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Papers

(The TQCC of Plant Phenomics is 12. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Robust High-Throughput Phenotyping with Deep Segmentation Enabled by a Web-Based Annotator	82
KDOSS-net: Knowledge distillation-based outpainting and semantic segmentation network for crop and weed images	69
A Mechanistic Model for Estimating Rice Photosynthetic Capacity and Stomatal Conductance from Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence	62
Enhancing Green Fraction Estimation in Rice and Wheat Crops: A Self-Supervised Deep Learning Semantic Segmentation Approach	60
Deep Learning Enables Instant and Versatile Estimation of Rice Yield Using Ground-Based RGB Images	58
Phenotyping of Silique Morphology in Oilseed Rape Using Skeletonization with Hierarchical Segmentation	58
The Importance of Using Realistic 3D Canopy Models to Calculate Light Interception in the Field	54
Rice Plant Counting, Locating, and Sizing Method Based on High-Throughput UAV RGB Images	52
Geographic-Scale Coffee Cherry Counting with Smartphones and Deep Learning	50
Dynamic maize true leaf area index retrieval with KGCNN and TL and integrated 3D radiative transfer modeling for crop phenotyping	41
Identifying Regenerated Saplings by Stratifying Forest Overstory Using Airborne LiDAR Data	40
Location-guided lesions representation learning via image generation for assessing plant leaf diseases severity	39
Noninvasive Abiotic Stress Phenotyping of Vascular Plant in Each Vegetative Organ View	39
Practical Identifiability of Plant Growth Models: A Unifying Framework and Its Specification for Three Local Indices	38
Enabling Breeding Selection for Biomass in Slash Pine Using UAV-Based Imaging	38
Performance of stacking machine learning and volume model for improving corn above ground biomass prediction	37
Detection and Reconstruction of Passion Fruit Branches via CNN and Bidirectional Sector Search	37
Visualization and Quantitative Evaluation of Functional Structures of Soybean Root Nodules via Synchrotron X-ray Imaging	37
Rape Yield Estimation Considering Non-Foliar Green Organs Based on the General Crop Growth Model	34
Drone-Based Digital Phenotyping to Evaluating Relative Maturity, Stand Count, and Plant Height in Dry Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)	34
The Dissection of Nitrogen Response Traits Using Drone Phenotyping and Dynamic Phenotypic Analysis to Explore N Responsiveness and Associated Genetic Loci in Wheat	34
How Useful Is Image-Based Active Learning for Plant Organ Segmentation?	33
EasyDAM_V2: Efficient Data Labeling Method for Multishape, Cross-Species Fruit Detection	33
Maturity Classification of Rapeseed Using Hyperspectral Image Combined with Machine Learning	33
3dCAP-Wheat: An Open-Source Comprehensive Computational Framework Precisely Quantifies Wheat Foliar, Nonfoliar, and Canopy Photosynthesis	32

Assessing the Storage Root Development of Cassava with a New Analysis Tool	31
Spotibot: Rapid scoring of Botrytis lesions on rose petals using deep learning and mobile computing	31
Fruit Water Stress Index of Apple Measured by Means of Temperature-Annotated 3D Point Cloud	31
RGB imaging and computer vision-based approaches for identifying spike number loci for wheat	29
PDDD-PreTrain: A Series of Commonly Used Pre-Trained Models Support Image-Based Plant Disease Diagnosis	29
TrichomeYOLO: A Neural Network for Automatic Maize Trichome Counting	29
Instance Segmentation and Berry Counting of Table Grape before Thinning Based on AS-SwinT	29
PREPs: An Open-Source Software for High-Throughput Field Plant Phenotyping	28
MLG-YOLO: A Model for Real-Time Accurate Detection and Localization of Winter Jujube in Complex Structured Orchard Environments	27
Wearable Sensor: An Emerging Data Collection Tool for Plant Phenotyping	27
Boosting leaf trait estimation from reflectance spectra by elucidating the transferability of PLSR models	26
SMICGS: A novel snapshot multispectral imaging sensor for quantitative monitoring of crop growth	26
Leaf Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) Prediction with Phenotypic Traits in Four Species: Development of a Novel Measuring and Analyzing Framework	25
Phenotyping of Panicle Number and Shape in Rice Breeding Materials Based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Imagery	24
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?	24
Characterization and Identification of NPK Stress in Rice Using Terrestrial Hyperspectral Images	23
3D U-Net Segmentation Improves Root System Reconstruction from 3D MRI Images in Automated and Manual Virtual Reality Work Flows	23
Functional–Structural Plant Model “GreenLab”: A State-of-the-Art Review	23
High-Throughput Field Plant Phenotyping: A Self-Supervised Sequential CNN Method to Segment Overlapping Plants	22
PhenoGazer: A high-throughput phenotyping system to track plant stress responses using hyperspectral reflectance, nighttime chlorophyll fluorescence and RGB imaging in controlled environments	22
A Generic Model to Estimate Wheat LAI over Growing Season Regardless of the Soil-Type Background	22
Segmenting vegetation from UAV images via spectral reconstruction in complex field environments	21
Application of Visible/Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Hyperspectral Imaging with Machine Learning for High-Throughput Plant Heavy Metal Stress Phenotyping: A Review	21
Quantifying Contributions of Different Factors to Canopy Photosynthesis in 2 Maize Varieties: Development of a Novel 3D Canopy Modeling Pipeline	20
Multi-granularity alignment for crop diseases detection	20
Fitting maximum crown width height of Chinese fir through ensemble learning combined with fine spatial competition	20
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
Pre-symptomatic diagnosis of rice blast and brown spot diseases using chlorophyll fluorescence imaging	19
CVRP: A rice image dataset with high-quality annotations for image segmentation and plant phenomics research	19
A keypoint-based method for detecting weed growth points in corn field environments	17
TM-WSNet: A precise segmentation method for individual rubber trees based on UAV LiDAR point cloud	17
From Neglecting to Including Cultivar-Specific Per Se Temperature Responses: Extending the Concept of Thermal Time in Field Crops	17
Noninvasive Detection of Salt Stress in Cotton Seedlings by Combining Multicolor Fluorescence–Multispectral Reflectance Imaging with EfficientNet-OB2	17
Integrating UAV remote sensing and semi-supervised learning for early-stage maize seedling monitoring and geolocation	17
UAV-Assisted Dynamic Monitoring of Wheat Uniformity toward Yield and Biomass Estimation	17
AFM-YOLOv8s: An Accurate, Fast, and Highly Robust Model for Detection of Sporangia of Plasmopara viticola with Various Morphological Variants	16
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	15
Automatic 3D Plant Organ Instance Segmentation Method Based on PointNeXt and Quickshift++	15
Quantification of the Cumulative Shading Capacity in a Maize–Soybean Intercropping System Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle	15
Volumetric Deep Learning-Based Precision Phenotyping of Gene-Edited Tomato for Vertical Farming	14
panomiX: Investigating Mechanisms Of Trait Emergence Through Multi-Omics Data Integration	14
CSNet: A Count-Supervised Network via Multiscale MLP-Mixer for Wheat Ear Counting	13
Semi-supervised Counting of Grape Berries in the Field Based on Density Mutual Exclusion	13
The blessing of Depth Anything: An almost unsupervised approach to crop segmentation with depth-informed pseudo labeling	13
Efficient Noninvasive FHB Estimation using RGB Images from a Novel Multiyear, Multirater Dataset	13
Root System Traits Contribute to Variability and Plasticity in Response to Phosphorus Fertilization in 2 Field-Grown Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] Cultivars	13
Benchmarking Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning Methods for Image-Based Plant Phenotyping	13

Combinatorial Maps, a New Framework to Model Agroforestry Systems	13
Point Cloud Completion of Plant Leaves under Occlusion Conditions Based on Deep Learning	13
Corrigendum to “Automatic Fruit Morphology Phenome and Genetic Analysis: An Application in the Octoploid Strawberry”	12
Near-infrared spectroscopy as a high-throughput phenotyping method for fusiform rust resistance in loblolly pine	12
DomAda-FruitDet: Domain-Adaptive Anchor-Free Fruit Detection Model for Auto Labeling	12
Three-Dimensional Leaf Edge Reconstruction Combining Two- and Three-Dimensional Approaches	12
Panoptic segmentation for complete labeling of fruit microstructure in 3D micro-CT images with deep learning	12
WITHDRAWN: Targeted integrating hyperspectral and metabolomic data with spectral indices and metabolite content models for efficient salt-tolerant phenotype discrimination in Medicago truncatula	12
The Global Wheat Full Semantic Organ Segmentation (GWFSS) dataset	12
A Precise Image-Based Tomato Leaf Disease Detection Approach Using PLPNet	12
Bridging Time-series Image Phenotyping and Functional–Structural Plant Modeling to Predict Adventitious Root System Architecture	12
Practical Considerations and Limitations of Using Leaf and Canopy Temperature Measurements as a Stomatal Conductance Proxy: Sensitivity across Environmental Conditions, Scale, and Sample Size	12