3D Simulation Service for Cereal Plant Architechture

The 3D Simulation Service for Cereal Plant Architecture is an open-source tool within the OpenAlea platform that simulates the growth and development of cereal plants from a small set of parameters. It generates realistic 3D plant canopies for studying light interception, designing architectural ideotypes, and producing annotated synthetic datasets for phenotyping and deep learning applications. Validated on wheat, maize, sorghum, and rice, the service supports researchers and breeders by linking plant architecture with biophysical and ecophysiological models. It is distributed as a cross-platform Python package and maintained by CIRAD and INRAE. 

The simulation service is part of the OpenAlea platform (https://openalea.rtfd.io). Code source is hosted on https://github.com/openalea and will be released on a conda repository.

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