Imaging Technology in Horticultural Production
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 February 2025 | Viewed by 140
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biotechnology; biofortification; vegetables
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Interests: vegetable breeding; biotic stress in vegetables; abiotic stress in vegetables
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Interests: plant development; fertilizer; genetics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plant phenotyping through images is an innovative area in agriculture that is in full development. It is capable of offering faster and lower-cost solutions to important problems when compared to traditionally used methods. It is based on the use of optical methods to monitor the morphology, physiology, and biochemistry of one or several plants simultaneously, allowing assessments of responses to their interaction with the environment. To capture high-quality images, different cameras and sensors can be used to collect an extensive amount of information and plant responses. In addition, they can be combined with artificial intelligence, further enhancing the results obtained. However, in horticulture, the use of images is still incipient. Horticulture encompasses several species of great importance for the world economy and presents many challenges to be explored using images, such as monitoring plant development, defining harvest points, identifying lesions caused by pests and disease symptoms, and characterizing germplasms and response to biotic and abiotic stresses. Therefore, it is important to advance research using images in horticulture with the aim of enhancing its applications and presenting its benefits.
We accept the submission of articles from the following areas:
- Image-based high-throughput phenotyping in horticultural crops;
- High-throughput phenotyping to monitor growth rates and plant architecture in horticultural crops;
- Comparison of sensors for phenotyping horticultural crops;
- Use of images to monitor different types of biotic and abiotic stress in horticultural crops;
- Feasibility of using images for horticultural crop production processes;
- Using images to discover the physiological and metabolic bases of performance variations in horticultural crops.
Prof. Dr. Ana Carolina S. Siquieroli
Prof. Dr. Gabriel M. Maciel
Dr. Jose Magno Queiroz Luz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- imaging technology
- plant phenotyping
- sensors
- cameras
- image monitoring
- horticultural crops
- phenotyping horticultural crops
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