Computer-vision analysis of seedling responses to light and gravity

Plant Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 374-381

  Miller, Nathan D ^a   Parks, Brian M ^b   Spalding, Edgar P ^a,b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Gravitropism; Morphometrics; Photomorphogenesis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; GENES; GRAVITATION; MUTAGENESIS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

GRAVITROPISM; MORPHOMETRICS; PHOTOMORPHOGENESIS;

SEED;

ALGORITHM; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BARREL MEDIC; GRAVITROPISM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHOTOTROPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SEEDLING;

ALGORITHMS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; GRAVITROPISM; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; PHOTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; PLANT ROOTS; SEEDLING;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA;

EID: 34547673437     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2007.03237.x     Document Type: Article

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