, A.B. & G.D. da Roza, 1985 . A simple model for crop management applications for cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). Field Crops Research 12: 49 -69
Hearn, A.B., 1994 . OZCOT: A simulation model for cotton crop management. Agricultural Systems 44: 257-299
