Recovering root system traits using image analysis exemplified by two-dimensional neutron radiography images of lupine

Plant Physiology

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 24-35

  Leitner, Daniel ^a   Felderer, Bernd ^b   Vontobel, Peter ^c   Schnepf, Andrea ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUPIN; MAIZE; METHODOLOGY; NEUTRON; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; RADIOGRAPHY; SOIL;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUPINUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEUTRONS; PLANT ROOTS; RADIOGRAPHY; SOIL; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84891773511     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.227892     Document Type: Article

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