CRootBox
Andrea Schnepf (FZJuelich)
Overview
| Model category | FSPM |
|---|---|
| Plant part | Root |
| Scale | Whole_plant, Field |
| Licence | open_source |
| Operating system | MacOs, Windows, Linux |
| Programming language | Cpp, Python |
| Format of model inputs and outputs | python files, text files, VTP, DGF, RSML |
| Species studied | Annual-plants |
| Execution environment | Console, Web-based |
Scientific article
CRootBox: a structural–functional modelling framework for root systemsAndrea Schnepf,Daniel Leitner,Magdalena Landl,Guillaume Lobet,Trung Hieu Mai,Shehan Morandage,Cheng Sheng,Mirjam Zörner,Jan Vanderborght,Harry VereeckenAnnals of Botany, 2018 View paper
Model description
CRootBox is a fast and flexible functional-structural root model that is based on state-of-the-art computational science methods. The focus of CRootBox is the simulation of different types of root architecture, and to provide a generic interface for coupling with arbitrary soil/environmental models, e.g., in order to determine the impact of specific root architectures on function. CRootBox is based on the earlier RootBox code that had been implemented in Matlab, but now has an object oriented implementation which is more flexible and faster so that field-scale modelling became feasible.
Some case studies
14 different species based on published parameters (Schnepf et al. 2018)