Aerial Imagery Analysis – Quantifying Appearance and Number of Sorghum Heads for Applications in Breeding and Agronomy

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) is a C4 tropical grass that plays an essential role in providing nutrition to humans and livestock, particularly in marginal rainfall environments. The timing of head development and the number of heads per unit area are key adaptation traits to consider in agrono...

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Main Authors: Wei Guo, Bangyou Zheng, Andries B. Potgieter, Julien Diot, Kakeru Watanabe, Koji Noshita, David R. Jordan, Xuemin Wang, James Watson, Seishi Ninomiya, Scott C. Chapman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpls.2018.01544/full