“…Various models have been developed for different crops, such as DSSAT (Jones et al, 2003), APSIM (Keating et al, 2003), AquaCrop (Vanuytrecht et al, 2014) and STICS (Brisson et al, 2003). These models have become useful and effective tools within the fields of irrigation and fertilizer (nitrogen) management (Asseng et al, 2012;, grain yield and quality forecasting (Asseng et al, 2002;Asseng and Milroy, 2006;de Wit and van Diepen, 2007), plant growth estimation (Araya et al, 2010;Thorp et al, 2012), precision agriculture (Thorp et al, 2008), breeding programs (Jeuffroy et al, 2014;Vazquez-Cruz et al, 2014) and climate change evaluation (Angulo et al, 2013;Fan and Shibata, 2014). The CERES-Wheat model is integrated within the Decision Support System of Agrotechnology Transfer modelling system (DSSAT;V 4.5) and is a well-known crop model developed for the simulation of winter wheat growth (Jones et al, 2003;Thorp et al, 2012).…”