Title
Global sensitivity analysis for calculating the contribution of genetic parameters to the variance of crop model prediction
Abstract
Dynamic models are often used to predict the effects of farmers’ practices on crop yield, crop quality, and environment. These models usually include many parameters that must be estimated from experimental data before practical use. Parameter estimation is a difficult problem especially when some of the parameters vary across genotypes. These genetic parameters may be estimated from plant breeding experiments but this is very costly and requires a lot of experimental work. Moreover, some of the genetic parameters may account for only a very small part of the output variance and, so, do not deserve an accurate determination. This paper shows how methods of global sensitivity analysis can be used to evaluate the contributions of the genetic parameters to the variance of model prediction. Two methods are applied to a complex crop model for estimating the sensitivity indices associated to 13 genetic parameters. The results show that only five genetic parameters have a significant effect on crop yield and grain quality.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1016/j.ress.2005.11.015
Reliability Engineering & System Safety
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Crop model,Extended fast,Genetic parameter,Global sensitivity analysis,Winding stairs
Journal
91
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
0951-8320
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.42
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Makowski1293.52
Cédric Naud2101.42
Marie-Hélène Jeuffroy3101.42
Aude Barbottin4101.76
Hervé Monod5394.36