Recovering complete plant root system architectures from soil via X-ray μ-Computed Tomography

Plant Methods

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Mairhofer, Stefan ^a   Zappala, Susan ^a   Tracy, Saoirse ^a   Sturrock, Craig ^a   Bennett, Malcolm John ^a   Mooney, Sacha Jon ^a   Pridmore, Tony Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D; Image analysis; Root phenotyping; Root systems architecture; X ray Computed Tomography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875081985     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4811-9-8     Document Type: Article

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