Plant image science as a new multidisciplinary scientific domain

Abstract

Plant image science is a new multidisciplinary science that involves imaging techniques and image analysis methods to capture, process, and analyze plant images for understanding plant status and responses to environmental perturbations across various plant types and ecosystems. Plant image science encompasses a broader range of concept and scope than plant phenomics making it differentiable and widely appreciable. It covers plant phenotyping and the diagnosis and remote sensing of individual plants, plant communities, vegetation, and living organisms (for example, microorganisms and insects). Relevant applications include but not limited to plant phenomics, plant breeding and genomic research, crop management, crop protection, agricultural machinery, and postharvest processes. Its conceptual flexibility and multidisciplinary nature suggest that it has virtually no limitations in its applications, making it an essential domain and tool for the future of plant-based sciences and industries including agriculture, forestry and environment.

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This is a conceptual review article with no plant-phenotyping measurements, datasets, images, code, or models. The data availability statement explicitly says 'No data available.'

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