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

This paper reviews the use of Monte Carlo (MC) methods in optical canopy reflectance
modelling. Their utility, and, more specifically, MC ray tracing for the numerical simulation of …

Maize (Zea mays L.) grain yield increase in narrow rows (0.35–0.50 m) may be related to the
improvement of light interception around silking, but percentages of grain yield increase are …

This review introduces the emergence of a new research topic, phylloclimate, located at the
crossroads between ecophysiology and canopy microclimate research. Phylloclimate …

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 …

Growing mixtures of annual arable crop species or genotypes is a promising way to improve
crop production without increasing agricultural inputs. To design optimal crop mixtures …

Several studies have considered maize canopy as a homogeneous medium with a random
leaf orientation distribution. Recent studies, however, have detected that maize leaf …

Suppression of weed growth in a crop canopy can be enhanced by improving crop
competitiveness. One way to achieve this is by modifying the crop planting pattern. In this …

Despite the strong influence of plant architecture on crop yield, most crop models either
ignore it or deal with it in a very rudimentary way. This paper demonstrates the feasibility of …

For more than 30 years, analysis of image pixels has been central to the interpretation of
multi-spectral remote sensing imagery of the Earth and celestial bodies. In the context of …