Virtual Plants: Modeling Plant Architecture in Changing Environments

• Main Author: Hartmut Stutzel (auth)
• Other Authors: Katrin Kahlen (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Botany & plant sciences; Morphogenesis; environment; functional-structural plant model; simulation; Interaction; Light; Virtual plant; plasticity; crop productivity; Ontogeny; plant architecture
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Plant architecture is a major determinant of the resource use efficiency of crops. The architecture of a plant shows ontogenetic structural changes which are modified by multiple environmental factors: Plant canopies are exposed to natural fluctuations in light quantity and the dynamically changing...