relation: http://miis.maths.ox.ac.uk/miis/94/
title: Roses are unselfish: a greenhouse growth model to predict harvest rates.
creator: Bokhove, Onno
creator: Dubbeldam, Johan
creator: Getto, Philipp
creator: van 't Hof, Bas
creator: Ovenden, Nick
creator: Pik, Derk
creator: Prokert, Georg
creator: Rottschäfer, Vivi
creator: van der Sar, Dick
subject: None/Other
description: We consider the question of how rose production in a greenhouse can be optimised. Based on realistic assumptions, a rose growth model is derived that can be used to predict the rose harvest. The model is made up of two constituent parts: (i) a local model that calculates the photosynthetic rate per area of leaf and (ii) a global model of the greenhouse that transforms the photosynthesis of the leaves into an increase in mass of the rose crop. The growth rate of the  rose stems depends not only on the time-dependent ambient conditions within the greenhouse, which include temperature, relative humidity, CO$_2$ concentration and light intensity, but also on the location and age distribution of the leaves and the form of the underlying rose bush supporting the crop.
date: 2002-02-22
type: Study Group Report
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://miis.maths.ox.ac.uk/miis/94/1/rosesproc.pdf
identifier:   Bokhove, Onno and Dubbeldam, Johan and Getto, Philipp and van 't Hof, Bas and Ovenden, Nick and Pik, Derk and Prokert, Georg and Rottschäfer, Vivi and van der Sar, Dick  (2002) Roses are unselfish: a greenhouse growth model to predict harvest rates.  [Study Group Report]