Advanced phenotyping and phenotype data analysis for the study of plant growth and development

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue AUG, 2015, Pages

  Rahaman, Md Matiur ^a   Chen, Dijun ^a,b   Gillani, Zeeshan ^a   Klukas, Christian ^b   Chen, Ming ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data analysis; Environmental factor; High throughput phenotyping; Imaging procedure; Plant phenotype

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940183064     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00619     Document Type: Review

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