Unravelling the algorithms of plant form

草在形状和形态上表现出惊人的多样性。这些不同的形式是如何产生的？观察到的形状背后的基因是什么？计算机科学和建模能揭示什么潜在的机制？许多重要的主粮作物是禾本科作物（如小麦、玉米、水稻、大麦），它们的不同形态对产量有直接影响，因此对植物形态的基础研究同时也是对提高粮食生产和粮食安全途径的调查。该项目将与计算建模专家合作，揭示小麦和其他禾本科植物的结构多样性，并与领先的小麦遗传学家一起建立和验证小麦的计算模型。这些模型将建立并扩展捕获关键遗传成分的现有框架。

Grasses exhibit a stunning diversity in their shape and form. How do these different forms arise? What genetics underlie the observed shapes? What can computer science and modelling reveal about potential mechanisms? Many important staple crops are grasses (eg wheat, maize, rice, barley) and their different forms have a direct impact on yield, making this fundamental study into plant form simultaneously an investigation into routes for enhancing grain production and food security. This project will work with expert computational modellers to unravel the structural diversity of wheat and other grasses, and alongside leading wheat geneticists to build and validate computational models of whear. The models will build on and extend existing frameworks that capture key geneticcomponents.