%0 Journal Article %T OILCROP-SUN Model Relevance for Evaluation of Nitrogen Management of Sunflower Hybrids in Sargodha, Punjab %A Ashfaq Ahmad %A Amjed Ali %A Tasneem Khaliq %A Syed Aftab Wajid %A Zafar Iqbal %A Muhammad Ibrahim %A Hafiz Muhammad Rashad Javeed %A Gerrit Hoogenboom %J American Journal of Plant Sciences %P 1731-1735 %@ 2158-2750 %D 2013 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/ajps.2013.49212 %X
The
experiments were conducted to evaluate the performance of crop system (DSSAT)
OILCROP-SUN model simulating growth & development and achene
yield of sunflower hybrids in response to nitrogen under irrigated conditions
in semi arid environment, Sargodha, Punjab. The model was evaluated with
observed data collected in trials which were conducted during spring season in
2010 and 2011 in Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan.