Journal of experimental botany
May 26, 2015
Roots play an immediate role as the interface for water acquisition. To improve sustainability in low-water environments, breeders of major crops must therefore pay closer attention to advantageous root phenotypes; however, the complexity of root arc...
Journal of experimental botany
Jan 10, 2025
Evaluation of relevant seed traits is an essential part of most plant breeding and biotechnology programmes. There is a need for non-destructive, three-dimensional assessment of the morphometry, composition, and internal features of seeds. Here, we i...
Journal of experimental botany
Nov 15, 2024
Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) can be used to automatically analyze large image datasets. One valuable application of this approach is estimation of plant trait data contained within images. Here we review 39 papers that describ...
Journal of experimental botany
Nov 15, 2024
Plant physiology and metabolism rely on the function of stomata, structures on the surface of above-ground organs that facilitate the exchange of gases with the atmosphere. The morphology of the guard cells and corresponding pore that make up the sto...
Journal of experimental botany
Apr 15, 2024
In plants, C-to-U RNA editing mainly occurs in plastid and mitochondrial transcripts, which contributes to a complex transcriptional regulatory network. More evidence reveals that RNA editing plays critical roles in plant growth and development. Howe...
Journal of experimental botany
Nov 21, 2023
In vitro pollen germination is considered the most efficient method to assess pollen viability. The pollen germination frequency and pollen tube length, which are key indicators of pollen viability, should be accurately measured during in vitro cultu...
Journal of experimental botany
Sep 13, 2023
Veins are a critical component of the plant growth and development system, playing an integral role in supporting and protecting leaves, as well as transporting water, nutrients, and photosynthetic products. A comprehensive understanding of the form ...
Journal of experimental botany
Nov 2, 2022
The heading date and effective tiller percentage are important traits in rice, and they directly affect plant architecture and yield. Both traits are related to the ratio of the panicle number to the maximum tiller number, referred to as the panicle ...
Journal of experimental botany
Nov 2, 2022
A major challenge for the estimation of crop traits (biophysical variables) from canopy reflectance is the creation of a high-quality training dataset. To address this problem, this research investigated a conceptual framework by integrating a crop g...
Journal of experimental botany
Sep 3, 2022
Despite efforts to collect genomics and phenomics ('omics') and environmental data, spatiotemporal availability and access to digital resources still limit our ability to predict plants' response to changes in climate. Our goal is to quantify the imp...