PlantCV v4: Image analysis software for high‐throughput plant phenotyping

Abstract

Abstract PlantCV is an open‐source Python project aimed at developing tools to address a range of image‐based, plant phenotyping questions. PlantCV has been used for more than 10 years to automate trait collection from image data, and the newest release, PlantCV version 4, continues to lower the barrier to entry for users without substantial coding experience through extensive example use‐case tutorials and simplified installation. In addition to usability, we document added functionality since the release of PlantCV v2, including support for more image types such as fluorescence, thermal, and hyperspectral data. Finally, we describe the development of a new subpackage focused on morphological trait measurements like leaf angle, and demonstrate its utility as compared to more manual methods of data collection.

Plant phenotyping relevance

PlantCV v4は、画像から植物形質を自動抽出するオープンソースソフトウェアの開発・機能拡張・比較評価を主題としており、植物フェノタイピング手法が中心である。

Code and data availability

The paper's Data Availability Statement explicitly deposits the authors' analysis scripts on GitHub (danforthcenter/plantcv-4-paper), which directly reproduces this paper's phenotyping analyses.