Deploying Fourier Coefficients to Unravel Soybean Canopy Diversity.

ABSTRACT: Soybean canopy outline is an important trait used to understand light interception ability, canopy closure rates, row spacing response, which in turn affects crop growth and yield, and directly impacts weed species germination and emergence. In this manuscript, we utilize a methodology that constructs geometric measures of the soybean canopy outline from digital images of canopies, allowing visualization of the genetic diversity as well as a rigorous quantification of shape parameters. Our choice of data analysis approach is partially dictated by the need to efficiently store and analyze large datasets, especially in the context of planned high-throughput phenotyping experiments to capture time evolution of canopy outline which will produce very large datasets. Using the Elliptical Fourier

SUBMITTER: Jubery TZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5243820 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature