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user-friendly constructions in XL to evoke numerically suitable solvers for sub-
models based on ordinary differential equations (cf. Chap. 6).
Further Readings
For further reading on the topic, the topic “The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants” (Prusinkiewicz and
Lindenmayer 1990) is still an excellent introduction. The original source regarding the recently
developed language XL is Kniemeyer (2008), which also contains numerous examples. The use of
functional-structural plant models in applications can best be traced by looking into the
proceedings of the FSPM conferences and workshops: Bouchon et al. (1997), Sievanen et al.
(1997), Kastner-Maresch et al. (1998), Andrieu (1999), LeRoux and Sinoquet (2000), Hu and
Jaeger (2003), Godin and Sinoquet (2005), Vos et al. (2007), Fourcaud et al. (2008), Hanan and
Prusinkiewicz (2008).
