TY  - JOUR
AU  - Fanourakis, Dimitrios
AU  - Briese, Christoph
AU  - Max, F. J.
AU  - Kleinen, Silke
AU  - Putz, Alexander
AU  - Fiorani, Fabio
AU  - Ulbrich, Andreas
AU  - Schurr, Ulrich
TI  - Rapid determination of leaf area and plant height by using light curtain arrays in four species with contrasting shoot architecture
JO  - Plant methods
VL  - 10
IS  - 1
SN  - 1746-4811
CY  - London
PB  - BioMed Central
M1  - FZJ-2014-01526
SP  - 9
PY  - 2014
AB  - Light curtain arrays (LC), a recently introduced phenotyping method, yield a binary data matrix from which a shoot silhouette is reconstructed. We addressed the accuracy and applicability of LC in assessing leaf area and maximum height (base to the highest leaf tip) in a phenotyping platform. LC were integrated to an automated routine for positioning, allowing in situ measurements. Two dicotyledonous (rapeseed, tomato) and two monocotyledonous (maize, barley) species with contrasting shoot architecture were investigated. To evaluate if averaging multiple view angles helps in resolving self-overlaps, we acquired a data set by rotating plants every 10° for 170°. To test how rapid these measurements can be without loss of information, we evaluated nine scanning speeds. Leaf area of overlapping plants was also estimated to assess the possibility to scale this method for plant stands. 
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000334451100001
C6  - pmid:24721154
DO  - DOI:10.1186/1746-4811-10-9
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/151635
ER  -