Session: Symposium--the Modeling Road Less Travelled - Alternative Paradigms for Crop Modeling

Division: ASA Section: Climatology and Modeling

Title: Symposium--the Modeling Road Less Travelled - Alternative Paradigms for Crop Modeling

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Cosponsor: ASA Section: Climatology and Modeling
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Format: Oral Symposium
Keywords: crops, decision support, modeling and physiology

Session Description: Process-based crop models focus on predicting plant physiological and developmental processes in the context of the soil-plant-atmospheric continuum. While the use of these models composes the majority of agriculture decision support applications, alternative modeling approaches exist that may provide other unique insights. This symposium will bring together expert modelers from outside the 'traditional' process-based approach, and will include topics ranging from function-structural plant models to gene network approaches.