Spatio-temporal analysis of strawberry architecture: insights into the control of branching and inflorescence complexity.

ABSTRACT: Plant architecture plays a major role in flowering and therefore in crop yield. Attempts to visualize and analyse strawberry plant architecture have been few to date. Here, we developed open-source software combining two- and three-dimensional representations of plant development over time along with statistical methods to explore the variability in spatio-temporal development of plant architecture in cultivated strawberry. We applied this software to six seasonal strawberry varieties whose plants were exhaustively described monthly at the node scale. Results showed that the architectural pattern of the strawberry plant is characterized by a decrease of the module complexity between the zeroth-order module (primary crown) and higher-order modules (lateral branch crowns and extension crowns

SUBMITTER: Labadie M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10299788 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature