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Functional-structural plant models (FSPMs), combining the physiological function of a plant with its architecture, require precise and transparent specifications. This can be seen as a new challenge to the design of programming languages. Here we introduce, exemplarily for a model of young poplar trees, our new formalism of relational growth grammars (RGGs), which extend the well-known Lindenmayer (L-)systems to a specific sort of node- and edge-labelled graph grammars. The model has been written in the programming language XL, which extends standard Java by rule-based programming with RGGs and overcomes many of the disadvantages of L-systems. RGGs can bridge different scales: In our model, morphogenetic rules in L-system style are combined with rules describing a regulatory network of hormone biosynthesis and rules updating photosynthate concentrations of shoot modules, all in one and the same formalism.
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Buck-Sorlin, G., Kniemeyer, O., Kurth, W. (2008). A Model of Poplar (Populus sp.) Physiology and Morphology Based on Relational Growth Grammars. In: Deutsch, A., et al. Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems, Volume II. Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4556-4_28
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