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Allometric models for non-destructive leaf area estimation in coffee (Coffea arabica and Coffea canephora)
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Antunes, Werner Camargos Pompelli, Marcelo Francisco Carretero, Diego Martins Damatta, Fábio Murilo |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | We aimed to evaluate the currently used allometric models, as well as to propose a reliable and accurate model using non-destructive measurements of leaf length (L) and/or width (W), for estimating the area of leaves of eight field-grown coffee cultivars. For model construction, a total of 1563 leaves were randomly selected from different levels of the tree canopies and encompassed the full spectrum of measurable leaf sizes (0.3-263 cm 2 ) for each genotype. Power models better fit coffee leaf area (LA) than linear models. To validate the model, an independent data set of 388 leaves was used. We demonstrated that the currently used allometric models are biased, underestimating the area of a coffee leaf. We developed a single power model (Y =β 0 x β 1) based on two leaf dimensions [LA = 0.6626 (LW) 1.0116 ; standard errors: β 0 = 0.0064, β 1 = 0.0019; R 2 = 0.996] with high precision and accuracy, random dispersion pattern of residuals and also unbiased, irrespective of cultivar and leaf size and shape. Even when the L (but not width) alone was used as the single leaf dimension, the power model developed still predicted with good accuracy the LA but at the expense of some loss of precision, as particularly found for 8% of the leaves sampled with length-to-width ratios below 2.0 or above 3.0. |
| Starting Page | 33 |
| Ending Page | 40 |
| Page Count | 8 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 153 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.locus.ufv.br/bitstream/handle/123456789/22384/artigo.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7348.2008.00235.x |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
