3D reconstruction enables high-throughput phenotyping and quantitative genetic analysis of phyllotaxy.

ABSTRACT: Differences in canopy architecture play a role in determining both the light and water use efficiency. Canopy architecture is determined by several component traits, including leaf length, width, number, angle, and phyllotaxy. Phyllotaxy may be among the most difficult of the leaf canopy traits to measure accurately across large numbers of individual plants. As a result, in simulations of the leaf canopies of grain crops such as maize and sorghum, this trait is frequently approximated as alternating 180° angles between sequential leaves. We explore the feasibility of extracting direct measurements of the phyllotaxy of sequential leaves from 3D reconstructions of individual sorghum plants generated from 2D calibrated images and test the assumption of consistently alternating phyllotaxy acro

SUBMITTER: Davis JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12710043 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature