• Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences
  • Vol. 9, Issue 5, 1650037 (2016)
Wei Fang1, Hui Feng1, Wanneng Yang1、2、3, Lingfeng Duan3, Guoxing Chen4, Lizhong Xiong2, and Qian Liu1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics Huazhong University of Science and Technology 1037 Luoyu Rd. Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
  • 2National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Center of Plant Gene Research Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan 430070, P. R. China
  • 3College of Engineering Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan 430070, P. R. China
  • 4MOA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan 430070, P. R. China
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    DOI: 10.1142/s1793545816500371 Cite this Article
    Wei Fang, Hui Feng, Wanneng Yang, Lingfeng Duan, Guoxing Chen, Lizhong Xiong, Qian Liu. High-throughput volumetric reconstruction for 3D wheat plant architecture studies[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2016, 9(5): 1650037 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    For many tiller crops, the plant architecture (PA), including the plant fresh weight, plant height, number of tillers, tiller angle and stem diameter, significantly affects the grain yield. In this study, we propose a method based on volumetric reconstruction for high-throughput three-dimensional (3D) wheat PA studies. The proposed methodology involves plant volumetric reconstruction from multiple images, plant model processing and phenotypic parameter estimation and analysis. This study was performed on 80 Triticum aestivum plants, and the results were analyzed. Comparing the automated measurements with manual measurements, the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) in the plant height and the plant fresh weight was 2.71% (1.08 cm with an average plant height of 40.07 cm) and 10.06% (1.41 g with an average plant fresh weight of 14.06 g), respectively. The root mean square error (RMSE) was 1.37 cm and 1.79 g for the plant height and plant fresh weight, respectively. The correlation coefficients were 0.95 and 0.96 for the plant height and plant fresh weight, respectively. Additionally, the proposed methodology, including plant reconstruction, model processing and trait extraction, required only approximately 20 s on average per plant using parallel computing on a graphics processing unit (GPU), demonstrating that the methodology would be valuable for a high-throughput phenotyping platform.
    Wei Fang, Hui Feng, Wanneng Yang, Lingfeng Duan, Guoxing Chen, Lizhong Xiong, Qian Liu. High-throughput volumetric reconstruction for 3D wheat plant architecture studies[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2016, 9(5): 1650037
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