L-Cucumber

The dynamic virtual plant model L-Cucumber predicts growth and development of greenhouse grown cucumber plants under various light conditions and canopy architectures. Production of dry matter and growth of the shoot are dependent on the local light conditions of each individual leaf within the canopy, which are provided by acoupled light model. Using the L-System formalism, this FSPM combine a model for architectural development, a biochemical model of photosynthesis and a model for assimilate partitioning, the last including a fruit growth model based on a size-related potential growth rate. Starting from a distribution proportional to the size-related potential growth rate, the model was extended by including abortion and dominance. Abortion was related to source strength and dominance to sink strength.

Some recent studies using L-Cucumber:

-Kahlen K, Chen T-W (2015) Predicting Plant Performance Under Simultaneously Changing Environmental Conditions—The Interplay Between Temperature, Light, and Internode Growth. Front Plant Sci 6:. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2015.01130

-Kahlen K, Stützel H (2011) Modelling photo-modulated internode elongation in growing glasshouse cucumber canopies. New Phytologist 190:697–708. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03617.x

-Wiechers D, Kahlen K, Stützel H (2011) Dry matter partitioning models for the simulation of individual fruit growth in greenhouse cucumber canopies. Annals of Botany 108:1075–1084. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcr150