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CoverageTool: A semi-automated graphic software: applications for plant phenotyping
- Source :
- Plant Methods, Plant Methods, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- BioMed Central, 2019.
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Abstract
- Background Characterization and quantification of visual plant traits is often limited to the use of tools and software that were developed to address a specific context, making them unsuitable for other applications. CoverageTool is flexible multi-purpose software capable of area calculation in cm2, as well as coverage area in percentages, suitable for a wide range of applications. Results Here we present a novel, semi-automated and robust tool for detailed characterization of visual plant traits. We demonstrate and discuss the application of this tool to quantify a broad spectrum of plant phenotypes/traits such as: tissue culture parameters, ground surface covered by annual plant canopy, root and leaf projected surface area, and leaf senescence area ratio. The CoverageTool software provides easy to use functions to analyze images. While use of CoverageTool involves subjective operator color selections, applying them uniformly to full sets of samples makes it possible to provide quantitative comparison between test subjects. Conclusion The tool is simple and straightforward, yet suitable for the quantification of biological and environmental effects on a wide variety of visual plant traits. This tool has been very useful in quantifying different plant phenotypes in several recently published studies, and may be useful for many applications. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s13007-019-0472-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine
Ground coverage
Computer science
Context (language use)
YCbCr
Plant Science
lcsh:Plant culture
computer.software_genre
Senescence
01 natural sciences
Image analysis
03 medical and health sciences
Software
Genetics
lcsh:SB1-1110
Plant traits
lcsh:QH301-705.5
RGB
business.industry
Plant phenotyping
DPI
Tissue culture
030104 developmental biology
Graphics software
lcsh:Biology (General)
Phenotyping
Area ratio
RGB color model
Root and leaf projected surface area
Data mining
business
computer
010606 plant biology & botany
Biotechnology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17464811
- Volume :
- 15
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Plant Methods
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f0f26561eba35e48aeeeb75c2485b4a8