Plant Growth Modeling at the JSC Variable Pressure Growth Chamber: An Application of Experimental Design 921356
This paper describes the approach and results of an effort to characterize plant growth under various environmental conditions at the Johnson Space Center variable pressure growth chamber. Using a field of applied mathematics and statistics known as design of experiments (DOE), we developed a test plan for varying environmental parameters during a lettuce growth experiment. The test plan was developed using a Box-Behnken approach to DOE. As a result of the experimental runs, we have developed empirical models of both the transpiration process and carbon dioxide assimilation for Waldman's Green lettuce over specified ranges of environmental parameters including carbon dioxide concentration, light intensity, dew-point temperature, and air velocity. This model also predicts transpiration and carbon dioxide assimilation for different ages of the plant canopy.
Citation: Miller, A., Edeen, M., and Sirko, R., "Plant Growth Modeling at the JSC Variable Pressure Growth Chamber: An Application of Experimental Design," SAE Technical Paper 921356, 1992, https://doi.org/10.4271/921356. Download Citation
Author(s):
Adam M. Miller, Marybeth Edeen, Robert J. Sirko
Pages: 11
Event:
International Conference On Environmental Systems
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
Carbon dioxide
Simulation and modeling
Pressure
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