title: A user-friendly means to scale from the biochemistry of photosynthesis to whole crop canopies and production in time and space - development of Java WIMOVAC.
abstract: Windows Intuitive Model of Vegetation response to Atmosphere and Climate Change (WIMOVAC) has been used widely as a generic modular mechanistically rich model of plant production. It can predict the responses of leaf and canopy carbon balance, as well as production in different environmental conditions, in particular those relevant to global change. Here, we introduce an open source Java user-friendly version of WIMOVAC. This software is platform independent and can be easily downloaded to a laptop and used without any prior programming skills. In this article, we describe the structure, equations and user guide and illustrate some potential applications of WIMOVAC.
authors.affiliation: CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology and State Key Laboratory for Hybrid Rice, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China.
authors.forename: Qingfeng
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Song
authors.affiliation: CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology and State Key Laboratory for Hybrid Rice, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China.
authors.forename: Dairui
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.|Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
authors.forename: Stephen P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Long
authors.affiliation: CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology and State Key Laboratory for Hybrid Rice, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China.
authors.forename: Xin-Guang
authors.initials: XG
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D002980:Climate; D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000502:physiology*; D017753:Ecosystem; D010788:Photosynthesis; D018515:Plant Leaves / Q000502:physiology*; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D013997:Time Factors; D014584:User-Computer Interface
keywords: biomass; breeding; climate change; crop yield; decision support system