A Digital Image-Based Phenotyping Platform for Analyzing Root Shape Attributes in Carrot.

ABSTRACT: Root shape in carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus), which ranges from long and tapered to short and blunt, has been used for at least several centuries to classify carrot cultivars. The subjectivity involved in determining market class hinders the establishment of metric-based standards and is ill-suited to dissecting the genetic basis of such quantitative phenotypes. Advances in digital image acquisition and analysis has enabled new methods for quantifying sizes of plant structures and shapes, but in order to dissect the genetic control of the shape features that define market class in carrot, a tool is required that quantifies the specific shape features used by humans in distinguishing between classes. This study reports the construction and demonstration of the first suc

SUBMITTER: Brainard SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8244657 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature