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Above-ground biomass (open circles) during growth of a rice crop, cultivar IR72, grown at IRRI in the dry season 1997. The curve (continuous line) shown is back-transformed from a cubic polynomial fitted to the natural logarithm of the data (r2 = 0·98). The date of panicle initiation (PI) and the start of flowering are indicated.
