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ArticlePlant methods2017

A "Do-It-Yourself" phenotyping system: measuring growth and morphology throughout the diel cycle in rosette shaped plants.

Andrei Dobrescu, Livia C T Scorza, Sotirios A Tsaftaris, Alistair J McCormick

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Article in Plant methods, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22 citing papers in PubMed, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrei DobrescuInstitute of Digital Communications, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3FB UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8571-7526
Livia C T ScorzaDaniel Rutherford Building, SynthSys and Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, The King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3BF UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0145-3592
Sotirios A TsaftarisInstitute of Digital Communications, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3FB UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8795-9294
Alistair J McCormickDaniel Rutherford Building, SynthSys and Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, The King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3BF UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7255-872X
University of Edinburgh · GB

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundImprovements in high-throughput phenotyping technologies are rapidly expanding the scope and capacity of plant biology studies to measure growth traits. Nevertheless, the costs of commercial phenotyping equipment and infrastructure remain prohibitively expensive for wide-scale uptake, while academic solutions can require significant local expertise. Here we present a low-cost methodology for plant biologists to build their own phenotyping system for quantifying growth rates and phenotypic characteristics of

resultsWe constructed an image capture system consisting of a near infra-red (NIR, 940 nm) LED panel with a mounted Raspberry Pi NoIR camera and developed a MatLab-based software module (iDIEL Plant) to characterise rosette expansion. Our software was able to accurately segment and characterise multiple rosettes within an image, regardless of plant arrangement or genotype, and batch process image sets. To further validate our system, wild-type Arabidopsis plants (Col-0) and two mutant lines with reduced Rubisco contents, pale leaves and slow growth phenotypes (

conclusionOur methodology offers a straightforward solution for setting up automated, scalable and low-cost phenotyping facilities in a wide range of lab environments that could greatly increase the processing power and scalability of Arabidopsis soil growth experiments.

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2DArabidopsis thalianaImage analysisLow costNear-infrared LED arrayRubisco

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