Estimating Sink Parameters of Stochastic Functional-Structural Plant Models Using Organic Series-Continuous and Rhythmic Development

作     者：Kang, Mengzhen Hua, Jing Wang, Xiujuan de Reffye, Philippe Jaeger, Marc Akaffou, Selastique 

作者机构：Chinese Acad Sci Inst Automat State Key Lab Management & Control Complex Syst LIAMA Beijing Peoples R China Qingdao Acad Intelligent Ind Innovat Ctr Parallel Agr Qingdao Peoples R China Beijing Engn Res Ctr Intelligent Syst & Technol Beijing Peoples R China Univ Montpellier CNRS Amap Unit CIRADINRAIRD Montpellier France Univ Jean Lorougnon Guede Dept Seeds & Seedlings Prod Daloa Ivory Coast Cote Ivoire 

出 版 物：《FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE》 (Front. Plant Sci.)

年 卷 期：2018年第9卷

页      面：1688-1688页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 071001[理学-植物学] 07[理学] 

基　　金：National Science Foundation of China [61533019  31400623  91720000  31700315] 

主　　题：greenlab inverse method source-sink parameters functional-structural plant model stochastic development parameter estimation 

摘      要：Functional-structural plant models (FSPMs) generally simulate plant development and growth at the level of individual organs (leaves, flowers, internodes, etc.). Parameters that are not directly measurable, such as the sink strength of organs, can be estimated inversely by fitting the weights of organs along an axis (organic series) with the corresponding model output. To accommodate intracanopy variability among individual plants, stochastic FSPMs have been built by introducing the randomness in plant development;this presents a challenge in comparing model output and experimental data in parameter estimation since the plant axis contains individual organs with different amounts and weights. To achieve model calibration, the interaction between plant development and growth is disentangled by first computing the occurrence probabilities of each potential site of phytomer, as defined in the developmental model (potential structure). On this basis, the mean organic series is computed analytically to fit the organ-level target data. This process is applied for plants with continuous and rhythmic development simulated with different development parameter sets. The results are verified by Monte-Carlo simulation. Calibration tests are performed both in silico and on real plants. The analytical organic series are obtained for both continuous and rhythmic cases, and they match well with the results from Monte-Carlo simulation, and vice versa. This fitting process works well for both the simulated and real data sets;thus, the proposed method can solve the source-sink functions of stochastic plant architectures through a simplified approach to plant sampling. This work presents a generic method for estimating the sink parameters of a stochastic FSPM using statistical organ-level data, and it provides a method for sampling stems. The current work breaks a bottleneck in the application of FSPMs to real plants, creating the opportunity for broad applications.