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. 2016 Aug 15;172(2):823–834. doi: 10.1104/pp.16.00948

Table I. Summary of the subset of traits automatically measured from the plant mesh used for the reported QTL analyses.

Additional descriptions of the methods used to obtain the measurements are found in Supplemental File S1.

Trait Type Measurement Description of Measured Trait
Composite Shoot height Vertical distance from the lowest shoot point to the highest shoot point, including leaves and inflorescence
Shoot surface area Surface area of the entire shoot
Shoot center of mass Vertical distance from the lowest shoot point to the shoot’s center of mass
Shoot compactness Surface area of the smallest convex polyhedron that contains the entire shoot (i.e. convex hull surface area)
Organ level Shoot cylinder height Vertical distance from the lowest shoot cylinder point to the highest shoot cylinder point
Leaf length Length of a leaf
Leaf surface area Surface area of a leaf
Leaf width Width of a leaf
Leaf angle Angle at which a leaf emerges from the shoot cylinder