Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) can be used as a tool to monitor changes in plant cell structures caused by organic soil contaminants. This study specifically focuses on the use of FTIR to determine the effect of benzotriazoles (BTs) on the structure of sunflower plants. BTs are corrosion inhibitors commonly used in aircraft deicing fluids, and they are found in chemical formulat...

Though often overlooked, the impact of seismic transient ground deformation on natural gas (NG) pipes can be highly adverse. Particularly, pipe elbows may undergo excessive in-plane bending demand and buckling. In this paper, a critical scenario coupling two industrial structures typically found in an NG processing plant is studied. High strain cross-sectional ovalization are probable during ea...

Understanding the effects of root-associated microbes in explaining plant community patterns represents a challenge in community ecology. Although typically overlooked, several lines of evidence point out that nonmycorrhizal, root endophytic fungi in the Ascomycota may have the potential to drive changes in plant community ecology given their ubiquitous presence, wide host ranges, and plant spe...

Striking changes in food web structure occur with alterations in resource supply. Like predator prey interactions, many mutualisms are also consumer resource interactions. However, no studies have explored how the structure of plant pollinator networks may be affected by nutrient enrichment. For three years, we enriched plots of subalpine plant communities with nitrogen and observed subsequent ...

This paper proposes a novel data structure for equationbased plant models. The data structure facilitates the plant modelling process starting from physics-based component creation through model simplification to Modelica model export.

Numerical simulation of plant growth has been facing a bottleneck due to the cumbersome computation implied by the complex plant topological structure. In this paper, we present a new mathematical model for plant growth, GreenLab, overcoming these difficulties. GreenLab is based on a powerful factorization of the plant structure. Fast simulation algorithms are derived for deterministic and stoc...