The Effect of Self-Loading on the Mechano-Stability and Stalk Lodging Resistance of Plant Stems
C. J. Stubbs, Y. Oduntan, S. Noble, T. Keep, D. J. Robertson
This paper investigates how self-loading and external loading interact to affect plant stem structural integrity and provides tools to account for self-weight in mechanical phenotyping experiments.
bioRxiv · Mar 21, 2020 · PreprintBioengineering