The HorchiModel 2023  topics are intended to cover modelling of crops and horticultural farms in greenhouses and orchards: 

• Topic 1: Decision support modelling tools for sustainable horticulture.

- Water, nutrient and energy management.

- Climate control systems.

- Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) models.

- Plant status and stress response.

- Plants and sensors.

- Digital twins.

   

• Topic 2: Methodological issues for plant systems modelling.

- Data acquisition and model calibration.

- Multi-scale, integrative approaches.

- Model selection and evaluation.

- Model reduction and simplification strategies.

- Model combination and scale integration.

   

• Topic 3: Modeling plant and organ development and physiology.

- Plant/organ growth and development.

- Carbon partitioning.

- Fruit quality.

- Biotic stress control.

   

• Topic 4: Modeling plant architecture.

- Plants 3D reconstruction.

- Plants architecture and production.

- Functional–structural plant modelling.

- Light interception.

   

• Topic 5: Modelling plant adaptation to climate change.

- Crop and climate.

- Plant defence and disease control.

- Phenology.

- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).