CPlantBox

A plant’s development is strongly linked to the water and carbon flows in the soil–plant–atmosphere continuum. Climate change will alter the water and carbon cycles and will affect plant phenotypes. CPlantBox is a three-dimensional functional–structural soil-plant modelling framework that can simulate mechanistically and dynamically the feedback loops between a plant’s three-dimensional development and the water, solute and carbon flows in plant and soil. It is useful to evaluate the sustainability of (future) genotype–environment–management combinations. Among other things, it allows to predict carbon allocation under stress conditions, assess phenotype performance dynamically or assess management measures on SOM dynamics and soil carbon sequestration.