BACKGROUND With up to two hundred published contributions, the GreenLab mathematical model of plant growth developed since 2000 under Sino-French cooperation for agronomic applications, is descended from the structural models developed in the AMAP unit (de Reffye, 1988) that characterize the development of plants and encompass them in a conceptual mathematical framework. The model also incorporates widely recognized crop model concepts (thermal time, light use efficiency, light interception), adapting them to the level of the individual plant. SCOPE Such long-term research work calls for an overview at some point. That is the objective of this review paper, which retraces the main history of the model's development and its current status, highlighting three aspects: (i) What are the key features of the GreenLab model? (ii) How can the model be a guide for defining relevant measurement strategies and experimental protocols? (iii) What kind of applications can such a model address? This last question is answered using case studies as illustrations, and through the discussion. CONCLUSIONS The results obtained over several decades illustrate a key feature of the GreenLab model: owing to its concise mathematical formulation based on the factorization of plant structure, it comes along with dedicated methods and experimental protocols for its parameter estimation, in the deterministic or stochastic cases, at single plant or population levels. Besides providing a reliable statistical framework, this intense and long-term research effort has provided new insights into the internal trophic regulations of many plant species and new guidelines for genetic improvement or optimization of crop systems.

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在农学中使用 GreenLab 模型进行了二十年的研究

背景 2000 年以来，在中法农业应用合作下开发的 GreenLab 植物生长数学模型已发表多达 200 篇论文，源自 AMAP 单元 (de Reffye, 1988) 开发的结构模型，该模型描述了植物生长的发展特征。植物并将它们包含在概念性数学框架中。该模型还结合了广泛认可的作物模型概念（热时间、光利用效率、光拦截），使它们适应单个植物的水平。范围 这种长期的研究工作需要在某个时候进行概述。这就是这篇综述论文的目的，它回顾了模型发展的主要历史及其现状，强调了三个方面：(i) GreenLab 模型的主要特征是什么？(ii) 该模型如何成为定义相关测量策略和实验方案的指南？(iii) 这样的模型可以解决什么样的应用？最后一个问题是通过案例研究作为说明并通过讨论来回答的。结论 几十年来获得的结果说明了 GreenLab 模型的一个关键特征：由于其基于植物结构分解的简明数学公式，在确定性或随机情况下，它配备了用于参数估计的专用方法和实验协议，在单一植物或种群水平。除了提供可靠的统计框架，