2021 journal article
Images carried before the fire: The power, promise, and responsibility of latent phenotyping in plants
The Plant Phenome Journal, 4(1).
Contributors: J. Gage*
TL;DR:
The differences between, and challenges of, both traditional and latent phenotyping are discussed.
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Added: April 18, 2023
AbstractUnderstanding the genetic basis of plant traits requires comprehensive and quantitative descriptions of the phenotypic variation that exists within populations. Cameras and other sensors have made high‐throughput phenotyping possible, but image‐based phenotyping procedures involve a step where a researcher selects the traits to be measured. This feature selection step is inherently prone to human biases. Recently, a set of phenotyping approaches, which are referred to collectively as latent phenotyping techniques, have arisen in the literature. Latent phenotyping techniques isolate a latent source of variance in the data, such as stress or genotype, and then quantify the effect of this latent source of variance using latent variables without defining any conventional traits. In this review, we discuss the differences between, and challenges of, both traditional and latent phenotyping.