Since whole-genome sequencing of many crops has been achieved, crop functional
genomics studies have stepped into the big-data and high-throughput era. However …

Major improvements in crop yield are needed to keep pace with population growth and
climate change. While plant breeding efforts have greatly benefited from advances in …

Plant phenomics is a new avenue for linking plant genomics and environmental studies,
thereby improving plant breeding and management. Remote sensing techniques have …

Global agriculture is facing major challenges to ensure global food security, such as the
need to breed high-yielding crops adapted to future climates and the identification of …

Plant phenotyping refers to a quantitative description of the plant's anatomical,
ontogenetical, physiological and biochemical properties. Today, rapid developments are …

With increasing demand to support and accelerate progress in breeding for novel traits, the
plant research community faces the need to accurately measure increasingly large numbers …

Significantly improved crop varieties are urgently needed to feed the rapidly growing human
population under changing climates. While genome sequence information and excellent …

Background Although draft genomes are available for most agronomically important plant
species, the majority are incomplete, highly fragmented, and often riddled with assembly …

Image-based approaches to plant phenotyping are gaining momentum providing fertile
ground for several interesting vision tasks where fine-grained categorization is necessary …

Image-based plant phenotyping is a growing application area of computer vision in
agriculture. A key task is the segmentation of all individual leaves in images. Here we focus …