Subject area	Agronomy, Crop modelling, Plant growth and development
More specific subject area	Banana, Plantain
Type of data	Tables
How data was acquired	The ‘Plantain-Optim’ dataset came from the ‘Plantain-Optim’ experiment: data are raw measures from experimental field. Leaf areas were calculated from measured data with the Murray formula (Murray, 1960) and the OTO model (Dépigny, 2015).
Data format	Raw data
Experimental factors	Experimental field was a fallow during more than one year.
	Plantlets were choose homogeneous and healthy.
Experimental features	The ‘Plantain-Optim’ experiment was a completely randomized bloc with on factor. The factor was the plantain variety with nine modalities. Each variety was represented by 45 plants split into 5 replicates.
Data source location	CARBAP experimental station, Njombé, Cameroon
	GPS: 4°34'N; 9°38’E; 79 m a.s.l.
Data accessibility	Cirad Dataverse
	http://dx.doi.org/10.18167/DVN1/CBUVWU