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Plants serve as the basis for all food, fuel, and fiber. Plants have evolved a very sophisticated way to build cells, tissues, and organs. They also have a highly diverse metabolism and a life long ability to adapt their growth and development at their disposal. All of these individual mechanisms have been studied extensively, and many models created based on data collected in these studies. However, until recently, these models relied on fairly limited and rather qualitative data from various plant species. In this project the researchers aim to create a new generation of data describing the mechanical, metabolic and environmental properties of plant growth. By limiting their investigations to a single species, Arabidopsis thaliana, they aim to produce a set of models which can ultimately be unified into one model spanning all the data which can be used to comprehensively understand plant growth in all its complexity.