Flatbed scanning is one of the most common and useful methods for measuring root traits like length and diameter. Use of graphical scanners with transparency units (or top lights) allows acquiring images of root silhouettes that are easily analyzed using RhizoVision Explorer.  Read more...

We developed the RhizoVision Crown hardware and software platform for root crown phenotyping, or shovelomics. Using a greyscale camera and a backlight allows capturing a root silhouette for reproducible analysis in RhizoVision Explorer without failures. RhizoVision Imager facilitates quick imaging including use of a barcode scanner to trigger image acquisition and save the image with the barcode ID.  Read more...