Minirhizotron measurements can supplement deep soil coring to evaluate root growth of winter wheat when certain pitfalls are avoided.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Root growth is most commonly determined with the destructive soil core method, which is very labor-intensive and destroys the plants at the sampling spots. The alternative minirhizotron technique allows for root growth observation throughout the growing season at the same spot but necessitates a high-throughput image analysis for being labor- and cost-efficient. In this study, wheat root development in agronomically varied situations was monitored with minirhizotrons over the growing period in two years, paralleled by destructive samplings at two dates. The aims of this study were to (i) adapt an existing CNN-based segmentation method for wheat minirhizotron images, (ii) verify the results of minirhizotron measurements with root growth data obtained by the destructive so

SUBMITTER: Arnhold J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11650824 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature