Canopy light interception (LI) is an important factor for crop growth and fruit yield. Crop yield depends on a canopy's ability to intercept incident solar radiation, which in turn depends on the ...

Yield increases resulting from higher plant populations are primarily the result of increased light interception during grain-fill by the crop canopy.

The extinction coefficient for visible, infra-red, and total radiation was found to vary with time in a less dense crop. sv, the fraction of visible radiation that passes through unit leaf layer ...

The crop growth rates of six temperate forage grasses of contrasting canopy structure in mid-summer ranged from 22 g m-2 day-1 for Phleum pratense (cv. S352) to 43 g m-2 day for Festuca arundinacea ...