TY - JOUR
T1 - DynamicRoots
T2 - A software platform for the reconstruction and analysis of growing plant roots
AU - Symonova, Olga
AU - Topp, Christopher N.
AU - Edelsbrunner, Herbert
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Symonova et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2015/6/1
Y1 - 2015/6/1
N2 - We present a software platform for reconstructing and analyzing the growth of a plant root system from a time-series of 3D voxelized shapes. It aligns the shapes with each other, constructs a geometric graph representation together with the function that records the time of growth, and organizes the branches into a hierarchy that reflects the order of creation. The software includes the automatic computation of structural and dynamic traits for each root in the system enabling the quantification of growth on fine-scale. These are important advances in plant phenotyping with applications to the study of genetic and environmental influences on growth.
AB - We present a software platform for reconstructing and analyzing the growth of a plant root system from a time-series of 3D voxelized shapes. It aligns the shapes with each other, constructs a geometric graph representation together with the function that records the time of growth, and organizes the branches into a hierarchy that reflects the order of creation. The software includes the automatic computation of structural and dynamic traits for each root in the system enabling the quantification of growth on fine-scale. These are important advances in plant phenotyping with applications to the study of genetic and environmental influences on growth.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0127657
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0127657
M3 - Article
C2 - 26030757
AN - SCOPUS:84931275708
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 10
JO - PloS one
JF - PloS one
IS - 6
M1 - e0127657
ER -