SimRoot: Modelling and visualization of root systems

Plant and Soil

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 139-151

  Lynch, Jonathan P ^a   Nielsen, Kai L ^a   Davis, Robert D ^b   Jablokow, Andrei G ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

C programming language; Computer modelling; Data structure; Fractal geometry; Kinematics; Root system; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030794341     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004276724310     Document Type: Article

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