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Conventional and hyperspectral time-series imaging of maize lines widely used in field trials.
GigaScience - 1 Feb 2018
Liang Zhikai, Pandey Piyush, Stoerger Vincent, Xu Yuhang, Qiu Yumou, Ge Yufeng, Schnable James C
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Background: Maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) is 1 of 3 crops, along with rice and wheat, responsible for more than one-half of all calories consumed around the world. Increasing the yield and stress tolerance of these crops is essential to meet the growing need for food. The cost and speed of plant phenotyping are currently the largest constraints on plant breeding efforts. Datasets linking new types of high-throughput...
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