DIRT/3D: 3D root phenotyping for field-grown maize (Zea mays).

Abstract excerpt

The development of crops with deeper roots holds substantial promise to mitigate the consequences of climate change. Deeper roots are an essential factor to improve water uptake as a way to enhance crop resilience to drought, to increase nitrogen capture, to reduce fertilizer inputs, and to increase carbon sequestration from the atmosphere to improve soil organic fertility. A major bottleneck to achieving these...

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• Crops, Agricultural
• Imaging, Three-Dimensional
• Phenotype
• Plant Roots
• Zea mays