Plant Phenotyping and Machine Learning
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Development and Morphogenesis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 298
Special Issue Editors
2. Key Laboratory of Agricultural Equipment for the Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River, Ministry of Agriculture, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: plant phenotyping; computer vision; machine learning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plant phenotyping quantifies the structural and functional attributes of plants, essential for non-destructive and continuous crop morphology and physiology analysis. The complexity of plant growth, including variations in size, morphology, color, texture, and organ development, as well as the impact of environmental factors, poses challenges in plant phenotyping. Machine learning, particularly deep learning, offers robust solutions for complex issues, providing new tools for analyzing, predicting, and understanding plant traits. This Special Issue invites submissions addressing plant phenotyping and machine learning. Specific topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following:
- Image-based phenotyping, including plant classification, segmentation, and detection.
- Extraction and selection of plant phenotypic traits.
- Plant growth monitoring, analysis, modeling, and prediction.
- Disease detection and monitoring.
- Assessment and prediction of plant resistance (including biotic and abiotic stresses).
- Temporal image processing and analysis of plants.
- Data analysis algorithm and software for plant phenotyping.
- Phenotype prediction and classification.
Dr. Lingfeng Duan
Dr. Ni Jiang
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Plants is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- plant phenotyping
- machine learning
- image processing
- growth analysis
- data analysis
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