CPlantBox

Overview

CPlantBox is a functional-structural plant model built in a modular way, usable at several levels of complexity. It describes plant geometry through individual organs — roots, stems, and leaves — that evolve over time. The framework can model functional aspects such as water and carbon dynamics within the plant and provides general tools to build plant–soil-interaction models.

To solve partial differential equations, CPlantBox can be coupled with the finite-volume solver DuMu^x via the companion repository dumux-rosi.

Key Features

• Organ-level plant geometry (roots, stems, leaves) with temporal evolution
• Water and carbon transport models
• Coupling to DuMu^x for PDE-based soil simulations
• Python bindings for rapid scripting and post-processing
• RSML import/export support
• VTP visualisation output compatible with ParaView

Getting Started

Full installation instructions for Linux and macOS are available in the README. An interactive web demo is hosted at cplantbox.fz-juelich.de.

Documentation

API reference and class diagrams generated by Doxygen are located in the html/ subdirectory (built locally). Tutorial notebooks and example scripts can be found in the tutorial/ directory of the repository.