Research areas
Orchards and IMApple
Together with our collaborators, we have developed a source-sink developmental model for Golden Delicious apple trees. The trees consume water and use light for photosynthesis. The result is growth and apples on the trees, as shown in this image:
We also studied the effect of pruning on orchards and co-developed an automatic pruning optimization algorithm that finds what branch should be removed to maximize light intake of a tree.