About the course
This course is about plant and how they interact with their neighbouring soil environment. It was first given at the Université catholique de Louvain in 2017
Course source materials on GitHub
Course slides
Course 1 - Introduction
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Course 2 - Root systems
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Course 3 - Root and water
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Course 4 - Water and roots
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Course 5 - Phenotyping roots
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Additional course summary and notes
During the course, students are encouraged to built, together, a collaborative summary in Google Doc. After each class, I will go through the summary to make corrections, notes, and adjustments- The doc from this year (2018) is here: http://bit.ly/LBRES2106-2018
- The doc from last year (2017) is here: http://bit.ly/LBRES2106-summary
Models discussed during the lectures
- CRootBox: https://plant-root-soil-interactions-modelling.github.io/CRootBox/
- R-SWMS: http://sites.uclouvain.be/RSWMS/
- MECHA: https://mecharoot.github.io/
- Hydropatterning: hhttps://nrobbins.shinyapps.io/20161105_hydropatterning_app/
To go a bit further:
- 08 May 2017 » List of references
About Me
I am an Assistant Professor between the Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Université catholique de Louvain since Sept 2016. More about my group here. The aim of my research is (i) to understand how various signals that carry information are interacting and being conveyed and integrated at the plant level and (ii) to amplify discrete physiological knowledge into functional plant processes. All of that using Functional Structural Plant Models. I develop image analysis and phenotyping tools to help researchers in their scientific workflow. And when I am not implementing image analysis tools, I often play with plant models.