ArticleThe New phytologist2017
OpenSimRoot: widening the scope and application of root architectural models.
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- Unearthing the invisible: simulating maize root domestication through deep time.The New phytologist · 2025Article
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- Cortical parenchyma wall width regulates root metabolic cost and maize performance under suboptimal water availability.Journal of experimental botany · 2024Article
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- Regulation of root growth and elongation in wheat.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Review
- Root phenotypes for improved nitrogen capture.Plant and soil · 2024Review
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- 3D U-Net Segmentation Improves Root System Reconstruction from 3D MRI Images in Automated and Manual Virtual Reality Work Flows.Plant phenomics (Washington, D.C.) · 2023Article
- Crop/Plant Modeling Supports Plant Breeding: II. Guidance of Functional Plant Phenotyping for Trait Discovery.Plant phenomics (Washington, D.C.) · 2023Review
- Modeling the effects of strigolactone levels on maize root system architecture.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
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OpenSimRoot is an open-source, functional-structural plant model and mathematical description of root growth and function. We describe OpenSimRoot and its functionality to broaden the benefits of root modeling to the plant science community. OpenSimRoot is an extended version of SimRoot, established to simulate root system architecture, nutrient acquisition and plant growth. OpenSimRoot has a plugin, modular infrastructure, coupling single plant and crop stands to soil nutrient and water transport models. It estimates the value of root traits for water and nutrient acquisition in environments and plant species. The flexible OpenSimRoot design allows upscaling from root anatomy to plant community to estimate the following: resource costs of developmental and anatomical traits; trait synergisms; and (interspecies) root competition. OpenSimRoot can model three-dimensional images from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and X-ray computed tomography (CT) of roots in soil. New modules include: soil water-dependent water uptake and xylem flow; tiller formation; evapotranspiration; simultaneous simulation of mobile solutes; mesh refinement; and root growth plasticity. OpenSimRoot integrates plant phenotypic data with environmental metadata to support experimental designs and to gain a mechanistic understanding at system scales.
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