High throughput phenotyping to accelerate crop breeding and monitoring of diseases in the field

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 38, Issue , 2017, Pages 184-192

  Shakoor, Nadia ^a   Lee, Scott ^a   Mockler, Todd C ^a  

^a DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; CROP; MACHINE LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY;

BREEDING; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; MACHINE LEARNING;

EID: 85025090008     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2017.05.006     Document Type: Review

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