RootScan: Software for high-throughput analysis of root anatomical traits

Plant and Soil

Volumn 357, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 189-203

  Burton, Amy L ^a,b   Williams, Michael ^a   Lynch, Jonathan P ^a   Brown, Kathleen M ^a,c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerenchyma; Anatomy; Maize; Phenotyping; Root; Trait

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGRONOMY; ANATOMY; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA QUALITY; DATA SET; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAIZE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIXEL; ROOT SYSTEM; SOFTWARE; XYLEM;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84864121180     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-012-1138-2     Document Type: Article

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