OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Plant Phenomics is 16. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A Mechanistic Model for Estimating Rice Photosynthetic Capacity and Stomatal Conductance from Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence	94
Deep Learning Enables Instant and Versatile Estimation of Rice Yield Using Ground-Based RGB Images	93
The Importance of Using Realistic 3D Canopy Models to Calculate Light Interception in the Field	85
MaizeField3D: A curated 3D point cloud and procedural model dataset of field-grown maize from a diversity panel	75
Phenotyping of Silique Morphology in Oilseed Rape Using Skeletonization with Hierarchical Segmentation	68
Enhancing Green Fraction Estimation in Rice and Wheat Crops: A Self-Supervised Deep Learning Semantic Segmentation Approach	59
Rice Plant Counting, Locating, and Sizing Method Based on High-Throughput UAV RGB Images	57
KDOSS-net: Knowledge distillation-based outpainting and semantic segmentation network for crop and weed images	55
UAV-based spatial sampling bridges ground measurements and satellite data for multi-scale estimation of sugar beet aboveground biomass	53
Geographic-Scale Coffee Cherry Counting with Smartphones and Deep Learning	53
Practical Identifiability of Plant Growth Models: A Unifying Framework and Its Specification for Three Local Indices	52
Noninvasive Abiotic Stress Phenotyping of Vascular Plant in Each Vegetative Organ View	51
Location-guided lesions representation learning via image generation for assessing plant leaf diseases severity	51
Identifying Regenerated Saplings by Stratifying Forest Overstory Using Airborne LiDAR Data	51
Dynamic maize true leaf area index retrieval with KGCNN and TL and integrated 3D radiative transfer modeling for crop phenotyping	50
Species-specific tree structural parameters extraction via UAV RGB-LiDAR data and multimodal instance segmentation	50
The Dissection of Nitrogen Response Traits Using Drone Phenotyping and Dynamic Phenotypic Analysis to Explore N Responsiveness and Associated Genetic Loci in Wheat	49
Drone-Based Digital Phenotyping to Evaluating Relative Maturity, Stand Count, and Plant Height in Dry Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)	47
High-throughput plant phenotyping identifies and discriminates biotic and abiotic stresses in tomato	47
Maturity Classification of Rapeseed Using Hyperspectral Image Combined with Machine Learning	47
Detection and Reconstruction of Passion Fruit Branches via CNN and Bidirectional Sector Search	46
Rapid acquisition of ionomic and morphological data from plant seeds through fast X-ray fluorescence microscopy and computer vision	46
3D-OGT: 3D organ growth tracking with minimum segmentation	45
Rape Yield Estimation Considering Non-Foliar Green Organs Based on the General Crop Growth Model	44
Visualization and Quantitative Evaluation of Functional Structures of Soybean Root Nodules via Synchrotron X-ray Imaging	42

Performance of stacking machine learning and volume model for improving corn above ground biomass prediction	40
3DPotatoTwin: a paired potato tuber dataset for 3D multi-sensory fusion	40
Fruit Water Stress Index of Apple Measured by Means of Temperature-Annotated 3D Point Cloud	37
TrichomeYOLO: A Neural Network for Automatic Maize Trichome Counting	37
PDDD-PreTrain: A Series of Commonly Used Pre-Trained Models Support Image-Based Plant Disease Diagnosis	36
PREPs: An Open-Source Software for High-Throughput Field Plant Phenotyping	36
InspectGaussian: Large-scale coarse-to-fine Gaussian reconstruction for orchard inspection robots	35
Spotibot: Rapid scoring of Botrytis lesions on rose petals using deep learning and mobile computing	35
Wearable Sensor: An Emerging Data Collection Tool for Plant Phenotyping	34
MLG-YOLO: A Model for Real-Time Accurate Detection and Localization of Winter Jujube in Complex Structured Orchard Environments	34
RGB imaging and computer vision-based approaches for identifying spike number loci for wheat	34
Instance Segmentation and Berry Counting of Table Grape before Thinning Based on AS-SwinT	31
Leaf bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) prediction with phenotypic traits in four species: Development of a novel measuring and analyzing framework	30
Predictions of wheat phenotypic variability by integrating high-throughput phenotyping observations into a crop growth model	29
Transpiration responds linearly to Penman-Monteith reference evapotranspiration and varies genetically, both in individual plants and canopies, in large sorghum and pearl millet panels	29
A Multi-Target Regression Method to Predict Element Concentrations in Tomato Leaves Using Hyperspectral Imaging	29
SMICGS: A novel snapshot multispectral imaging sensor for quantitative monitoring of crop growth	29
Time-Series Field Phenotyping of Soybean Growth Analysis by Combining Multimodal Deep Learning and Dynamic Modeling	28
Boosting leaf trait estimation from reflectance spectra by elucidating the transferability of PLSR models	27
3D U-Net Segmentation Improves Root System Reconstruction from 3D MRI Images in Automated and Manual Virtual Reality Work Flows	25
Can Distributed Ledgers Help to Overcome the Need of Labeled Data for Agricultural Machine Learning Tasks?	25
Phenotyping of Panicle Number and Shape in Rice Breeding Materials Based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Imagery	25
Multi-sensor phenotyping of yield and yield stability for genotype selection in durum wheat	24
High-Throughput Field Plant Phenotyping: A Self-Supervised Sequential CNN Method to Segment Overlapping Plants	24
A Generic Model to Estimate Wheat LAI over Growing Season Regardless of the Soil-Type Background	24
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	24
High-throughput estimation of sugarcane phenotypic traits using UAV multispectral data under high-density planting conditions	24
Segmenting vegetation from UAV images via spectral reconstruction in complex field environments	23
CLIP-TLNet: Canopy light interception prediction with Transformer-LSTM network through 3D complexity-temporal dynamics modeling	23
Quantifying Contributions of Different Factors to Canopy Photosynthesis in 2 Maize Varieties: Development of a Novel 3D Canopy Modeling Pipeline	22
Multi-granularity alignment for crop diseases detection	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
Physiology-informed LSTM framework integrating crop model and Sentinel-2 time series for rice nitrogen status estimation	22
Characterization and Identification of NPK Stress in Rice Using Terrestrial Hyperspectral Images	21
Fitting maximum crown width height of Chinese fir through ensemble learning combined with fine spatial competition	21
Functional–Structural Plant Model “GreenLab”: A State-of-the-Art Review	21
Application of Visible/Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Hyperspectral Imaging with Machine Learning for High-Throughput Plant Heavy Metal Stress Phenotyping: A Review	21
Unraveling plant phenotype to genotype associations with daily hyperspectral traits in Populus trichocarpa	20
From Neglecting to Including Cultivar-Specific Per Se Temperature Responses: Extending the Concept of Thermal Time in Field Crops	20
Conditional reliability of chlorophyll fluorescence for inferring photosynthesis in Ginkgo biloba: evidence from fluctuating light and drought conditions	20
PlantSpecLab: A comprehensive open-source platform for high-throughput plant spectral data processing and phenotypic modeling	20
A keypoint-based method for detecting weed growth points in corn field environments	20
CVRP: A rice image dataset with high-quality annotations for image segmentation and plant phenomics research	20
A parallel resnet-transformer and cross-modal attention network for identification of rice blast resistance using UAV-based visible-infrared imagery	19
Plant3R: Fusing 3D feature learning with Gaussian splatting to enhance wheat plant 3D reconstruction precision	19
Noninvasive Detection of Salt Stress in Cotton Seedlings by Combining Multicolor Fluorescence–Multispectral Reflectance Imaging with EfficientNet-OB2	19
TM-WSNet: A precise segmentation method for individual rubber trees based on UAV LiDAR point cloud	18
UAV-Assisted Dynamic Monitoring of Wheat Uniformity toward Yield and Biomass Estimation	18
Pre-symptomatic diagnosis of rice blast and brown spot diseases using chlorophyll fluorescence imaging	18
Integrating UAV remote sensing and semi-supervised learning for early-stage maize seedling monitoring and geolocation	18

Informed-Learning-Guided Visual Question Answering Model of Crop Disease	18
Integrating 3D Canopy Reconstruction to Assess Photosynthetic and Carbon Sequestration Responses of Larch Plantations to Drought Stress	17
panomiX: Investigating mechanisms of trait emergence through multi-omics data integration	17
Near-infrared spectroscopy as a high-throughput phenotyping method for fusiform rust resistance in loblolly pine	17
Point Cloud Completion of Plant Leaves under Occlusion Conditions Based on Deep Learning	17
AFM-YOLOv8s: An Accurate, Fast, and Highly Robust Model for Detection of Sporangia of Plasmopara viticola with Various Morphological Variants	17
Automatic 3D Plant Organ Instance Segmentation Method Based on PointNeXt and Quickshift++	17
Combinatorial Maps, a New Framework to Model Agroforestry Systems	17
Benchmarking Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning Methods for Image-Based Plant Phenotyping	17
Volumetric Deep Learning-Based Precision Phenotyping of Gene-Edited Tomato for Vertical Farming	17
The blessing of Depth Anything: An almost unsupervised approach to crop segmentation with depth-informed pseudo labeling	17
Quantification of the Cumulative Shading Capacity in a Maize–Soybean Intercropping System Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle	17
Counting Canola: Toward Generalizable Aerial Plant Detection Models	16
Panoptic segmentation for complete labeling of fruit microstructure in 3D micro-CT images with deep learning	16
Three-Dimensional Leaf Edge Reconstruction Combining Two- and Three-Dimensional Approaches	16
WITHDRAWN: Targeted integrating hyperspectral and metabolomic data with spectral indices and metabolite content models for efficient salt-tolerant phenotype discrimination in Medicago truncatula	16
Potential of Establishing the Universal Critical Nitrogen Dilution Curve for Japonica Rice	16
Three-dimensional reconstruction of densely planted rice seedlings based on MultiView images	16
Efficient Noninvasive FHB Estimation using RGB Images from a Novel Multiyear, Multirater Dataset	16
A Precise Image-Based Tomato Leaf Disease Detection Approach Using PLPNet	16
High-throughput phenotyping of wheat ear surface area and ear density in the field	16
Practical Considerations and Limitations of Using Leaf and Canopy Temperature Measurements as a Stomatal Conductance Proxy: Sensitivity across Environmental Conditions, Scale, and Sample Size	16
Making the Genotypic Variation Visible: Hyperspectral Phenotyping in Scots Pine Seedlings	16
CSNet: A Count-Supervised Network via Multiscale MLP-Mixer for Wheat Ear Counting	16
Atlas-based spatiotemporal MRI phenotyping of 3D fungal spread in grapevine wood	16
Semi-supervised Counting of Grape Berries in the Field Based on Density Mutual Exclusion	16
DomAda-FruitDet: Domain-Adaptive Anchor-Free Fruit Detection Model for Auto Labeling	16
Cross-modal data integration and spectral optimization for enhanced individual apple tree canopy nitrogen concentration estimation using UAV remote sensing	16
Crop/Plant Modeling Supports Plant Breeding: II. Guidance of Functional Plant Phenotyping for Trait Discovery	16