Biological tissues are complex and require advanced techniques to obtain information about their composition, structure, physiology, and many other features, all while avoiding sample contact, destruction, human subjectivity, and long analysis times. Plant science is a broad area of research, involving disciplines from seed viability and vigor, root growth, fruit production, and the environment and pathogen interactions.
Cutting-edge technologies have been developed to accelerate plant science, including “optics”. Optical technology and metrology have emerged within the surge of digital electronics innovations, and are associated with the use of lasers, computer science, and the advanced mathematical modeling of images. Optical metrology has, in particular, opened up new opportunities for work within plant science.
This Research Topic aims to bridge biology and the physical/engineering sciences and welcomes contributions of cutting-edge optical metrological techniques to ultimately help devise solutions to problems encountered when dealing with plants in the field and laboratory.
We anticipate submissions employing known optical technologies with novel measurement applications in plants, or new techniques or protocols to help to further plant science.
We will consider all studies using optical metrology to study the whole plant, or its unit elements such as the seeds, roots, leaves, or physiology and interactions with the environment. The works can be based on novel techniques/protocols or known techniques/protocols with novel applications such as:
• Interferometry and dynamic laser speckle;
• Digital filtering and processing of images;
• Modeling and image analysis;
• Digitization of elements of plants;
• Optical sensors;
• Novel approaches using Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and X-Ray.
Biological tissues are complex and require advanced techniques to obtain information about their composition, structure, physiology, and many other features, all while avoiding sample contact, destruction, human subjectivity, and long analysis times. Plant science is a broad area of research, involving disciplines from seed viability and vigor, root growth, fruit production, and the environment and pathogen interactions.
Cutting-edge technologies have been developed to accelerate plant science, including “optics”. Optical technology and metrology have emerged within the surge of digital electronics innovations, and are associated with the use of lasers, computer science, and the advanced mathematical modeling of images. Optical metrology has, in particular, opened up new opportunities for work within plant science.
This Research Topic aims to bridge biology and the physical/engineering sciences and welcomes contributions of cutting-edge optical metrological techniques to ultimately help devise solutions to problems encountered when dealing with plants in the field and laboratory.
We anticipate submissions employing known optical technologies with novel measurement applications in plants, or new techniques or protocols to help to further plant science.
We will consider all studies using optical metrology to study the whole plant, or its unit elements such as the seeds, roots, leaves, or physiology and interactions with the environment. The works can be based on novel techniques/protocols or known techniques/protocols with novel applications such as:
• Interferometry and dynamic laser speckle;
• Digital filtering and processing of images;
• Modeling and image analysis;
• Digitization of elements of plants;
• Optical sensors;
• Novel approaches using Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and X-Ray.
