期刊
PLANT JOURNAL
卷 89, 期 1, 页码 169-178出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13320
关键词
Zea mays; image analysis; kernel shape; kernel spacing; Fourier transform; kernel counting; ear size; high-throughput phenotyping; technical advance
资金
- National Science Foundation grant [IOS-1444456]
- United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Hatch grant [WIS01639]
- Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1444456] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Grain yield of the maize plant depends on the sizes, shapes, and numbers of ears and the kernels they bear. An automated pipeline that can measure these components of yield from easily-obtained digital images is needed to advance our understanding of this globally important crop. Here we present three custom algorithms designed to compute such yield components automatically from digital images acquired by a lowcost platform. One algorithm determines the average space each kernel occupies along the cob axis using a sliding-window Fourier transform analysis of image intensity features. A second counts individual kernels removed from ears, including those in clusters. A third measures each kernel's major and minor axis after a Bayesian analysis of contour points identifies the kernel tip. Dimensionless ear and kernel shape traits that may interrelate yield components are measured by principal components analysis of contour point sets. Increased objectivity and speed compared to typical manual methods are achieved without loss of accuracy as evidenced by high correlations with ground truth measurements and simulated data. Millimeter-scale differences among ear, cob, and kernel traits that ranged more than 2.5-fold across a diverse group of inbred maize lines were resolved. This system for measuring maize ear, cob, and kernel attributes is being used by multiple research groups as an automated Web service running on community high-throughput computing and distributed data storage infrastructure. Users may create their own workflow using the source code that is staged for download on a public repository.
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