Uday:

Biomass includes pod as well as above-ground plant mass.  This needs to be
that way to be consistent with soybean and other legumes.  The mass is as
oven-dry weight.

Ken Boote

At 02:09 PM 7/21/01 +0530, you wrote:
>Dear Members,
>
>I am using DSSAT 3.5 for PEANUT crop growth. I have some queries in
>preparing observed/measured data file.
>
>1.In case of PEANUT does Biomass (kg/ha)  include above ground plant
>weight as well as wt of pods excluding root weights?

Yes


>2. What is the percent moisture content of the Biomass(kg/ha) dry; Pod
>yield(kg/ha) dry & Seed weight(kg) dry that is considered in the CARGO
>model of DSSAT.
Oven-dry weight


>Please suggest & guide.
>
>Uday Khodke
>Department of Agricultural & Food Engineering
>Indian Institute of Technology,
>Kharagpur- 721 302
>India
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