Course: Three-Dimensional Modeling of Plant Architecture and Function (3400-411)

Persons:

• apl ProfDr Simone Graeff-Hönninger (verantwortlich)
• Dr. Sebastian Munz (begleitend)

Type of Course:

lecture with exercise

In-Class Hours Per Week:

4

Contents:

This course combines lectures, exercises and a self-conducted project with the focus on plant architecture and its influence on light interception and photosynthesis of plants. The students will learn to describe plant architecture (spatial and temporal ar-rangement of plant organs) and measure it with manual and digital methods with the aim to construct their three-dimensional plant model with the software platform GroIMP. The model will then be used to analyze the effect of different plant architectures and cropping arrangements on light interception and photosynthesis and finally productivity.

Literature:

Literature will be presented in the lecture.

Location:

Hohenheim

Module:

• 3400-410 Three-Dimensional Modeling of Plant Architecture and Function (compulsory)