Abstract

The sugar beet is the primary source of sugar in Europe and large parts of the world. Tools to determine plant traits with high precision and high throughput are required for the breeding process to quantify the effects of genetic and environmental factors on plant development and yield. In this work, we propose a method to gain a limited yet significant set of descriptive parameters for sugar beet plants. Using optical methods, a 3D representation of each plant is generated and subsequently segmented manually. A customized leaf model developed specifically for sugar beet plants then models the leaves, yielding a vector of descriptive parameters for each leaf. The resulting data is then compared to plant assessments of the same plants performed by sugar beet experts in order to evaluate the viability of automatic plant assessment in the sugar beet breeding process.

Details

Title
DETERMINATION OF DETAILED MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES FOR PHENOTYPING OF SUGAR BEET PLANTS USING 3D-STEREOSCOPIC DATA
Author
Scholz, O 1 ; Uhrmann, F 1 ; Wolff, A 2 ; Pieger, K 1 ; Penk, D 3 

 Fraunhofer Development Center X-ray Technology, 90768 Fürth, Germany; Fraunhofer Development Center X-ray Technology, 90768 Fürth, Germany 
 Strube Research GmbH, Hauptstr. 1, 38387 Söllingen, Germany; Strube Research GmbH, Hauptstr. 1, 38387 Söllingen, Germany 
 Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Computer Graphics Group, 91058 Erlangen, Germany; Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Computer Graphics Group, 91058 Erlangen, Germany 
Pages
161-166
Publication year
2019
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Copernicus GmbH
ISSN
21949042
e-ISSN
21949050
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2585414830
Copyright
© 2019. This work is published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.