Figure 6.

Time courses of measured and modeled LERs during a climatic scenario in the growth chamber. Five RILs are presented, which were not taken into account in the detection of QTLs. Values corresponding to two RILs with similar predicted and measured values were averaged for better legibility. The modeled values were obtained from the ecophysiological model (Eq. 1) whose parameters were calculated as a sum of QTL effects with the genetic models (Table II). A, Change with time of meristem temperature (plain line) and VPD (dotted line). Numbers on the top of the panel represent periods, identified for better legibility in the text. Black bars on the bottom indicate the night periods. B, LER measured with linear variable displacement transducers (LVDTs), averaged on two or more plants of each RIL. Each line style represents a RIL. C, Modeled LER for the same RILs.