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CSIRO Division of Tropical Crops and Pastures
Cunningham Laboratory
St Lucia Qld 4067
Australia
Ph. 61-7-377-0209 Fx. 61-7-371-3946
March 1992
(Updated July 1992)
Welcome to PLANTGRO. PLANTGRO is a package for
describing and predicting the growth of plants in ways
which are natural to human beings. It is therefore capable
of covering hundreds of plant species, something which no
other substantial growth prediction package can do as
simply and cheaply.
The README.2ND file gives you the information
you need to understand the basic features of
PLANTGRO and operate the programs on a trial basis. If you
are interested in some of the plants for which
files are given here, you may be able to do some useful
work just with this cut-down version.
The full package provides the source code in GWBASIC and
the handbook. An upgrade disk offers a version of the
programs in QuickBASIC. No data-files are provided on that
disk apart from four upgraded test climate files.
The handbook is essential for most work with PLANTGRO
because it gives the methods for making plant files from
personal knowledge of how plants respond to particular
factors. The handbook also greatly helps users who know
plants well but have had no formal training in plant
science. PLANTGRO values such people very much and helps
them to record what they know for upgrading using other
people's experience and subsequent general distribution.
Finally, PLANTGRO aims to promote de-centralised and
co-operative work via networking. The software which users create
will be theirs to sell and distribute as they wish. The network
will help them advertise what is available, but there will
be no controls. All we ask is that users who make new files
or programs be honest and open about the strengths and
limitations of their products.
I hope you enjoy using PLANTGRO on a trial basis.
Before starting, please do read README.2ND. You
will then understand the thinking behind the
package and the way it works. If you dive in
straightaway, you may make frustrating errors or not
understand why things are done the way they are.
Best wishes,
Clive Hackett
P.S. (August 1992)
Highly graphic versions of Plantgro for Macintosh
and Windows are planned for early 1993. If you would
like to know when they appear, please write to:
Iris Media, PO Box 124, Nimben, NSW 2450, Australia,
or fax 61-66-89-1109 or phone 61-66-89-1000.
C.H.