High-Throughput Phenotyping of Morphological Seed and Fruit Characteristics Using X-Ray Computed Tomography.

ABSTRACT: Traditional seed and fruit phenotyping are mainly accomplished by manual measurement or extraction of morphological properties from two-dimensional images. These methods are not only in low-throughput but also unable to collect their three-dimensional (3D) characteristics and internal morphology. X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanning, which provides a convenient means of non-destructively recording the external and internal 3D structures of seeds and fruits, offers a potential to overcome these limitations. However, the current CT equipment cannot be adopted to scan seeds and fruits with high throughput. And there is no specialized software for automatic extraction of phenotypes from CT images. Here, we introduced a high-throughput image acquisition approach by mounting a specially desig

SUBMITTER: Liu W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7688911 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature