Next generation shovelomics: set up a tent and REST

Plant and Soil

Volumn 388, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 1-20

  Colombi, Tino ^a   Kirchgessner, Norbert ^a   Le Marié, Chantal Andrée ^a   York, Larry Matthew ^b   Lynch, Jonathan P ^b   Hund, Andreas ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated phenotyping; Heritability; Image processing; Maize; Root system architecture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922567641     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: 15735036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-015-2379-7     Document Type: Article

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