Background Woody plants (trees and shrubs) play an important role in terrestrial
ecosystems, but their size and longevity make them difficult subjects for traditional …

Sustainable crop production is a contributing factor to current and future food security.
Innovative technologies are needed to design strategies that will achieve higher crop yields …

Tree pruning is a labor and cost-intensive task. Still, it is a necessary activity that ensures a
high yield of good quality products in horticulture and increases the overall health of trees in …

Apple picking is a challenging manipulation task, but it is difficult to test solutions due to the
limited window of time that apples are in season. Previous methods have built simulations of …

Few studies have focused on simulating fruit tree growth under fertilization constraints and
evaluating nitrogen utilization efficiency. This study aimed to improve the WOFOST (World …

We present a framework for multi-objective optimization of fruit tree pruning within a
simulated environment, where pruning is performed on a virtual tree model, and its effects …

Agroforestry, the integration of trees, crops, and animals, is expected to increase
environmental sustainability of fruit production compared to traditional orchards. Virtual …

Fruit growers have to master tree training and pruning to achieve high yields, but learning
these skills is time consuming. A special tree training and pruning teaching application …

Visual representations of plant architectural data are useful for different reasons, eg data
verification, preliminary analysis, or demonstrating and communicating research …

Leaf shape plays a key role in the interaction of a plant with its environment, best-known in
the plant's light harvest. Effects of the environment on the interplay of canopy architecture …