Why work and discuss the basic principles of plant modelling 50 years after the first plant models?

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2039-2041

  Tardieu, Francois ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BOTANY; CHEMISTRY; EDITORIAL; HISTORY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PLANT;

ALGORITHMS; BOTANY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS;

EID: 77953008254     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erq135     Document Type: Editorial

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