Author(s)

Luz E. Marín Vaca¹, Miguel Aguilar Cortes¹, Oscar G. Villegas Torres², Nadia Lara Ruiz¹, Martha Lilia Domínguez Patiño³

¹Engineering and Applied Science Postgraduate School, University of Autonomous Morelos State, Morelos, Mexico.
²Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Autonomous Morelos State, Morelos, Mexico.
³Faculty of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, University of Autonomous Morelos State, Morelos, Mexico.

The importance of evaluating the leaf area in red tomato plants aims to determine the growth and development of crops established two production cycles, spring-summer and autumn-winter to compare the influence of temperature on the growth of leaf area. Repeated, weekly samples were taken by identifying the week and determining the growth and leaf area development using Markov chains, using an array of transition to describe and represent in a flowchart the finite number of physiological States. With the analysis in the steady state process and applying the equations of odds, we get that leaf area growth is established from the seventh week shown in the first cycle (C1) with the chance of 0.266, 0.264 and 0.263, in the last two weeks. It was observed an increase of 6% in the cycle autumn-winter cycle compared spring-summer.

Leaf Area, Tomato and Markov Chains

Marín Vaca, L. , Cortes, M. , Villegas Torres, O. , Ruiz, N. and Domínguez Patiño, M. (2016) Evaluation of Growth Area Foliar Red Tomato Crop Using Markov Chains. Agricultural Sciences, 7, 420-424. doi: 10.4236/as.2016.76043.