CRootBox: a structural-functional modelling framework for root systems.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Root architecture development determines the sites in soil where roots provide input of carbon and take up water and solutes. However, root architecture is difficult to determine experimentally when grown in opaque soil. Thus, root architecture models have been widely used and been further developed into functional-structural models that simulate the fate of water and solutes in the soil-root system. The root architecture model CRootBox presented here is a flexible framework to model root architecture and its interactions with static and dynamic soil environments.

Methods

CRootBox is a C++-based root architecture model with Python binding, so that CRootBox can be included via a shared library into any Python code. Output formats include VTP, DGF, RSML and

SUBMITTER: Schnepf A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5906965 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature