Spatial and Texture Analysis of Root System Architecture with Earth Mover's Distance (STARSEED)

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We propose a new method, Spatial and Texture Analysis of Root System architEcture with Earth mover's Distance (STARSEED), for comparing root architectures that incorporate spatial information through a novel application of the Earth Mover's Distance (EMD).We illustrate that the approach captures the response of sesame root systems for different genotypes and soil moisture levels. STARSEED provides quantitative and visual insights into changes that occur in root architectures across experimental treatments.STARSEED can be easily generalized to other plants and provides insight into root system architecture development and response to varying growth conditions not captured by existing root architecture metrics and models. The code and data for our experiments are publicly available: https://github.com/GatorSense/STARSEED. Plant Physiology and Morphology Plant Molecular Biology and Genetics Root architecture Earth Mover’s Distance Image Analysis Sesamum indicum Artificial Intelligence Full Text Cite Share Download PDF Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. We do this by developing innovative software and high quality services for the global research community. Our growing team is made up of researchers and industry professionals working together to solve the most critical problems facing scientific publishing. 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