Key Point
・Technology to extract information from photographs and convert it into 3D information.
・This technology can be used to obtain information on the three-dimensional shape of plants, such as branch direction and degree of curvature, inexpensively and with high accuracy.
Benefit
For the stable harvesting of agricultural crops and the improvement of cultivation techniques, it is necessary to quantitatively evaluate how genetic information, and the growth environment influence the morphological state of plants.
The physical and physiological morphology of a plant, such as the size of fruits and leaves, the thickness and length of branches, etc., is called a “phenotype”. Even if they have the same genetic information, their phenotypes change under the influence of various environmental considerations such as sunshine hours, temperature, and soil moisture content. Therefore, in recent years, research on plant phenotyping, which analyzes the relationship between plant growth environment and phenotype, has been actively conducted, targeting the breeding and development of agricultural crops and the improvement of cultivation techniques. Since analysis of the external morphological information of plants is essential, and environmental parameters and plant morphological parameters that affect plant growth are diverse, now research topic is how to quantify morphology in a highly accurate and time-saving way.
The physical and physiological morphology of a plant, such as the size of fruits and leaves, the thickness and length of branches, etc., is called a “phenotype”. Even if they have the same genetic information, their phenotypes change under the influence of various environmental considerations such as sunshine hours, temperature, and soil moisture content. Therefore, in recent years, research on plant phenotyping, which analyzes the relationship between plant growth environment and phenotype, has been actively conducted, targeting the breeding and development of agricultural crops and the improvement of cultivation techniques. Since analysis of the external morphological information of plants is essential, and environmental parameters and plant morphological parameters that affect plant growth are diverse, now research topic is how to quantify morphology in a highly accurate and time-saving way.
Market Application
By analyzing the three-dimensional characteristics of the plant growth, it is possible to know how to grow plants more efficiently, so it can be used in fields such as agriculture.