Musca

A multi-scale source–sink model exploring carbon allocation in plants on different, user-defined, topological scales.

Description

Musca is a model dedicated to the simulation of carbon allocation in plants. It has been first used to simulate fruit growth variation within apple tree structure. Nevertheless its formalisms based on MTGs are generic enough to be adapted to a large set of plants including grapevine.

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Scientific publications

  • Reyes F, Pallas B, Pradal C, Vaggi F, Zanotelli D, Tagliavini M, Gianelle D, Costes E (2020) MuSCA: a multi-scale source–sink carbon allocation model to explore carbon allocation in plants. An application to static apple tree structures. Annals of Botany 126: 571–585. 📄