J. Vanderborght

Root hydraulic properties: an exploration of their variability across scales

This paper reviews empirical studies on root hydraulic properties across scales, identifies factors influencing their variability, and highlights the importance of root system age and measurement conditions.

Development and calibration of the FSPM CPlantBox to represent the interactions between water and carbon fluxes in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum

The paper develops and calibrates CPlantBox to simulate water and carbon flux interactions in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum under varying climate conditions.

Phloem anatomy restricts root system architecture development: theoretical clues from in silico experiments.

The paper uses computational models to show that phloem hydraulics significantly affect root growth rates and final length by limiting carbon flow.

Combining deep learning and automated feature extraction to analyze minirhizotron images: development and validation of a new pipeline

This paper develops and validates a pipeline combining deep learning and automated feature extraction to analyze minirhizotron images, showing high accuracy and significantly faster processing than manual methods.

Linking rhizosphere processes across scales: Opinion

The paper discusses how multi-scale rhizosphere processes influence plant-scale behavior and presents models that integrate experimental data across scales to predict rhizodeposition and microbial activity.

Simulating rhizodeposition patterns around growing and exuding root systems

This study develops a model to simulate rhizodeposition patterns around growing root systems, showing that root branching increases rhizodeposit hotspot volumes, especially for citrate.

CPlantBox, a whole plant modeling framework for the simulation of water and carbon related processes

CPlantBox is a whole plant modeling framework that simulates water and carbon flows, validated against experimental data across multiple case studies.

Call for participation: Collaborative benchmarking of functional-structural root architecture models. The case of root water uptake.

The paper calls for collaborative benchmarking of functional-structural root architecture models to improve their accuracy and reliability in simulating root water uptake.

Connecting the dots between computational tools to analyse soil-root water relations

The paper presents a network of computational tools for analyzing soil-root water relations, showing how they can be connected to improve data interpretation and parameterization.

CRootBox: A Structural-Functional Modelling Framework For Root Systems

CRootBox is a root architecture model that simulates root growth and interactions with soil environments, demonstrating its use in various scenarios including field-scale simulations and coupling with soil physics.