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@ARTICLE{Schnepf:845900,
author = {Schnepf, Andrea and Leitner, Daniel and Landl, Magdalena
and Lobet, Guillaume and Mai, Trung Hieu and Morandage,
Shehan and Sheng, Cheng and Zörner, Mirjam and
Vanderborght, Jan and Vereecken, Harry},
title = {{CR}oot{B}ox: a structural–functional modelling framework
for root systems},
journal = {Annals of botany},
volume = {121},
number = {5},
issn = {1095-8290},
address = {Oxford},
publisher = {Oxford University Press},
reportid = {FZJ-2018-03098},
pages = {1033 - 1053},
year = {2018},
abstract = {Background and AimsRoot 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.MethodsCRootBox 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 a plain text file
containing coordinates of root nodes. Furthermore, a
database of published root architecture parameters was
created. The capabilities of CRootBox for the unconfined
growth of single root systems, as well as the different
parameter sets, are highlighted in a freely available web
application.Key resultsThe capabilities of CRootBox are
demonstrated through five different cases: (1) free growth
of individual root systems; (2) growth of root systems in
containers as a way to mimic experimental setups; (3)
field-scale simulation; (4) root growth as affected by
heterogeneous, static soil conditions; and (5) coupling
CRootBox with code from the book Soil physics with Python to
dynamically compute water flow in soil, root water uptake
and water flow inside roots.ConclusionsCRootBox is a fast
and flexible functional–structural root model that is
based on state-of-the-art computational science methods. Its
aim is to facilitate modelling of root responses to
environmental conditions as well as the impact of roots on
soil. In the future, this approach will be extended to the
above-ground part of the plant.},
cin = {IBG-3},
ddc = {580},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-3-20101118},
pnm = {255 - Terrestrial Systems: From Observation to Prediction
(POF3-255)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-255},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:29432520},
UT = {WOS:000430676600019},
doi = {10.1093/aob/mcx221},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/845900},
}