DynamicRoots: A Software Platform for the Reconstruction and Analysis of Growing Plant Roots.
basic_science · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 26030757.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0127657 and PMC identifier 4452513.
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Abstract
We present a software platform for reconstructing and analyzing the growth of a plant root system from a time-series of 3D voxelized shapes. It aligns the shapes with each other, constructs a geometric graph representation together with the function that records the time of growth, and organizes the branches into a hierarchy that reflects the order of creation. The software includes the automatic computation of structural and dynamic traits for each root in the system enabling the quantification of growth on fine-scale. These are important advances in plant phenotyping with applications to the study of genetic and environmental influences on growth.
Medical subject headings
- Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
- Plant Roots
- Software