CropRootBox.jl

CropRootBox.jl implements a root system architecture simulation algorithm described in CRootBox model. Our implementation is written in a domain-specific language based on Julia using Cropbox framework. While Cropbox framework was primarily designed for helping development of conventional process-based crop models with less dynamic structural development in mind, it is still capable of handling complex structure as envisioned by functional-structural plant models (FSPM).

Installation

using Pkg
Pkg.add("CropRootBox")

Getting Started

using Cropbox
using CropRootBox

BaseRoot is a common system inherited by other systems representing each root type, i.e., PrimaryRoot, FirstOrderLateralRoot, and SecondOrderLateralRoot in this example.

parameters(CropRootBox.BaseRoot; alias = true)

Config for 1 system:

Here is an example configuration for simulating maize root growth. Some parameter values are annotated with standard deviation after ± indicating actual values are randomly sampled from normal distribution as needed.

config = @config(
    :RootArchitecture => :maxB => 5,
    :BaseRoot => :T => [
        # P F S
          0 1 0 ; # P
          0 0 1 ; # F
          0 0 0 ; # S
    ],
    :PrimaryRoot => (;
        lb = 0.1 ± 0.01,
        la = 18.0 ± 1.8,
        ln = 0.6 ± 0.06,
        lmax = 89.7 ± 7.4,
        r = 6.0 ± 0.6,
        Δx = 0.5,
        σ = 10,
        θ = 80 ± 8,
        N = 1.5,
        a = 0.04 ± 0.004,
        color = CropRootBox.RGBA(1, 0, 0, 1),
    ),
    :FirstOrderLateralRoot => (;
        lb = 0.2 ± 0.04,
        la = 0.4 ± 0.04,
        ln = 0.4 ± 0.03,
        lmax = 0.6 ± 1.6,
        r = 2.0 ± 0.2,
        Δx = 0.1,
        σ = 20,
        θ = 70 ± 15,
        N = 1,
        a = 0.03 ± 0.003,
        color = CropRootBox.RGBA(0, 1, 0, 1),
    ),
    :SecondOrderLateralRoot => (;
        lb = 0,
        la = 0.4 ± 0.02,
        ln = 0,
        lmax = 0.4,
        r = 2.0 ± 0.2,
        Δx = 0.1,
        σ = 20,
        θ = 70 ± 10,
        N = 2,
        a = 0.02 ± 0.002,
        color = CropRootBox.RGBA(0, 0, 1, 1),
    )
)

An instance of RootArchitecture system is created with an instance of Pot describing a boundary of root growth.

b = instance(CropRootBox.Pot)
s = instance(CropRootBox.RootArchitecture; config, options = (; box = b), seed = 0)
r = simulate!(s, stop = 100u"d")

Progress:   0%[>                          ]  ETA: 0:59:58 ( 1.50  s/it)
Progress:   0%[>                          ]  ETA: 0:27:41 ( 0.69  s/it)
Progress:   2%[>                          ]  ETA: 0:06:08 ( 0.16  s/it)
Progress:  14%[===>                       ]  ETA: 0:00:55 (26.54 ms/it)
Progress:  29%[=======>                   ]  ETA: 0:00:24 (13.97 ms/it)
Progress:  76%[====================>      ]  ETA: 0:00:03 ( 5.91 ms/it)
Progress: 100%[===========================] Time: 0:00:11 ( 4.69 ms/it)

After 100 days of simulation, we can draw a rendering of root structure bounded in the pot.

using GLMakie
scn = CropRootBox.render(s)
GLMakie.save("root_maize.png", scn; size = (1600, 3200))

For more information about using the framework such as instance() and simulate() functions, please refer to the Cropbox documentation.