Recent advances in methods for in situ root phenotyping

A Li, L Zhu, W Xu, L Liu, G Teng - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Roots assist plants in absorbing water and nutrients from soil. Thus, they are vital to the
survival of nearly all land plants, considering that plants cannot move to seek optimal …

Functional phenomics for improved climate resilience in Nordic agriculture

T Roitsch, K Himanen, A Chawade… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The five Nordic countries span the most northern region for field cultivation in the world. This
presents challenges per se, with short growing seasons, long days, and a need for frost …

The Chlorophyll Fluorescence Parameter Fv/Fm Correlates with Loss of Grain Yield after Severe Drought in Three Wheat Genotypes Grown at Two CO2 …

SG Sommer, E Han, X Li, E Rosenqvist, F Liu - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Three genotypes of wheat grown at two CO2 concentrations were used in a drought
experiment, where water was withheld from the pots at anthesis until stomatal conductance …

Multi-year belowground data of minirhizotron facilities in Selhausen

L Lärm, FM Bauer, N Hermes, J van der Kruk… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
The production of crops secure the human food supply, but climate change is bringing new
challenges. Dynamic plant growth and corresponding environmental data are required to …

Embracing fine‐root system complexity in terrestrial ecosystem modeling

B Wang, ML McCormack, DM Ricciuto… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Projecting the dynamics and functioning of the biosphere requires a holistic consideration of
whole‐ecosystem processes. However, biases toward leaf, canopy, and soil modeling since …

[HTML][HTML] Deep-learning versus greyscale segmentation of voids in X-ray computed tomography images of filament-wound composites

S Upadhyay, AG Smith, D Vandepitte, SV Lomov… - Composites Part A …, 2024 - Elsevier
Filament-wound composites (FWC) are prone to high void contents, with large and complex-
shape voids. It is critical to characterise these voids accurately to understand their effect on …

Genome-wide association study of root system architecture in maize

B Wu, W Ren, L Zhao, Q Li, J Sun, F Chen, Q Pan - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Roots are important plant organs for the absorption of water and nutrients. To date, there
have been few genome-wide association studies of maize root system architecture (RSA) in …

[HTML][HTML] Deep learning with multisite data reveals the lasting effects of soil type, tillage and vegetation history on biopore genesis

E Han, JA Kirkegaard, R White, AG Smith… - Geoderma, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil biopore genesis is a dynamic and context-dependent process. Yet integrative
investigations of biopore genesis under varying soil type, tillage and vegetation history are …

Assessing the fine root growth dynamics of Norway spruce manipulated by air humidity and soil nitrogen with deep learning segmentation of smartphone images

M Sell, AG Smith, I Burdun, G Rohula-Okunev… - Plant and soil, 2022 - Springer
Purpose Measuring continuous root growth with less time-and resource-intensive methods
is challenging for plant ecologists. We propose an approach where photos of fine root …

RootPainter3D: Interactive‐machine‐learning enables rapid and accurate contouring for radiotherapy

AG Smith, J Petersen, C Terrones‐Campos… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Organ‐at‐risk contouring is still a bottleneck in radiotherapy, with many deep
learning methods falling short of promised results when evaluated on clinical data. We …