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Papers

(The TQCC of Plant Phenomics is 14. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Importance of Using Realistic 3D Canopy Models to Calculate Light Interception in the Field	85
Rice Plant Counting, Locating, and Sizing Method Based on High-Throughput UAV RGB Images	84
MaizeField3D: A curated 3D point cloud and procedural model dataset of field-grown maize from a diversity panel	78
A Mechanistic Model for Estimating Rice Photosynthetic Capacity and Stomatal Conductance from Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence	70
Enhancing Green Fraction Estimation in Rice and Wheat Crops: A Self-Supervised Deep Learning Semantic Segmentation Approach	64
KDOSS-net: Knowledge distillation-based outpainting and semantic segmentation network for crop and weed images	50
Deep Learning Enables Instant and Versatile Estimation of Rice Yield Using Ground-Based RGB Images	50
Phenotyping of Silique Morphology in Oilseed Rape Using Skeletonization with Hierarchical Segmentation	49
Species-specific tree structural parameters extraction via UAV RGB-LiDAR data and multimodal instance segmentation	48
UAV-based spatial sampling bridges ground measurements and satellite data for multi-scale estimation of sugar beet aboveground biomass	48
Noninvasive Abiotic Stress Phenotyping of Vascular Plant in Each Vegetative Organ View	48
Geographic-Scale Coffee Cherry Counting with Smartphones and Deep Learning	47
Identifying Regenerated Saplings by Stratifying Forest Overstory Using Airborne LiDAR Data	47
Dynamic maize true leaf area index retrieval with KGCNN and TL and integrated 3D radiative transfer modeling for crop phenotyping	46
Practical Identifiability of Plant Growth Models: A Unifying Framework and Its Specification for Three Local Indices	45
Location-guided lesions representation learning via image generation for assessing plant leaf diseases severity	45
Detection and Reconstruction of Passion Fruit Branches via CNN and Bidirectional Sector Search	44
Maturity Classification of Rapeseed Using Hyperspectral Image Combined with Machine Learning	44
Drone-Based Digital Phenotyping to Evaluating Relative Maturity, Stand Count, and Plant Height in Dry Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)	43
Visualization and Quantitative Evaluation of Functional Structures of Soybean Root Nodules via Synchrotron X-ray Imaging	42
Rapid acquisition of ionomic and morphological data from plant seeds through fast X-ray fluorescence microscopy and computer vision	42
High-throughput plant phenotyping identifies and discriminates biotic and abiotic stresses in tomato	41
3DPotatoTwin: a paired potato tuber dataset for 3D multi-sensory fusion	41
3D-OGT: 3D organ growth tracking with minimum segmentation	40
The Dissection of Nitrogen Response Traits Using Drone Phenotyping and Dynamic Phenotypic Analysis to Explore N Responsiveness and Associated Genetic Loci in Wheat	38

Rape Yield Estimation Considering Non-Foliar Green Organs Based on the General Crop Growth Model	36
Performance of stacking machine learning and volume model for improving corn above ground biomass prediction	36
Spotibot: Rapid scoring of Botrytis lesions on rose petals using deep learning and mobile computing	33
RGB imaging and computer vision-based approaches for identifying spike number loci for wheat	32
InspectGaussian: Large-scale coarse-to-fine Gaussian reconstruction for orchard inspection robots	32
TrichomeYOLO: A Neural Network for Automatic Maize Trichome Counting	32
Fruit Water Stress Index of Apple Measured by Means of Temperature-Annotated 3D Point Cloud	32
PREPs: An Open-Source Software for High-Throughput Field Plant Phenotyping	32
Instance Segmentation and Berry Counting of Table Grape before Thinning Based on AS-SwinT	31
PDDD-PreTrain: A Series of Commonly Used Pre-Trained Models Support Image-Based Plant Disease Diagnosis	30
Wearable Sensor: An Emerging Data Collection Tool for Plant Phenotyping	29
MLG-YOLO: A Model for Real-Time Accurate Detection and Localization of Winter Jujube in Complex Structured Orchard Environments	27
SMICGS: A novel snapshot multispectral imaging sensor for quantitative monitoring of crop growth	26
Boosting leaf trait estimation from reflectance spectra by elucidating the transferability of PLSR models	26
Leaf bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) prediction with phenotypic traits in four species: Development of a novel measuring and analyzing framework	26
Phenotyping of Panicle Number and Shape in Rice Breeding Materials Based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Imagery	25
Predictions of wheat phenotypic variability by integrating high-throughput phenotyping observations into a crop growth model	25
A Multi-Target Regression Method to Predict Element Concentrations in Tomato Leaves Using Hyperspectral Imaging	24
Time-Series Field Phenotyping of Soybean Growth Analysis by Combining Multimodal Deep Learning and Dynamic Modeling	24
Can Distributed Ledgers Help to Overcome the Need of Labeled Data for Agricultural Machine Learning Tasks?	23
3D U-Net Segmentation Improves Root System Reconstruction from 3D MRI Images in Automated and Manual Virtual Reality Work Flows	23
A Generic Model to Estimate Wheat LAI over Growing Season Regardless of the Soil-Type Background	22
Multi-sensor phenotyping of yield and yield stability for genotype selection in durum wheat	22
Characterization and Identification of NPK Stress in Rice Using Terrestrial Hyperspectral Images	22
CLIP-TLNet: Canopy light interception prediction with Transformer-LSTM network through 3D complexity-temporal dynamics modeling	21
Quantifying Contributions of Different Factors to Canopy Photosynthesis in 2 Maize Varieties: Development of a Novel 3D Canopy Modeling Pipeline	21
Multi-granularity alignment for crop diseases detection	21
High-Throughput Field Plant Phenotyping: A Self-Supervised Sequential CNN Method to Segment Overlapping Plants	21
GSP-AI: An AI-Powered Platform for Identifying Key Growth Stages and the Vegetative-to-Reproductive Transition in Wheat Using Trilateral Drone Imagery and Meteorological Data	20
Functional–Structural Plant Model “GreenLab”: A State-of-the-Art Review	20
PhenoGazer: A high-throughput phenotyping system to track plant stress responses using hyperspectral reflectance, nighttime chlorophyll fluorescence and RGB imaging in controlled environments	20
High-throughput estimation of sugarcane phenotypic traits using UAV multispectral data under high-density planting conditions	20
Pre-symptomatic diagnosis of rice blast and brown spot diseases using chlorophyll fluorescence imaging	19
Segmenting vegetation from UAV images via spectral reconstruction in complex field environments	19
UAV-Assisted Dynamic Monitoring of Wheat Uniformity toward Yield and Biomass Estimation	19
Application of Visible/Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Hyperspectral Imaging with Machine Learning for High-Throughput Plant Heavy Metal Stress Phenotyping: A Review	19
Fitting maximum crown width height of Chinese fir through ensemble learning combined with fine spatial competition	18
Noninvasive Detection of Salt Stress in Cotton Seedlings by Combining Multicolor Fluorescence–Multispectral Reflectance Imaging with EfficientNet-OB2	18
TM-WSNet: A precise segmentation method for individual rubber trees based on UAV LiDAR point cloud	18
A keypoint-based method for detecting weed growth points in corn field environments	18
A parallel resnet-transformer and cross-modal attention network for identification of rice blast resistance using UAV-based visible-infrared imagery	17
From Neglecting to Including Cultivar-Specific Per Se Temperature Responses: Extending the Concept of Thermal Time in Field Crops	17
Unraveling plant phenotype to genotype associations with daily hyperspectral traits in Populus trichocarpa	17
PlantSpecLab: A comprehensive open-source platform for high-throughput plant spectral data processing and phenotypic modeling	17
CVRP: A rice image dataset with high-quality annotations for image segmentation and plant phenomics research	17
Plant3R: Fusing 3D feature learning with Gaussian splatting to enhance wheat plant 3D reconstruction precision	17
Informed-Learning-Guided Visual Question Answering Model of Crop Disease	16
Integrating 3D Canopy Reconstruction to Assess Photosynthetic and Carbon Sequestration Responses of Larch Plantations to Drought Stress	16
Automatic 3D Plant Organ Instance Segmentation Method Based on PointNeXt and Quickshift++	16
Conditional reliability of chlorophyll fluorescence for inferring photosynthesis in Ginkgo biloba: evidence from fluctuating light and drought conditions	16

Benchmarking Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning Methods for Image-Based Plant Phenotyping	16
The blessing of Depth Anything: An almost unsupervised approach to crop segmentation with depth-informed pseudo labeling	16
Integrating UAV remote sensing and semi-supervised learning for early-stage maize seedling monitoring and geolocation	16
AFM-YOLOv8s: An Accurate, Fast, and Highly Robust Model for Detection of Sporangia of Plasmopara viticola with Various Morphological Variants	16
Quantification of the Cumulative Shading Capacity in a Maize–Soybean Intercropping System Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle	16
High-throughput phenotyping of wheat ear surface area and ear density in the field	15
Volumetric Deep Learning-Based Precision Phenotyping of Gene-Edited Tomato for Vertical Farming	15
A Precise Image-Based Tomato Leaf Disease Detection Approach Using PLPNet	15
Three-Dimensional Leaf Edge Reconstruction Combining Two- and Three-Dimensional Approaches	15
Panoptic segmentation for complete labeling of fruit microstructure in 3D micro-CT images with deep learning	15
panomiX: Investigating mechanisms of trait emergence through multi-omics data integration	15
Semi-supervised Counting of Grape Berries in the Field Based on Density Mutual Exclusion	15
Efficient Noninvasive FHB Estimation using RGB Images from a Novel Multiyear, Multirater Dataset	15
CSNet: A Count-Supervised Network via Multiscale MLP-Mixer for Wheat Ear Counting	15
Near-infrared spectroscopy as a high-throughput phenotyping method for fusiform rust resistance in loblolly pine	15
Point Cloud Completion of Plant Leaves under Occlusion Conditions Based on Deep Learning	15
Atlas-based spatiotemporal MRI phenotyping of 3D fungal spread in grapevine wood	15
Combinatorial Maps, a New Framework to Model Agroforestry Systems	14
DomAda-FruitDet: Domain-Adaptive Anchor-Free Fruit Detection Model for Auto Labeling	14
Potential of Establishing the Universal Critical Nitrogen Dilution Curve for Japonica Rice	14
Bridging Time-series Image Phenotyping and Functional–Structural Plant Modeling to Predict Adventitious Root System Architecture	14
Counting Canola: Toward Generalizable Aerial Plant Detection Models	14
WITHDRAWN: Targeted integrating hyperspectral and metabolomic data with spectral indices and metabolite content models for efficient salt-tolerant phenotype discrimination in Medicago truncatula	14
Practical Considerations and Limitations of Using Leaf and Canopy Temperature Measurements as a Stomatal Conductance Proxy: Sensitivity across Environmental Conditions, Scale, and Sample Size	14
The Global Wheat Full Semantic Organ Segmentation (GWFSS) dataset	14