Growth and Development of higher plants

This work package aims to collect the knowledge required for the construction of plausible biological models and to provide multi-scale generic tools for biological data integration, using the root and the root/shoot communication studied in the other work packages as a model. As far as possible, any development in this work package will adhere to computational standards developed in current international initiatives aiming at modelling plant processes. A crucial novelty in the work package is the unprecedented combination between molecular / cellular (P1C, EU1) and architectural (P4C) modelling approaches. The work package will be organized in three distinct sub-work packages that interact and overlap in time. Each sub work package focuses on a specific range of scales or on specific steps towards this objective.