The functional-structural plant models (FSPMs) address the complex interaction between plant architecture and biological and physical processes driving plant production and development. They combine plant architecture, molecular genetics, plant physiology, and environmental influences with computer science and mathematics. They have been applied e.g. in agricultural sciences, horticulture, forest ecology, remote sensing and analysis of plant morphogenesis. The Finnish Society of Forest Science, Finnish Forest Research Institute, and the Department of Forest Sciences at the University of Helsinki organised together the seventh international conference on these models.
156 scientists from 21 countries gathered in Saariselkä, Finland, for discussing functional-structural plant models. The group photo was taken during the conference excursion in Tuulispää hill with Lake Inari in the background.
Conference dinner was served in the Sámi Culture Centre Sajos in Inari.
Check the conference proceedings
The proceedings of the conference can be found on the Open Journal System (OJS) platform of the Finnish Society of Forest Science. You can read the proceedings through this link.
Special issue of Annals of Botany, which contains selected presentations from the congress is free to read for all.
