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Bakala HS, Devi J, Singh G, Singh I. Drought and heat stress: insights into tolerance mechanisms and breeding strategies for pigeonpea improvement. PLANTA 2024; 259:123. [PMID: 38622376 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-024-04401-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2024] [Accepted: 03/29/2024] [Indexed: 04/17/2024]
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MAIN CONCLUSION Pigeonpea has potential to foster sustainable agriculture and resilience in evolving climate change; understanding bio-physiological and molecular mechanisms of heat and drought stress tolerance is imperative to developing resilience cultivars. Pigeonpea is an important legume crop that has potential resilience in the face of evolving climate scenarios. However, compared to other legumes, there has been limited research on abiotic stress tolerance in pigeonpea, particularly towards drought stress (DS) and heat stress (HS). To address this gap, this review delves into the genetic, physiological, and molecular mechanisms that govern pigeonpea's response to DS and HS. It emphasizes the need to understand how this crop combats these stresses and exhibits different types of tolerance and adaptation mechanisms through component traits. The current article provides a comprehensive overview of the complex interplay of factors contributing to the resilience of pigeonpea under adverse environmental conditions. Furthermore, the review synthesizes information on major breeding techniques, encompassing both conventional methods and modern molecular omics-assisted tools and techniques. It highlights the potential of genomics and phenomics tools and their pivotal role in enhancing adaptability and resilience in pigeonpea. Despite the progress made in genomics, phenomics and big data analytics, the complexity of drought and heat tolerance in pigeonpea necessitate continuous exploration at multi-omic levels. High-throughput phenotyping (HTP) is crucial for gaining insights into perplexed interactions among genotype, environment, and management practices (GxExM). Thus, integration of advanced technologies in breeding programs is critical for developing pigeonpea varieties that can withstand the challenges posed by climate change. This review is expected to serve as a valuable resource for researchers, providing a deeper understanding of the mechanisms underlying abiotic stress tolerance in pigeonpea and offering insights into modern breeding strategies that can contribute to the development of resilient varieties suited for changing environmental conditions.
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- Harmeet Singh Bakala
- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, 141004, India
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- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, 141004, India
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- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, 141004, India.
- Texas A&M University, AgriLife Research Center, Beaumont, TX, 77713, USA.
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- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, 141004, India
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Gerullis M, Pieruschka R, Fahrner S, Hartl L, Schurr U, Heckelei T. From genes to policy: mission-oriented governance of plant-breeding research and technologies. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1235175. [PMID: 37731976 PMCID: PMC10507248 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1235175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2023] [Accepted: 08/07/2023] [Indexed: 09/22/2023]
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Mission-oriented governance of research focuses on inspirational, yet attainable goals and targets the sustainable development goals through innovation pathways. We disentangle its implications for plant breeding research and thus impacting the sustainability transformation of agricultural systems, as it requires improved crop varieties and management practices. Speedy success in plant breeding is vital to lower the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, increase crop resilience to climate stresses and reduce postharvest losses. A key question is how this success may come about? So far plant breeding research has ignored wider social systems feedbacks, but governance also failed to deliver a set of systemic breeding goals providing directionality and organization to research policy of the same. To address these challenges, we propose a heuristic illustrating the core elements needed for governing plant breeding research: Genetics, Environment, Management and Social system (GxExMxS) are the core elements for defining directions for future breeding. We illustrate this based on historic cases in context of current developments in plant phenotyping technologies and derive implications for governing research infrastructures and breeding programs. As part of mission-oriented governance we deem long-term investments into human resources and experimental set-ups for agricultural systems necessary to ensure a symbiotic relationship for private and public breeding actors and recommend fostering collaboration between social and natural sciences for working towards transdisciplinary collaboration.
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- Maria Gerullis
- Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
- Wheat and Oat Breeding Research, Institute for Crop Science and Plant Breeding, Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture, Freising, Germany
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- Plant Sciences, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences 2, Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany
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- Plant Sciences, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences 2, Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany
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- Wheat and Oat Breeding Research, Institute for Crop Science and Plant Breeding, Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture, Freising, Germany
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- Plant Sciences, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences 2, Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute for Food and Resource Economics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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Dipta B, Sood S, Devi R, Bhardwaj V, Mangal V, Thakur AK, Kumar V, Pandey N, Rathore A, Singh A. Digitalization of potato breeding program: Improving data collection and management. Heliyon 2023; 9:e12974. [PMID: 36747944 PMCID: PMC9898647 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e12974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2022] [Revised: 01/02/2023] [Accepted: 01/10/2023] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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A plant breeding program involves hundreds of experiments, each having number of entries, genealogy information, linked experimental design, lists of treatments, observed traits, and data analysis. The traditional method of arranging breeding program information and data recording and maintenance is not centralized and is always scattered in different file systems which is inconvenient for retrieving breeding information resulting in poor data management and the loss of crucial data. Data administration requires a significant amount of manpower and resources to maintain nurseries, trials, germplasm lines, and pedigree records. Further, data transcription in scattered spreadsheets and files leads to nomenclature and typing mistakes, which affects data analysis and selection decisions in breeding programs. The accurate data recording and management tools could improve the efficiency of breeding programs. Recent interventions in data management using computer-based breeding databases and informatics applications and tools have made the breeder's life easier. Because of its digital nature, the data obtained is improved even further, allowing for the acquisition of images, voice recording and other specific data kinds. Public breeding programs are far behind the industry in the use of data management tools and softwares. In this article, we have compiled the information on available data recording tools and breeding data management softwares with major emphasis on potato breeding data management.
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- Bhawna Dipta
- ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI), Shimla, Himachal Pradesh-171001, India
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- ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI), Shimla, Himachal Pradesh-171001, India,Corresponding author. ;
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- ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI), Shimla, Himachal Pradesh-171001, India
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- ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI), Shimla, Himachal Pradesh-171001, India
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- ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI), Shimla, Himachal Pradesh-171001, India
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- ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI), Shimla, Himachal Pradesh-171001, India
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- ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI), Shimla, Himachal Pradesh-171001, India
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- ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI), Shimla, Himachal Pradesh-171001, India
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- CGIAR Excellence in Breeding Platform (EiB), International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), India
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- Division of Horticultural Science, KAB-II, Pusa, New Delhi-110012, India
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Yang M, Ding S. Algorithm for appearance simulation of plant diseases based on symptom classification. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:935157. [PMID: 35923887 PMCID: PMC9340076 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.935157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2022] [Accepted: 06/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Plant disease visualization simulation belongs to an important research area at the intersection of computer application technology and plant pathology. However, due to the variety of plant diseases and their complex causes, how to achieve realistic, flexible, and universal plant disease simulation is still a problem to be explored in depth. Based on the principles of plant disease prediction, a time-varying generic model of diseases affected by common environmental factors was established, and interactive environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity, and time were set to express the plant disease spread and color change processes through a unified calculation. Using the apparent symptoms as the basis for plant disease classification, simulation algorithms for different symptom types were propose. The composition of disease spots was deconstructed from a computer simulation perspective, and the simulation of plant diseases with symptoms such as discoloration, powdery mildew, ring pattern, rust spot, and scatter was realized based on the combined application of visualization techniques such as image processing, noise optimization and texture synthesis. To verify the effectiveness of the algorithm, a simulation similarity test method based on deep learning was proposed to test the similarity with the recognition accuracy of symptom types, and the overall accuracy reaches 87%. The experimental results showed that the algorithm in this paper can realistically and effectively simulate five common plant disease forms. It provided a useful reference for the popularization of plant disease knowledge and visualization teaching, and also had certain research value and application value in the fields of film and television advertising, games, and entertainment.
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- Meng Yang
- School of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
- Engineering Research Center for Forestry-Oriented Intelligent Information Processing of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Beijing, China
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- School of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
- Engineering Research Center for Forestry-Oriented Intelligent Information Processing of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Beijing, China
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Zingaretti LM, Monfort A, Pérez-Enciso M. Automatic Fruit Morphology Phenome and Genetic Analysis: An Application in the Octoploid Strawberry. PLANT PHENOMICS (WASHINGTON, D.C.) 2021; 2021:9812910. [PMID: 34056620 PMCID: PMC8139333 DOI: 10.34133/2021/9812910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2020] [Accepted: 04/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Automatizing phenotype measurement will decisively contribute to increase plant breeding efficiency. Among phenotypes, morphological traits are relevant in many fruit breeding programs, as appearance influences consumer preference. Often, these traits are manually or semiautomatically obtained. Yet, fruit morphology evaluation can be enhanced using fully automatized procedures and digital images provide a cost-effective opportunity for this purpose. Here, we present an automatized pipeline for comprehensive phenomic and genetic analysis of morphology traits extracted from internal and external strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa) images. The pipeline segments, classifies, and labels the images and extracts conformation features, including linear (area, perimeter, height, width, circularity, shape descriptor, ratio between height and width) and multivariate (Fourier elliptical components and Generalized Procrustes) statistics. Internal color patterns are obtained using an autoencoder to smooth out the image. In addition, we develop a variational autoencoder to automatically detect the most likely number of underlying shapes. Bayesian modeling is employed to estimate both additive and dominance effects for all traits. As expected, conformational traits are clearly heritable. Interestingly, dominance variance is higher than the additive component for most of the traits. Overall, we show that fruit shape and color can be quickly and automatically evaluated and are moderately heritable. Although we study strawberry images, the algorithm can be applied to other fruits, as shown in the GitHub repository.
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- Laura M. Zingaretti
- Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
- Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA), 08193 Barcelona, Spain
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- Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
- ICREA, Passeig de Lluís Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
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Miao T, Wen W, Li Y, Wu S, Zhu C, Guo X. Label3DMaize: toolkit for 3D point cloud data annotation of maize shoots. Gigascience 2021; 10:6272094. [PMID: 33963385 PMCID: PMC8105162 DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giab031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2020] [Revised: 03/10/2021] [Accepted: 04/12/2021] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Background The 3D point cloud is the most direct and effective data form for studying plant structure and morphology. In point cloud studies, the point cloud segmentation of individual plants to organs directly determines the accuracy of organ-level phenotype estimation and the reliability of the 3D plant reconstruction. However, highly accurate, automatic, and robust point cloud segmentation approaches for plants are unavailable. Thus, the high-throughput segmentation of many shoots is challenging. Although deep learning can feasibly solve this issue, software tools for 3D point cloud annotation to construct the training dataset are lacking. Results We propose a top-to-down point cloud segmentation algorithm using optimal transportation distance for maize shoots. We apply our point cloud annotation toolkit for maize shoots, Label3DMaize, to achieve semi-automatic point cloud segmentation and annotation of maize shoots at different growth stages, through a series of operations, including stem segmentation, coarse segmentation, fine segmentation, and sample-based segmentation. The toolkit takes ∼4–10 minutes to segment a maize shoot and consumes 10–20% of the total time if only coarse segmentation is required. Fine segmentation is more detailed than coarse segmentation, especially at the organ connection regions. The accuracy of coarse segmentation can reach 97.2% that of fine segmentation. Conclusion Label3DMaize integrates point cloud segmentation algorithms and manual interactive operations, realizing semi-automatic point cloud segmentation of maize shoots at different growth stages. The toolkit provides a practical data annotation tool for further online segmentation research based on deep learning and is expected to promote automatic point cloud processing of various plants.
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- Teng Miao
- College of Information and Electrical Engineering, Shenyang Agricultural University, Dongling Road, Shenhe District, Liaoning Province, Shenyang 110161, China
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- Beijing Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture, 11#Shuguang Huayuan Middle Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100097, China.,National Engineering Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture, 11#Shuguang Huayuan Middle Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100097, China.,Beijing Key Lab of Digital Plant, 11#Shuguang Huayuan Middle Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100097, China
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- National Engineering Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture, 11#Shuguang Huayuan Middle Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100097, China.,Beijing Key Lab of Digital Plant, 11#Shuguang Huayuan Middle Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100097, China
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- Beijing Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture, 11#Shuguang Huayuan Middle Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100097, China.,National Engineering Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture, 11#Shuguang Huayuan Middle Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100097, China.,Beijing Key Lab of Digital Plant, 11#Shuguang Huayuan Middle Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100097, China
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- College of Information and Electrical Engineering, Shenyang Agricultural University, Dongling Road, Shenhe District, Liaoning Province, Shenyang 110161, China
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- Beijing Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture, 11#Shuguang Huayuan Middle Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100097, China.,National Engineering Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture, 11#Shuguang Huayuan Middle Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100097, China.,Beijing Key Lab of Digital Plant, 11#Shuguang Huayuan Middle Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100097, China
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Understanding Growth Dynamics and Yield Prediction of Sorghum Using High Temporal Resolution UAV Imagery Time Series and Machine Learning. REMOTE SENSING 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/rs13091763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) carrying multispectral cameras are increasingly being used for high-throughput phenotyping (HTP) of above-ground traits of crops to study genetic diversity, resource use efficiency and responses to abiotic or biotic stresses. There is significant unexplored potential for repeated data collection through a field season to reveal information on the rates of growth and provide predictions of the final yield. Generating such information early in the season would create opportunities for more efficient in-depth phenotyping and germplasm selection. This study tested the use of high-resolution time-series imagery (5 or 10 sampling dates) to understand the relationships between growth dynamics, temporal resolution and end-of-season above-ground biomass (AGB) in 869 diverse accessions of highly productive (mean AGB = 23.4 Mg/Ha), photoperiod sensitive sorghum. Canopy surface height (CSM), ground cover (GC), and five common spectral indices were considered as features of the crop phenotype. Spline curve fitting was used to integrate data from single flights into continuous time courses. Random Forest was used to predict end-of-season AGB from aerial imagery, and to identify the most informative variables driving predictions. Improved prediction of end-of-season AGB (RMSE reduction of 0.24 Mg/Ha) was achieved earlier in the growing season (10 to 20 days) by leveraging early- and mid-season measurement of the rate of change of geometric and spectral features. Early in the season, dynamic traits describing the rates of change of CSM and GC predicted end-of-season AGB best. Late in the season, CSM on a given date was the most influential predictor of end-of-season AGB. The power to predict end-of-season AGB was greatest at 50 days after planting, accounting for 63% of variance across this very diverse germplasm collection with modest error (RMSE 1.8 Mg/ha). End-of-season AGB could be predicted equally well when spline fitting was performed on data collected from five flights versus 10 flights over the growing season. This demonstrates a more valuable and efficient approach to using UAVs for HTP, while also proposing strategies to add further value.
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Li D, Quan C, Song Z, Li X, Yu G, Li C, Muhammad A. High-Throughput Plant Phenotyping Platform (HT3P) as a Novel Tool for Estimating Agronomic Traits From the Lab to the Field. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2021; 8:623705. [PMID: 33520974 PMCID: PMC7838587 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2020.623705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2020] [Accepted: 12/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Food scarcity, population growth, and global climate change have propelled crop yield growth driven by high-throughput phenotyping into the era of big data. However, access to large-scale phenotypic data has now become a critical barrier that phenomics urgently must overcome. Fortunately, the high-throughput plant phenotyping platform (HT3P), employing advanced sensors and data collection systems, can take full advantage of non-destructive and high-throughput methods to monitor, quantify, and evaluate specific phenotypes for large-scale agricultural experiments, and it can effectively perform phenotypic tasks that traditional phenotyping could not do. In this way, HT3Ps are novel and powerful tools, for which various commercial, customized, and even self-developed ones have been recently introduced in rising numbers. Here, we review these HT3Ps in nearly 7 years from greenhouses and growth chambers to the field, and from ground-based proximal phenotyping to aerial large-scale remote sensing. Platform configurations, novelties, operating modes, current developments, as well the strengths and weaknesses of diverse types of HT3Ps are thoroughly and clearly described. Then, miscellaneous combinations of HT3Ps for comparative validation and comprehensive analysis are systematically present, for the first time. Finally, we consider current phenotypic challenges and provide fresh perspectives on future development trends of HT3Ps. This review aims to provide ideas, thoughts, and insights for the optimal selection, exploitation, and utilization of HT3Ps, and thereby pave the way to break through current phenotyping bottlenecks in botany.
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- Daoliang Li
- National Innovation Center for Digital Fishery, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- Beijing Engineering and Technology Research Centre for Internet of Things in Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- China-EU Center for Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, China Agriculture University, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Agriculture Information Acquisition Technology, Ministry of Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- National Innovation Center for Digital Fishery, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- Beijing Engineering and Technology Research Centre for Internet of Things in Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- China-EU Center for Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, China Agriculture University, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Agriculture Information Acquisition Technology, Ministry of Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- National Innovation Center for Digital Fishery, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- Beijing Engineering and Technology Research Centre for Internet of Things in Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- China-EU Center for Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, China Agriculture University, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Agriculture Information Acquisition Technology, Ministry of Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychology, College of Education, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- National Innovation Center for Digital Fishery, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- Beijing Engineering and Technology Research Centre for Internet of Things in Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- China-EU Center for Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, China Agriculture University, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Agriculture Information Acquisition Technology, Ministry of Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- National Innovation Center for Digital Fishery, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- Beijing Engineering and Technology Research Centre for Internet of Things in Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- China-EU Center for Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, China Agriculture University, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Agriculture Information Acquisition Technology, Ministry of Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- National Innovation Center for Digital Fishery, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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Jubery TZ, Carley CN, Singh A, Sarkar S, Ganapathysubramanian B, Singh AK. Using Machine Learning to Develop a Fully Automated Soybean Nodule Acquisition Pipeline (SNAP). PLANT PHENOMICS (WASHINGTON, D.C.) 2021; 2021:9834746. [PMID: 34396150 PMCID: PMC8343430 DOI: 10.34133/2021/9834746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2020] [Accepted: 06/21/2021] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
Abstract
Nodules form on plant roots through the symbiotic relationship between soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.) roots and bacteria (Bradyrhizobium japonicum) and are an important structure where atmospheric nitrogen (N2) is fixed into bioavailable ammonia (NH3) for plant growth and development. Nodule quantification on soybean roots is a laborious and tedious task; therefore, assessment is frequently done on a numerical scale that allows for rapid phenotyping, but is less informative and suffers from subjectivity. We report the Soybean Nodule Acquisition Pipeline (SNAP) for nodule quantification that combines RetinaNet and UNet deep learning architectures for object (i.e., nodule) detection and segmentation. SNAP was built using data from 691 unique roots from diverse soybean genotypes, vegetative growth stages, and field locations and has a good model fit (R 2 = 0.99). SNAP reduces the human labor and inconsistencies of counting nodules, while acquiring quantifiable traits related to nodule growth, location, and distribution on roots. The ability of SNAP to phenotype nodules on soybean roots at a higher throughput enables researchers to assess the genetic and environmental factors, and their interactions on nodulation from an early development stage. The application of SNAP in research and breeding pipelines may lead to more nitrogen use efficiency for soybean and other legume species cultivars, as well as enhanced insight into the plant-Bradyrhizobium relationship.
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- Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
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Fasoula DA, Ioannides IM, Omirou M. Phenotyping and Plant Breeding: Overcoming the Barriers. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 10:1713. [PMID: 31998353 PMCID: PMC6962186 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2019.01713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2019] [Accepted: 12/05/2019] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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- Dionysia A. Fasoula
- Department of Plant Breeding, Agricultural Research Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Department of Agrobiotechnology, Agricultural Research Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Department of Agrobiotechnology, Agricultural Research Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus
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Yasrab R, Atkinson JA, Wells DM, French AP, Pridmore TP, Pound MP. RootNav 2.0: Deep learning for automatic navigation of complex plant root architectures. Gigascience 2019; 8:5614712. [PMID: 31702012 DOI: 10.1101/709147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2019] [Revised: 08/23/2019] [Accepted: 09/22/2019] [Indexed: 05/21/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND In recent years quantitative analysis of root growth has become increasingly important as a way to explore the influence of abiotic stress such as high temperature and drought on a plant's ability to take up water and nutrients. Segmentation and feature extraction of plant roots from images presents a significant computer vision challenge. Root images contain complicated structures, variations in size, background, occlusion, clutter and variation in lighting conditions. We present a new image analysis approach that provides fully automatic extraction of complex root system architectures from a range of plant species in varied imaging set-ups. Driven by modern deep-learning approaches, RootNav 2.0 replaces previously manual and semi-automatic feature extraction with an extremely deep multi-task convolutional neural network architecture. The network also locates seeds, first order and second order root tips to drive a search algorithm seeking optimal paths throughout the image, extracting accurate architectures without user interaction. RESULTS We develop and train a novel deep network architecture to explicitly combine local pixel information with global scene information in order to accurately segment small root features across high-resolution images. The proposed method was evaluated on images of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) from a seedling assay. Compared with semi-automatic analysis via the original RootNav tool, the proposed method demonstrated comparable accuracy, with a 10-fold increase in speed. The network was able to adapt to different plant species via transfer learning, offering similar accuracy when transferred to an Arabidopsis thaliana plate assay. A final instance of transfer learning, to images of Brassica napus from a hydroponic assay, still demonstrated good accuracy despite many fewer training images. CONCLUSIONS We present RootNav 2.0, a new approach to root image analysis driven by a deep neural network. The tool can be adapted to new image domains with a reduced number of images, and offers substantial speed improvements over semi-automatic and manual approaches. The tool outputs root architectures in the widely accepted RSML standard, for which numerous analysis packages exist (http://rootsystemml.github.io/), as well as segmentation masks compatible with other automated measurement tools. The tool will provide researchers with the ability to analyse root systems at larget scales than ever before, at a time when large scale genomic studies have made this more important than ever.
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- Robail Yasrab
- School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road, Nottingham NG8 1BB, UK
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- School of Biosciences, Sutton Bonington Campus, University of Nottingham, Nottingham LE12 5RD, UK
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- School of Biosciences, Sutton Bonington Campus, University of Nottingham, Nottingham LE12 5RD, UK
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- School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road, Nottingham NG8 1BB, UK
- School of Biosciences, Sutton Bonington Campus, University of Nottingham, Nottingham LE12 5RD, UK
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- School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road, Nottingham NG8 1BB, UK
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- School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road, Nottingham NG8 1BB, UK
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Beauchêne K, Leroy F, Fournier A, Huet C, Bonnefoy M, Lorgeou J, de Solan B, Piquemal B, Thomas S, Cohan JP. Management and Characterization of Abiotic Stress via PhénoField ®, a High-Throughput Field Phenotyping Platform. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2019; 10:904. [PMID: 31379897 PMCID: PMC6646674 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2018] [Accepted: 06/26/2019] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
Abstract
In order to evaluate the impact of water deficit in field conditions, researchers or breeders must set up large experiment networks in very restrictive field environments. Experience shows that half of the field trials are not relevant because of climatic conditions that do not allow the stress scenario to be tested. The PhénoField® platform is the first field based infrastructure in the European Union to ensure protection against rainfall for a large number of plots, coupled with the non-invasive acquisition of crops' phenotype. In this paper, we will highlight the PhénoField® production capability using data from 2017-wheat trial. The innovative approach of the PhénoField® platform consists in the use of automatic irrigating rainout shelters coupled with high throughput field phenotyping to complete conventional phenotyping and micrometeorological densified measurements. Firstly, to test various abiotic stresses, automatic mobile rainout shelters allow fine management of fertilization or irrigation by driving daily the intensity and period of the application of the desired limiting factor on the evaluated crop. This management is based on micro-meteorological measurements coupled with a simulation of a carbon, water and nitrogen crop budget. Furthermore, as high-throughput plant-phenotyping under controlled conditions is well advanced, comparable evaluation in field conditions is enabled through phenotyping gantries equipped with various optical sensors. This approach, giving access to either similar or innovative variables compared manual measurements, is moreover distinguished by its capacity for dynamic analysis. Thus, the interactions between genotypes and the environment can be deciphered and better detailed since this gives access not only to the environmental data but also to plant responses to limiting hydric and nitrogen conditions. Further data analyses provide access to the curve parameters of various indicator kinetics, all the more integrative and relevant of plant behavior under stressful conditions. All these specificities of the PhénoField® platform open the way to the improvement of various categories of crop models, the fine characterization of variety behavior throughout the growth cycle and the evaluation of particular sensors better suited to a specific research question.
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Affiliation(s)
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- ARVALIS – Institut du Végétal, Ouzouer-le-Marché, France
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- ARVALIS – Institut du Végétal, Ouzouer-le-Marché, France
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