High-throughput phenotyping of sorghum plant height using an unmanned aerial vehicle and its application to genomic prediction modeling

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Watanabe, Kakeru ^a   Guo, Wei ^a   Arai, Keigo ^b   Takanashi, Hideki ^a   Kajiya Kanegae, Hiromi ^a   Kobayashi, Masaaki ^c   Yano, Kentaro ^c   Tokunaga, Tsuyoshi ^d   Fujiwara, Toru ^a   Tsutsumi, Nobuhiro ^a   Iwat, Hiroyoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Air4D Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d EARTHNOTE Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Genomic prediction; High throughput phenotyping; Near infrared (NIR); Sorghum plant height; UAV remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017318727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00421     Document Type: Article

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