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Simulating nitrogen economy of wheat plants
The model NEMA (Nitrogen Economy Model within plant Architecture) simulates nitrogen fluxes within a wheat plant (Triticum aestivum) after flowering. Bertheloot et al. show that the
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The Title Says It All?
Jessica Budke recently published an interesting blog post (Is the Title of your Scientific Publication Important?) about her travails with her second published article: I just
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Prof. in a box
In the good old days of the late 18th Century in England it was considered the height of scientific enquiry for a polymath cleric to put
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A gift for the anti-Botanist
With a world full of fascinating life-forms, it’s always easy to find a gift for a botanist. There’s so many plants to choose
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Towards aspect-oriented plant modelling
Standard modelling techniques are not suited for clearly separating aspects of plant function that criss-cross between different components of plant structure, which makes it difficult
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Process-based model of N uptake and use in wheat
Defining strategies for better use of nitrogen by crops requires sufficiently mechanistic models of nitrogen acquisition and use by plants. Bertheloot et al. describe the model
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Linking water stress and carbon partitioning
Despite the well-known effects of water potential on fruit-tree growth and development, very few models combine carbohydrate allocation with water transport. Da Silva et
Plant Cuttings
The high life
In the plant kingdom, great size doesn’t always guarantee ‘success’. Take for instance trees: for all their wonderfulness and huge size, they don’t always
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Being Social
The aim of the AoB blog is to “promote the science of botany”, be it the botany that is published in Annals of Botany, in AoB
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Assessing uncertainty in functional–structural models
Functional–structural plant models always have uncertainty concerned with selection of model components, with the number of outputs simulated and with the quality of data used
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The mysteries of movement proteins
To establish a systemic infection, plant viruses invade neighboring cells via cell to cell movement trough plasmodesmata channels until they reach the vascular system. This cell
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Black is the new… er… green?
What colour are plants? No, not a stupid question, but I bet you were tempted to answer ‘green’? Which is fair enough; chlorophyll is the major