Should you plant your tomato rows oriented north to south or east to west?
A new study challenges the conventional wisdom of row orientation.
Rachel Shekar
Rachel (she/her) is a Founding and Managing Editor of in silico Plants. She has a Master’s Degree in Plant Biology from the University of Illinois. She has over 15 years of academic journal editorial experience, including the founding of GCB Bioenergy and the management of Global Change Biology. Rachel has overseen the social media development that has been a major part of promotion of both journals.
Resolving interactions between plant structure and function
A new study reveals the impact of spatial resolution on accurately representing the interactions between plant canopy structure and function.
How will plant communities respond to climate change?
Functional-structural plant modelling is the key to predicting how plant communities will respond to climate change.
Prediciendo el rendimiento de arroz en condiciones de sequía
Modelos metabólicos y de crecimiento integrado predicen el metabolismo del arroz cultivado en condiciones normales y limitantes de agua.
Predicting rice yield under drought
Integrated growth and metabolic models predict the metabolism of rice growth under normal and water-limited conditions.
Wheat adaptation to climate change
Models fill in the data gaps to identify genotypes to maximize yield across the NE Australian wheat-belt under climate change.
The Why and How of Horizontally Expanding Leaf Patterns
A new study uses multiple approaches to determine why horizontally expanding leaf patterns exist and how they are formed.
Modeling the circadian clock
A novel circadian clock model based on real-world clocks delivers simplicity, entrainment, reliability, and accuracy.
The future of digital technologies for crops
Cyber physical technologies such as earth observation and biophysical crop modelling can play a major role in production, sustainability, and profitability of production systems in the face of climate change.
What drives plant diversity?
Computer simulations confirm that plant diversity can be explained by three assumptions.
A more realistic model of sucrose accumulation in sugarcane
Detailed kinetic modelling of sucrose translocation and metabolism captures the spatio-temporal evolution of the advection-diffusion-reaction system.
Man vs machine: Which model is superior at predicting phenology?
A comparison of the performance of knowledge-based models, data-driven machine-learned models, and an ensemble of both.
Evaluating yield components leads to yield improvement
Yield dissection models in tomato identify promising yield components and corresponding QTLs.
Is there a yield cost for limiting water loss during the hot hours of the day in wheat?
Evaluating how limited transpiration at high evaporative demand affect grain yield across Australia using computer models.