CPlantBox

CPlantBox simulates water and carbon fluxes within whole-plant architectures to quantify physiological responses to heterogeneous environmental conditions.

Key Features:

• Integration with CRootBox: Builds upon the root system model CRootBox to enable comprehensive simulations of root and shoot architectures across a variety of plant types.
• Coupling with PiafMunch: Integrates with PiafMunch, a mechanistic model that simulates water and carbon flows within the plant vasculature.
• Diurnal carbon and water flow simulation: Simulates daily cycles of carbon and water fluxes within the plant and supports comparison to published experimental data.
• Modeling of heterogeneous environments: Simulates how spatially variable environmental conditions influence carbon and water flows within plants.
• Fitting of phloem data: Fits phloem pressure and flow speed to experimental measurements for detailed physiological analysis.

Scientific Applications:

• Simulation of plant architectures: Generate quantitative representations of diverse plant growth forms and development patterns.
• Analysis of diurnal carbon and water dynamics: Investigate daily carbon and water flux patterns and validate against experimental datasets.
• Assessment of environmental heterogeneity effects: Evaluate plant physiological responses to spatially varying soil and atmospheric conditions.
• Physiological data fitting: Fit and interpret phloem pressure and flow-speed measurements to study internal transport processes.

Methodology:

Implements a quantitative framework that integrates mechanistic models with empirical data to simulate interactions between carbon and water fluxes within plant vasculature, including explicit coupling to the PiafMunch mechanistic transport model.