Calendar Name: seminars
Scheduled for: Thursday, June 7 2012, 11:00 - 12:30
Event text: Prof Gerrit Beemster
Laboratory for Molecular Plant Physiology and
Biotechnology
University of Antwerp
Antwerp
BELGIUM
Details: �Virtual Leaf 2.0: An improved tool to model plant
growth regulation�
ABSTRACT
Virtual leaf is a software package that we developed for
the simulation of hormone transport and growth
regulation in multicellular plant organs. Over the last
few years we have further refined this tool, so that we
will be able to release a completely new version soon.
Improvements encompass technical aspects such as a
version tracking system for the software development,
output to a standard format (hdf5) for import in
external viewers and code optimization for faster
performance. In terms of biology we have developed
adaptations to enable the modelling of root tipgrowth.
We also implemented more physiological realistic models
for the regulation of cell expansion and cell division.
Finally we have developed bifurcation analysis
techniques to investigate the effect and importance of
individual model parameters on the overall behaviour.
