Efficient stochastic Functional Structural sympodial Shrubs Modelling based on structural hierarchy. Application to Guayule

International audienceIntroduction: Functional structuralmodelling of shrubs, especially aromatic plants, confronts with a fine consideration of their structures, often complex and with many reiterations, especially for sympodial plants. The models and their simulations are therefore complex and costly to use for the selection and definition of crop routes. Here we propose alternative solutions suitablefor sympodial plants that do not show neoformations, by reducing the structural complexity to that of a monocaulplant