The issue of nutrient deficiency in plants and an effective uptake of nutrients from the soil is a problem affecting crop-focused industries in the modern age. This project is concerned with expanding an existing model for nutrient extraction using one exudate-producing root into a two root system.
A set of boundary conditions is to model two roots and experiment with the proximity of two identical roots and the exudation rate with the intention to model intercropping. Then we derive a system with two exudates produced by two roots which we use for further numerical experiments with the model's parameters.
Overall, it was found that root distance so that the zones of roots of influence intersect is important for interaction between the roots and their mutual benefit.
The final report of this project is available online at Overleaf.