Publications

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Combining ultralow-altitude drone phenotyping with deep learning analytics to assess resistance and disease dynamics of Fusarium head blight in wheat

Date: 18 August 2025

Contributors: Shuchen Liu, Jie Dai, Jinlong Huang, Zhenjie Wen, Wenli Zhang, Liyan Shen, Robert Jackson, Xiu’e Wang, Greg Deakin, Jin Xiao, Ji Zhou

Journal: The Crop Journal

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OrchardQuant‐3D: combining drone and LiDAR to perform scalable 3D phenotyping for characterising key canopy and floral traits in fruit orchards

Date: 23 July 2025

Contributors: Yunpeng Xia, Hanghang Li, Fanhang Zhang2, Gang Sun, Kaijie Qi, Robert Jackson, Felipe Pinheiro, Xiaoman Liu, Yue Mu, Shaoling Zhang, Greg Deakin, E Charles Whitfield, Shutian Tao, Ji Zhou

Journal: Plant Biotechnology Journal

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Quantifying tree-level peach flowering dynamics using UAV imagery and an optimized instance segmentation model

Date: 15 July 2025

Contributors: Qing Gu, Jiayu Cheng, Minghao Zhang, Xiongwei Li, Robert Jackson, Lei Ju, Weidong Lou, Miaojin Chen, Ji Zhou, Xiaobin Zhang

Journal: Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

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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

Date: 9 October 2024

Contributors: Liyan Shen, Guohui Ding, Robert Jackson, Mujahid Ali, Shuchen Liu, Arthur Mitchell, Yeyin Shi, Xuqi Lu, Jie Dai, Greg Deakin, Katherine Frels, Haiyan Cen, Yu-Feng Ge, Ji Zhou

Journal: Plant Phenomics

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The dissection of Nitrogen response traits using drone phenotyping and dynamic phenotypic analysis to explore N responsiveness and associated genetic loci in wheat

Date: 22 December 2023

Contributors: Ding G, Shen L, Dai J, et al., Zhou J

Journal: Plant Phenomics

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AirMeasurer: open-source software to quantify static and dynamic traits derived from multi-seas7on aerial phenotyping to empower genetic mapping studies in rice.

Date: 28 July 2022

Contributors: Sun G, Lu H, et al., Han B*, Zhou J*

Journal: New Phytologist

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Large-scale field phenotyping using LiDAR and CropQuant-3D to measure structural responses in wheat.

Date: 16 July 2021

Contributors: Zhu Y, Sun G, Ding G, et al., Ober E, Zhou J*

Journal: Plant Physiology

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SeedGerm: a cost-effective phenotyping platform for automated seed imaging and machine-learning based phenotypic analysis of crop seed germination

Date: 13 June 2020

Contributors: Colmer J, et al., Penfield S*, Zhou J*

Journal: New Phytologist

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Combining computer vision and deep learning to enable ultra-scale aerial phenotyping and precision agriculture: a case study of lettuce

Date: 1 June 2019

Contributors: Bauer, A., Bostrom, A.G., Ball, J., Applegate, C., Cheng, T., Laycock, S., Rojas, S.M., Kirwan, J. and Zhou, J

Journal: Horticulture Research

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CropSight: a scalable open and distributed data management system for crop phenotyping and IoT based crop management

Date: 31 January 2019

Contributors: Reynolds D, et al., Zhou J*

Journal: GigaScience

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Speed breeding is a powerful tool to accelerate crop research and breeding

Date: 1 January 2018

Contributors: Amy Watson, Sreya Ghosh, Matthew J. Williams, William S. Cuddy, James Simmonds, María-Dolores Rey, M. Asyraf Md Hatta, Alison Hinchliffe, Andrew Steed, Daniel Reynolds, Nikolai M. Adamski, Andy Breakspear, Andrey Korolev, Tracey Rayner, Laura E. Dixon, Adnan Riaz, William Martin, Merrill Ryan, David Edwards, Jacqueline Batley, Harsh Raman, Jeremy Carter, Christian Rogers, Claire Domoney, Graham Moore, Wendy Harwood, Paul Nicholson, Mark J. Dieters, Ian H. DeLacy, Ji Zhou, Cristobal Uauy, Scott A. Boden, Robert F. Park, Brande B. H. Wulff & Lee T. Hickey

Journal: Nature Plants

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Leaf-GP: an open and automated software application for measuring growth phenotypes for arabidopsis and wheat

Date: 22 December 2017

Contributors: Ji Zhou, Christopher Applegate, Albor Dobon Alonso, Daniel Reynolds, Simon Orford, Michal Mackiewicz, Simon Griffiths, Steven Penfield & Nick Pullen

Journal: Plant Methods volume

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Genomic innovation for crop improvement.

Date: 16 March 2017

Contributors: Bevan M. W., Uauy C., Wulff B. B. H., Zhou J., Krasileva K., Clark M. D.

Journal: Nature

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NB-LRR signaling induces translational repression of viral transcripts and the formation of RNA processing bodies through mechanisms differing from those activated by UV stress and RNAi

Date: 17 February 2016

Contributors: Louis-Valentin Meteignier, Ji Zhou, Mathias Cohen, Saikat Bhattacharjee, Chantal Brosseau, Maria Goretty Caamal Chan, Silke Robatzek, Peter Moffett

Journal: Journal of Experimental Botany

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A developmental framework for complex plasmodesmata formation revealed by large-scale imaging of the Arabidopsis leaf epidermis

Date: 1 January 2013

Contributors: Jessica Fitzgibbon, Martina Beck, Ji Zhou, Christine Faulkner, Silke Robatzek, Karl Oparka

Journal: The Plant Cell

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CalloseMeasurer: a novel software solution to measure callose deposition and recognise spreading callose patterns

Date: 17 December 2012

Contributors: Ji Zhou, Thomas Spallek, Christine Faulkner, Silke Robatzek

Journal: Plant Methods

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Spatio-Temporal Cellular Dynamics of the Arabidopsis Flagellin Receptor Reveal Activation Status-Dependent Endosomal Sorting

Date: 19 October 2012

Contributors: Martina Beck, Ji Zhou, Christine Faulkner, Daniel MacLean, Silke Robatzek

Journal: The Plant Cell