Section: Overall Objectives

Research fields

Digiplante's main focus is the mathematical odelling of plant architectural growth by developing the GreenLab model. Several issues are concerned:

• Formalism of the organogenesis model based on stochastic grammars

• Integration of the functioning into plant structure: bud functioning, biomass production and partitioning in both deterministic and stochastic cases

• Interactions between Organogenesis and Photosynthesis

• Plant-environment interactions (light, temperature, water)

• Tree structure simplification and multi-scale representation

• Transition from the individual plant to plant populations

• Optimization and Control of the dynamical growth to improve yield under constraints

• Connexion with others research fields: mechanics, radiosity, genetics

• Visualization of plants from individual to population and landscape level with different computer graphic techniques

• Developing software for the simulation of the GreenLab model (Scilab and C++).