The hidden side of interaction: microbes and roots get together to improve plant resilience

R Balestrini, F Sillo, R Boussageon, D Wipf… - Journal of Plant …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Plants have evolved various belowground traits to adapt to the changing environments, and
root-associated soil microbes play a crucial role in the response, adaptation, and resilience …

A systematic review of effective hardware and software factors affecting high-throughput plant phenotyping

F Solimani, A Cardellicchio, M Nitti, A Lako, G Dimauro… - Information, 2023 - mdpi.com
Plant phenotyping studies the complex characteristics of plants, with the aim of evaluating
and assessing their condition and finding better exemplars. Recently, a new branch …

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 …

Seedling root system adaptation to water availability during maize domestication and global expansion

P Yu, C Li, M Li, X He, D Wang, H Li, C Marcon, Y Li… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
The maize root system has been reshaped by indirect selection during global adaptation to
new agricultural environments. In this study, we characterized the root systems of more than …

3D U-Net segmentation improves root system reconstruction from 3D MRI Images in automated and manual virtual reality work flows

T Selzner, J Horn, M Landl, A Pohlmeier… - Plant …, 2023 - spj.science.org
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used to image root systems grown in opaque soil.
However, reconstruction of root system architecture (RSA) from 3-dimensional (3D) MRI …

Uncovering natural variation in root system architecture and growth dynamics using a robotics-assisted phenomics platform

T LaRue, H Lindner, A Srinivas, M Exposito-Alonso… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
The plant kingdom contains a stunning array of complex morphologies easily observed
above-ground, but more challenging to visualize below-ground. Understanding the …

Automatic root length estimation from images acquired in situ without segmentation

F Khoroshevsky, K Zhou, S Chemweno, Y Edan… - Plant …, 2024 - spj.science.org
Image-based root phenotyping technologies, including the minirhizotron (MR), have
expanded our understanding of the in situ root responses to changing environmental …

Back to the roots: standardizing root length density terminology

TS Wacker, F van der Bom, BM Delory, D Vetterlein… - Plant and Soil, 2024 - Springer
The number of studies investigating root length has increased, particularly in the context of
root length measurements observed through windows such as minirhizotrons and …

Toward improved image‐based root phenotyping: handling temporal and cross‐site domain shifts in crop root segmentation models

T Banet, AG Smith, R McGrail… - The Plant Phenome …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Crop root segmentation models developed through deep learning have increased the
throughput of in situ crop phenotyping studies. However, models trained to identify roots in …

Automatic segmentation of cotton roots in high-resolution minirhizotron images based on improved OCRNet

Y Huang, J Yan, Y Zhang, W Ye, C Zhang… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Root phenotypic parameters are the important basis for studying the growth state of plants,
and root researchers obtain root phenotypic parameters mainly by analyzing root images …