Affordable Imaging Lab for Noninvasive Analysis of Biomass and Early Vigour in Cereal Crops.

ABSTRACT: Plant phenotyping by imaging allows automated analysis of plants for various morphological and physiological traits. In this work, we developed a low-cost RGB imaging phenotyping lab (LCP lab) for low-throughput imaging and analysis using affordable imaging equipment and freely available software. LCP lab comprising RGB imaging and analysis pipeline is set up and demonstrated with early vigour analysis in wheat. Using this lab, a few hundred pots can be photographed in a day and the pots are tracked with QR codes. The software pipeline for both imaging and analysis is built from freely available software. The LCP lab was evaluated for early vigour analysis of five wheat cultivars. A high coefficient of determination (R² 0.94) was obtained between the dry weight and the pr

SUBMITTER: Armoniene R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5933035 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature