Overcoming Challenges in Plant Biomechanics: Methodological Innovations and Technological Integration

Area of Science:

• Plant biomechanics as an interdisciplinary field.
• Integrating classical mechanics with modern biology for plant research.

Background:

• Plant biomechanics is crucial for understanding structure-function relationships in plants.
• It offers insights into plant phenotype, crop breeding, and ecological management.

Purpose of the Study:

• To comprehensively review plant biomechanics research.
• To analyze research perspectives, methodologies, and content.
• To explore future directions and applications.

Main Methods:

• Review of existing literature on plant biomechanics.
• Case study analysis of maize lodging across multiple scales.
• Identification of challenges and future research avenues.

Main Results:

• Analysis of research across molecular to population levels using maize lodging.
• Identification of challenges in methodology, theory, modeling, and 3D reconstruction.
• Exploration of integration with AI, multi-scale modeling, genetics, and biomimetics.

Conclusions:

• Plant biomechanics research faces challenges in methodology and modeling.
• Future directions include integrating AI, multi-scale modeling, and biomimetics.
• Advances will drive theoretical innovation and practical applications in plant science.