L-Pea


Romain Barillot, Pierre Huynh, Abraham J Escobar-Gutiérrez and Didier Combes (LUNAM Université and INRA)

Overview

Model category SPM
Plant part Shoot
Scale Organs, Whole_plant
Licence open_source
Operating system Windows, Linux
Programming language Python
Format of model inputs and outputs CSV files
Species studied Pea
Execution environment Console
Modelling environment OpenAlea,L-Py

Scientific article

L-Pea: an architectural model of pea (Pisum sativum) development
Romain Barillot,Pierre Huynh,Abraham J Escobar-Gutiérrez and Didier Combes
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Functional-Structural Plant Models, 2013 View paper

Model description

The L-Pea model is a deterministic model simulating the dynamic reconstructions of pea architecture. It is based on L-systems formalism and consists of modules for ‘vegetative development’ and ‘organ extension’. The above ground architecture is represented as a succession of phytomers that compose main stems and branches. L-Pea model is used to represent realistic/measured architectures of pea plants (resulting from the integration of environmental effects) but is not designed to reproduce the responses of plants to the environment.

Some case studies

Some recent studies using L-Pea:

Barillot R, Escobar-Gutiérrez AJ, Fournier C, et al (2014) Assessing the effects of architectural variations on light partitioning within virtual wheat–pea mixtures. Annals of Botany 114:725–737. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcu099