Fruit Volume and Leaf-Area Determination of Cabbage by a Neural-Network-Based Instance Segmentation for Different Growth Stages.

Fruit volume and leaf area are important indicators to draw conclusions about the growth condition of the plant. However, the current methods of manual measuring morphological plant properties, such as fruit volume and leaf area, are time consuming and mainly destructive. In this research, an image-based approach for the non-destructive determination of fruit volume and for the total leaf area over three growth stages for cabbage () is presented.

Correction: Vázquez-Arellano, M., et al. 3-D Imaging Systems for Agricultural Applications-A Review. Sensors 2016, 16, 618.

The authors wish to make the following corrections to Table 1 of the title paper [1]: the working environment of the PlantEye platform should be changed from "Greenhouse" to "Open field, Greenhouse" and the shadowing device of the Scanalyzer platform should be changed from "'√" to "x". [..

3-D Imaging Systems for Agricultural Applications-A Review.

Efficiency increase of resources through automation of agriculture requires more information about the production process, as well as process and machinery status. Sensors are necessary for monitoring the status and condition of production by recognizing the surrounding structures such as objects, field structures, natural or artificial markers, and obstacles. Currently, three dimensional (3-D) sensors are economically affordable and technologically advanced to a great extent, so a breakthrough is already possible if enough research projects are commercialized.

Evolutionary Agroecology: the potential for cooperative, high density, weed-suppressing cereals.

Evolutionary theory can be applied to improve agricultural yields and/or sustainability, an approach we call Evolutionary Agroecology. The basic idea is that plant breeding is unlikely to improve attributes already favored by millions of years of natural selection, whereas there may be unutilized potential in selecting for attributes that increase total crop yield but reduce plants' individual fitness. In other words, plant breeding should be based on group selection.