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Morphogenesis
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Cultured fruit; growing a tomato without a plant
Great progress has been made in developmental biology in recent decades. In animal biology this has led to the advent of ‘lab-grown meat’. (Also known as ‘cultured meat’). We have proposed ‘cultured fruit’ as a sustainable technology for industrial fruit production In this process, fruits...
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Growing tomatoes in vertical farms: the interaction between multiple environmental factors and their effect on plant physiology, yield and fruit quality
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Morphological effect of increased penetration resistance
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Quantifying the importance of 3D leaf and stem architecture for a Functional-Structural Plant Modelling of dwarf tomatoes in vertical farming
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Enter the (To)matrix: Exploring the tomato-verse through a Functional-Structural Plant Model of dwarf tomatoes to identify architectural ideotypes for vertical farming
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How's it growing? Estimating growth from depth images
Neural networks can be pretty good at estimating the weight of a plant from a single top-down image. "Can be", because it only works well with small plants that have a simple, open structure. Complex plants, or plants in a dense canopy, are too occluded for an accurate estimate from a...
Questions or other ideas for thesis topics? Please contact the HPP student coordinator Katharina Hanika.