Corn is a global crop that requires the breeding of superior varieties. A crucial aspect of the breeding process is the accurate extraction of phenotypic parameters from corn plants. The existing challenges in phenotypic parameter extraction include...
Metabolically healthy (MH) and metabolically unhealthy (MUH) phenotypes can be present in any subject independently of their body mass index (BMI). However, factors related to the presence of these phenotypes are poorly understood. Therefore, the aim...
High-throughput measurements of phenotypic parameters in plants generate substantial data, significantly improving agricultural production optimization and breeding efficiency. However, these measurements face several challenges, including environmen...
Crop leaf length, perimeter, and area serve as vital phenotypic indicators of crop growth status, the measurement of which is important for crop monitoring and yield estimation. However, processing a leaf point cloud is often challenging due to clutt...
To address the limitations of traditional manual measurements of phenotypes, a study focused on the rapid acquisition of phenotypic parameters in wheat grains was conducted. This research introduced an index for bud-point determination, which offers...
In response to the structural changes of tomato seedlings, traditional image techniques are difficult to accurately quantify key morphological parameters, such as leaf area, internode length, and mutual occlusion between organs. Therefore, this paper...
Pepper is a vital crop with extensive agricultural and industrial applications. Accurate phenotypic measurement, including plant height and stem diameter, is essential for assessing yield and quality, yet manual measurement is time-consuming and labo...
Traditional phenotyping relies on experts visually examining plants for physical traits like size, color, or disease presence. Measurements are taken manually using rulers, scales, or color charts, with all data recorded by hand. This labor-intensive...
The main objective of this study was to analyze the effects of the inbreeding degree in high-producing primiparous dairy cows genotypically and phenotypically evaluated and its impacts on production and reproductive parameters. Eighty Holstein–...
Deep learning techniques play an important role in plant phenotype research, due to their powerful data processing and modeling capabilities. Multi-task learning has been researched for plant phenotype analysis, which can combine different plant trai...
Phenotypic traits and phenotypic extraction at the seedling stage of oilseed rape play a crucial role in assessing oilseed rape growth, breeding new varieties and estimating yield. Manual phenotyping not only consumes a lot of labor and time costs, b...
Analyzing three-dimensional (3D) phenotypic parameters of maize seedlings is of significant importance for maize cultivation and selection. However, existing methods often struggle to balance cost, efficiency, and accuracy, particularly when capturin...
The accurate and efficient screening of waterlogging-tolerant cultivars is an effective way to mitigate waterlogging damages. An experiment was conducted to evaluate the performance of 28 wheat varieties mainly planted in the middle and lower reaches...
Hyperspectral technology offers significant potential for non-invasive monitoring and prediction of morphological parameters in plants. In this study, UV−VIS−NIR−SWIR reflectance hyperspectral data were collected from Nicotiana taba...
Tuta absoluta is a major pest attacking tomato crops. This invasive species emerged in Europe (Spain) in 2006, and 3 years later it spread to Portugal. In 2009/2010, it was recorded for the first time in the Azores archipelago. Macrolophus pygmaeus i...
Rice tiller angle is a key agronomic trait that regulates plant architecture and plays a critical role in determining rice yield. Given that tiller angle is regulated by multiple genes, it is important to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) associ...
Background: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorder with highly variable progression and survival. Identifying early prognostic indicators is essential for patient stratification and management. Objectives: T...
The maturity and affordability of light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors have made possible the quick acquisition of 3D point cloud data to monitor phenotypic traits of vegetation canopies. However, while the majority of studies focused on the r...
New isopropylated fused azaisocytosine-containing congeners (I–VI) have previously been reported as promising anticancer drug candidates, so further research on these molecules in the preclinical development phase is fully justified and necessa...
Ovum pick up and in vitro embryo production (OPU-IVEP) is an essential technique in the dairy industry. The production efficiency of OPU-IVEP is significantly influenced by various factors, and phenotypic and genetic characteristics are highly variab...
Background/Objectives: Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rare autoimmune peripheral neuropathy that affects both the myelin sheaths and axons of the peripheral nervous system. It is the leading cause of acute neuromuscular paralysis wor...
Stomata play a crucial role in plant immune responses, with their morphological characteristics closely linked to disease resistance. Accurate detection and analysis of stomatal phenotypic parameters are essential for soybean disease resistance resea...
The phenotypic parameters of root systems are vital in reflecting the influence of genes and the environment on plants, and three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction is an important method for obtaining phenotypic parameters. Based on the characteristics...
Phenotypic traits, such as plant height, internode length, and node count, are essential indicators of the growth status of tomato plants, carrying significant implications for research on genetic breeding and cultivation management. Deep learning al...
Efficient and non-destructive extraction of organ-level phenotypic parameters of sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) plants is a key bottleneck in current sesame phenotyping research. To address this issue, this study proposes a method for organ segmentation...
The simultaneous analysis of the maximum number of chemical elements present in plant tissues provides more comprehensive information about their chemical constitution and increases the number of characteristics for the selection process in various p...
Phenotypic characteristics of fruit particles, such as projection area, can reflect the growth status and physiological changes of grapes. However, complex backgrounds and overlaps always constrain accurate grape border recognition and detection of f...
To address the inefficiency and significant errors in the manual measurement of phenotypic parameters of Phoebe zhennan seedlings, a non-destructive automated method based on a 3D point cloud was proposed for extracting phenotypic parameters of stem...
The genome project increased appreciation of genetic complexity underlying disease phenotypes: many genes contribute each phenotype and each gene contributes multiple phenotypes. The aspiration of predicting common disease in individuals has evolved...
As root electrical capacitance (CR*) was assumed to depend on the stem properties, the efficiency of measuring CR* at flowering for whole-plant phenotyping was assessed in five wheat cultivars in three replicate plots over two years. Linear regressio...
Patients with nonclassic phenotypes (NCP)—more advanced stages of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)—constitute an intriguing and heterogeneous group that is difficult to diagnose, risk-stratify, and treat, and often neglected in research...
Bermudagrass (Cynodon spp.) is a forage and turf crop commonly used worldwide. The USDA bermudagrass germplasm set is composed of plant introductions (PI’s) collected around the world and contains different Cynodon species, primarily C. dactylon. The...
Yeast is a fermentation agent for producing bioethanol as an environmentally friendly alternative energy. Therefore, this study aims to find novel yeasts with the capability to persevere under acidic, high temperature, and high sugar content conditio...
Dabieshan cattle (DBSC) are a valuable genetic resource for indigenous cattle breeds in China. It is a small to medium-sized breed with slower growth, but with good meat quality and fat deposition. Genetic markers could be used for the estimation of...
Plant height (PH), leaf width (LW), and leaf angle (LA) are critical phenotypic parameters in maize that reliably indicate plant growth status, lodging resistance, and yield potential. While various lidar-based methods have been developed for acquiri...
Understanding the genetics of fur characteristics and skin size is important for developing effective breeding programs in the mink industry. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to estimate the genetic and phenotypic parameters for pelt qual...
Background: to distinguish direct and indirect pathways to frailty phenotype, and quantify associations between two frailty components (i.e., sarcopenia and cachexia) regarding mortality and morbidity in older adults with cancer. Methods: all consecu...
Ensuring salmon health and welfare is crucial to maximize production in recirculation aquaculture systems. Healthy and robust mucosal surfaces of the skin and intestine are essential to achieve this goal because they are the first immunological defen...
Verticillium wilt resulting from infection by Verticillium dahliae is one of the most devastating soilborne fungi of the olive tree (Olea europaea L.) worldwide. The pathogen infects a wide variety of plants and can survive in the soil for many years...
To quickly obtain rice plant phenotypic traits, this study put forward the computational process of six rice phenotype features (e.g., crown diameter, perimeter of stem, plant height, surface area, volume, and projected leaf area) using terrestrial l...
Breeding programs for improvement of sacha-inchi, Plukenetia volubilis L., generally aim to select individuals with greater seed yield since there is a strong correlation between seed yield and oil production. However, the manual removal of seed husk...
Surgical patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) have increased risk of perioperative complications. The primary objective is to determine the characteristics of surgical patients with unrecognized OSA requiring oxygen therapy for postoperative h...
Knowledge about synthetic lethality can be applied to enhance the efficacy of anticancer therapies in individual patients harboring genetic alterations in their cancer that specifically render it vulnerable. We investigated the potential for high-res...
Use of 3D sensors in plant phenotyping has increased in the last few years. Various image acquisition, 3D representations, 3D model processing and analysis techniques exist to help the researchers. However, a review of approaches, algorithms, and tec...
Climate change poses significant challenges to temperate rice production, particularly affecting grain quality and market acceptance. This review synthesizes current knowledge of climate-induced quality changes, with a focus on the Australian rice in...
Accurate estimation of tree structural and morphological parameters is essential in precision fruit farming, supporting optimised irrigation management, biomass estimation and carbon stock assessment. While traditional field-based measurements remain...
The leaf phenotypic traits of plants have a significant impact on the efficiency of canopy photosynthesis. However, traditional methods such as destructive sampling will hinder the continuous monitoring of plant growth, while manual measurements in t...
Industrialized seeding production is one of the most important methods used to raise seedlings in a standardized and efficient manner. However, its consumption of light energy limits its development. In this paper, we studied the effects of LED light...
Asthma exacerbations are acute worsening episodes in individuals with bronchial asthma, frequently necessitating emergency hospital care. Early differentiation between eosinophilic (≥150 eosinophils/mm3) and non-eosinophilic (<150 eosinophils/m...
The objectives of this study were: (1) to identify and rank phenotypically divergent animals for residual feed intake (RFI) regarding their efficiency (high: HE or low: LE); (2) to evaluate their relationships with ingestive behavior, ruminal and blo...
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