Hi, this iv very interesting and I like your idea. I come from the Eco-physiology research side. It seems to me that you may want to connect to of models like SAIL, or Scope which have (or are working on implementing) the photosynthesis relationship in therms of ecological factors and constrains. I and not a modeler, so I'll suggest you contact Wouter Verhoef to confirm your ideas.

Dear Petya,

thank you very much for the answer and for the interesting on this idea.

My idea is somenthing similar to what you are suggesting, and I'll check your advices.

To better clarify what I have in mind: since model for water uptake and transport from roots to stem and finally to the leaf are available (SPAC - Soil-plant-atmosphere-continuum), in my view it could be feasable to build, with of course the help of a physiologist, a model that simulate the release of nutrients from circular water within plant xylem to the plant organs and trying to understand if some techiniques to reduce methane emissions could be dangerous for rice plants.

hi Rizzo

yes, your idea is a very interesting one to implement. you need to collect the data on nutrient and other factors and see the relationship with methane.

i may be able to help you in this process. but need to know what you exactly need before hand.

best of luck.

prasad

Hi Senadheera,

first of all, thank you very much for your interesting and your offer of help.

The idea of this topic was to understand if some models similar to what I have in mind alredy exist. In case of positive answer, I could try to persuade my tutors to open this parallel topic, contrarily I've no time in this period to start to build a new branch of the current model.

However,

thanks anyway