Abstract

The importance of calculating the leaf area lies in identifying the extent to which the plant benefits from the light energy to which it is exposed, which is useful in the process of photosynthesis, and its final result is the storage of the dry matter of the plant, since all the green parts of the plant carry out the process of photosynthesis, including the stem and other vegetative parts. The green area in those parts is difficult to measure, so it is neglected and measured instead of the area of the leaves only because it represents the large part of the green space in the tree. There are several methods for calculating the leaf area of a plant, the most important of which is the weighted method, where a group of leaves is weighed and then the area occupied by those leaves is found. After that, the total leaf area is estimated by. proportion ratio.