Branching and Rooting Out with a CT Scanner: The Why, the How, and the Outcomes, Present and Possibly Future

• Main Author: Pierre Dutilleul (auth)
• Other Authors: Jonathan A. Lafond (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Botany & plant sciences; plant CT scanning data collection and analysis; phytopathological and environmental stress applications; plant imaging and phenotyping; plant structural complexity and fractal geometry; appropriate statistical methods for plant data; Computed tomography (CT)
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Until recently, a majority of the applications of X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanning in plant sciences remained descriptive; some included a quantification of the plant materials when the root-soil isolation or branch-leaf separation was satisfactory; and a few involved the modeling of plant bi...