🌿 cPlant / GreenLab Team

Modeling plant growth and development for agriculture and beyond

cPlant, formerly known as GreenLab, which was a LIAMA project launched in 1998, is Associate Team of INRIA Digiplant Project.
The cPlant team focuses on modeling plant growth and development, developing and applying GreenLab model for different kinds of applications, by using methods from mathematics, automation, software engineering, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, computer graphics, and rendering techniques.
Current research activities include digital twin of vertical farm, digital twin of controlled ecological life-supporting system, agricultural intelligent service (disease diagnose, crop planning, etc.).

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GreenLab

GreenLab 植物功能结构模型

The team's core functional-structural plant model (FSPM) describing p…

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Plant Factory

植物工厂与数字孪生

Digital twin and optimal control for vertical farms and controlled ec…

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Crop Planning

种植规划与农业智能服务

Crop planning based on price forecasting and reinforcement learning, …

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Plant Phenotyping

植物表型与数字孪生

Plant digital twins built from phenotypic measurement and model-based…

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Latest publications

Smart Management of Sand-Breaking Systems for Taklimakan SandSea Highway: A Parallel Intelligence and Fuzzy Control Approach

Fangle Chang, Xiujuan Wang, Mengzhen Kang*, Yu Tal, Jiahong Yang, Jiaqiang Lei, Fei-Yue Wang

IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2024, doi:10.1109/TCSS.2024.3413795.

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Parallel intelligence in three decades: a historical review and future perspective on ACP and cyber physical social systems

Xingxia Wang, Jing Yang, Yuhang Liu, Yutong Wang, Fei-Yue Wang, Mengzhen Kang, Yonglin Tian, Imre Rudas, Lingxi Li, Maria Pia Fanti, Bassam Alrifaee, Muhammet Deveci, Deepak Mishra, Muhammad Khurram Khan, Long Chen, Philippe De Reffye

Artificial Intelligence Review, 2024, 57:255.

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A Novel Agricultural Data Sharing Mode Based on Rice Disease Identification

Mengmeng Zhang, Xiujuan Wang, Mengzhen Kang*, Jing Hua, Haoyu Wang, Feiyue Wang

Plant Diseases and Pests, 2024, 15(2): 9-16.

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Published Books

Plant Model Greenlab for Botany and Agronomy

Plant Model Greenlab for Botany and Agronomy

Philippe de Reffye, Mengzhen Kang, Marc Jaeger, Baogui Zhang (Eds.)

Springer Nature Singapore · 2025

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Tutorials

GreenScilab 1.0 Tutorial Complete usage guide for GreenScilab 1.0 (PDF…
GreenScilab 1: Chrysanthemum Guide to the chrysanthemum model in GreenScil…
GreenScilab 1: Tomato Guide to the tomato model in GreenScilab vers…

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