Mark:

Planting material dry weight in the planting section of FileX refers to
transplant weight for crops such as rice and tomatoes as well to define the
"seed" weight for root crops such as potato and cassava.

The CROPGRO models use the seed weight as defined in the cultivar file to
initialize plant weight at emergence.

Regards,

Gerrit


At 02:44 PM 9/4/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Colleagues,
>
>For the planting details variable in FILEX, planting material dry weight,
>kg/ha, does this refer to the seed weight or the transplant weight?
>
>Regards,
>Mark
>
>Mark Sunohara, Agro-Meteorology Technician
>  Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre
>  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Ave.
>  KW Neatby Building, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0C6
>  telephone: 613.759.1641  fax: 613.759.1924
>email: [log in to unmask]