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A Telemetric, Gravimetric Platform for Real-Time Physiological Phenotyping of Plant–Environment Interactions

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Developmental normalization of phenomics data generated by high throughput plant phenotyping systems.

Diego Lozano-Claros^1,2, Xiangxiang Meng^1,3,4, Eddie Custovic²

¹Department of Animal, Plant and Soil Science, AgriBio Building, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC 3086 Australia.

|August 21, 2020

Summary

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The Digital Adjustment of Plant Development (DAPD) method normalizes plant phenotyping data by aligning developmental stages, reducing variance and improving accuracy. This approach enhances comparisons between individual plants in high throughput plant phenotyping systems.

Keywords:

Computer vision Development Growth High-throughput plant phenotyping Machine learning Phenomics

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Area of Science:

Plant Science
Computational Biology
Genetics

Background:

High throughput plant phenotyping (HTPP) systems commonly use sowing time as a reference for Arabidopsis experiments.
Individual seed development varies, leading to increased variance in quantitative phenotyping.
Existing methods assume uniform germination and seedling establishment, which is often not the case.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and validate a novel method for normalizing time-series HTPP measurements.
To improve the accuracy and reduce variance in quantitative phenotyping data.
To establish a more informative comparison between individual plants.

Main Methods:

Developed the Digital Adjustment of Plant Development (DAPD) normalization method.
Normalized time-series HTPP measurements by referencing an early developmental stage.
Used cross-correlation of multiple time-series measurements (e.g., rosette area, leaf number) to shift timelines.

Main Results:

DAPD improved phenotyping accuracy by decreasing statistical dispersion in quantitative traits.
Reduced variance in Arabidopsis plant measurements by up to 2.5 times compared to sowing-time normalization.
Identified more outliers than other central tendency techniques on non-normalized data.

Conclusions:

DAPD is an effective method for controlling temporal developmental differences in plant phenotyping datasets.
The method can be applied to HTPP data across various species and traits.
Enhances the reliability and interpretability of HTPP data.