Due to an increase in the consumption of food, feed, fuel and to meet global food security
needs for the rapidly growing human population, there is a necessity to breed high yielding …

Plants react to their environment and to management interventions by adjusting
physiological functions and structure. Functional–structural plant models (FSPM), combine …

Background Modelling plant growth allows us to test hypotheses and carry out virtual
experiments concerning plant growth processes that could otherwise take years in field …

Due to the rise of laser scanning the 3D geometry of plant architecture is easy to acquire.
Nevertheless, an automated interpretation and, finally, the segmentation into functional …

Intimate relationships exist between form and function of plants, determining many
processes governing their growth and development. However, in most crop simulation …

The programming language XL ('eXtended L-system language') is an extension of Java,
which supports the specification and execution of relational growth grammars, a variant of …

Increasing biological knowledge requires more and more elaborate methods to translate the
knowledge into executable model descriptions, and increasing computational power allows …

Abstract Background and Aims Although quantitative trait loci (QTL) analysis of yield-related
traits for rice has developed rapidly, crop models using genotype information have been …

Abstract Background and Aims The strong influence of environment and functioning on plant
organogenesis has been well documented by botanists but is poorly reproduced in most …

We propose an approach to fully-automated and sensor-based 3D reconstruction of grape
cluster architecture followed by a precise, objective, and reproducible derivation of …