A thermodynamic model for plant growth,validated with Pinus sylvestris data
Plants are open, irreversible and non-equilibrium systems that live via mass- and energy exchanges with the environment, and therefore, are amenable to a thermodynamic treatment: in fact, they may be considered “energy converters” because their metabolism is nothing else than a controlled ability to transform energy from one form (solar) into another (chemical energy suitable to cell metabolism) and to activate and maintain reactions at cellular- and molecular level -promoting the plant growth.