Home/About
Glossary
Sections:
Introduction
Principles of inheritance
Genotypic variation
Other forms of heritable variation
Quantitative variation and heritability
Novel sources of genetic variation
The practice of plant breeding
Breeding methods
Plant Breeders' rights
New technologies for plant breeding
Phenotyping technologies
Phenotyping technologies: aerial photography
Aerial photography: example
Transgenics
Marker-Assisted Breeding (MAB)
DNA sequencing
Next generation sequencing
Genotyping by reduced representation
Genomic selection
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS)
Untitled Document

Phenotyping technologies: aerial photography

Aerial photography

Some traits that can be measured from aerial photographs include: Height, width, area, perimeter, mean grayness (colour density), mode grayness, and four measures of shape descriptions. (example next page)