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Combining self-organizing maps and biplot analysis to preselect maize phenotypic components based on UAV high-throughput phenotyping platform

Plant Methods, ISSN: 1746-4811, Vol: 15, Issue: 1, Page: 57
2019
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  • Citations
    14
  • Captures
    53
  • Social Media
    24
    • Shares, Likes & Comments
      24
      • Facebook
        24

Article Description

Background: With environmental deterioration, natural resource scarcity, and rapid population growth, mankind is facing severe global food security problems. To meet future needs, it is necessary to accelerate progress in breeding for new varieties with high yield and strong resistance. However, the traditional phenotypic screening methods have some disadvantages, such as destructive, inefficient, low-dimensional, labor-intensive and cumbersome, which seriously hinder the development of field breeding. Breeders urgently need a high-throughput technique for acquiring and evaluating phenotypic data that can efficiently screen out excellent phenotypic traits from large-scale genotype populations. Results: In the present study, we used an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) high-throughput phenotyping (HTP) platform to collect RGB and multispectral images for a breeding program and acquired multiple phenotypic components (or traits), such as plant height, normalized difference vegetation index, biomass accumulation, plant-height growth rate, lodging, and leaf color. By implementing self-organizing maps and principal components analysis biplots to establish phenotypic map and similarity, we proposed an UAV-assisted HTP framework for preselecting maize (Zee mays L.) phenotypic components (or traits). Conclusions: This framework gives breeders additional information to allow them to quickly identify and preselect plants that have genotypes conferring desirable phenotypic components out of thousands of field plots. The present study also demonstrates that remote sensing is a powerful tool with which to acquire abundant phenotypic components. By using these rich phenotypic components, breeders should be able to more effectively identify and select superior genotypes.

Bibliographic Details

Han, Liang; Yang, Guijun; Dai, Huayang; Yang, Hao; Xu, Bo; Li, Heli; Long, Huiling; Li, Zhenhai; Yang, Xiaodong; Zhao, Chunjiang

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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