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The Virtual Plants is an INRIA project-team, joint with CIRAD and INRA. It is located at UMR AGAP, Montpellier, France. The long-term focus of the project is to study plant development and its control by genetic processes.
Motivation: Plants are branching living organisms that develop throughout their lifetimes. Organs are created by small embryogenetic regions at the tip of each axis, called apical meristems . In the project Virtual Plants, we are interested in studying plant apical meristem functioning and development. We believe that a detailed analysis of apical meristem processes, based on advanced mathematical and computational methods and tools, will lead us to get a deeper and better understanding of plant development.
Biological keywords: Plant development, branching systems, plant architecture analysis, plant geometry and topology, branching patterns, meristems, growth, vegetal tissues, hormones, auxine fluxes, meristem physiological states, shoots, roots.
Mathematical keywords: Developmental processes, dynamic systems with dynamic structures (DS)2, stochastic processes, Markov processes, transport processes, partial differential equations, mechanical models, L-systems, MGS, plant and fractals, tree-graph comparison, self-similarity in trees, tree compression, multiscale structures and analysis, 3D imaging.
News
- 15/11/11 : Defense of Yassin Refahi's PhD thesis , at 2pm, IRD Montpellier.
- 14-15/06/11 : First OpenAlea Days in Agropolis, Montpellier.
- 30/04/11 : E. Moscardi finished his contract with us on Mars-Alt.
- 12/04/11 : F. Boudon is visiting P. Prusinkiewicz's lab in Calgary, Canada for 3 weeks.
- 12/04/11 : D. Fumey successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Modelling pruning effect on apple tree”.
- 17-18/03/11 : Agropolis seminar on plant modelling.
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