TY - CHAP

T1 - archiDART: a R package allowing root system architecture analysis using Data Analysis of Root Tracings (DART) output files

AU - Delory, Benjamin

AU - Baudson, Caroline

AU - Brostaux, Yves

AU - Pagès, Loïc

AU - du Jardin, Patrick

AU - Delaplace, Pierre

N1 - Conference code: 19

PY - 2014/2/7

Y1 - 2014/2/7

N2 - In 2010, Le Bot et al presented a free and open-access software (Data Analysis of Root Tracings - DART) allowing the analysis of complex root system architectures from captured images, particularly across time series. Using this software, a user has to manually identify roots as a set of links. After vectorization of a root system, three final data sets (RAC, TPS and LIE) can be exported as table files containing several attributes for (a) each individual root (e.g. root length), (b) each observation day or (c) each point used to construct the vectorized root system respectively. These data sets can finally be used either to calculate derived root system architecture (RSA) parameters or to draw the root system architecture at selected observation dates. However when an experiment involves the analysis and comparison of many root systems, the calculation of RSA parameters for each data set and the drawing of the corresponding vectorized root systems become time-consuming. In this context, we developed a R package, called archiDART, allowing both the automatic calculation of common root architecture parameters and the X-Y plotting of vectorized root systems for selected observation dates.

AB - In 2010, Le Bot et al presented a free and open-access software (Data Analysis of Root Tracings - DART) allowing the analysis of complex root system architectures from captured images, particularly across time series. Using this software, a user has to manually identify roots as a set of links. After vectorization of a root system, three final data sets (RAC, TPS and LIE) can be exported as table files containing several attributes for (a) each individual root (e.g. root length), (b) each observation day or (c) each point used to construct the vectorized root system respectively. These data sets can finally be used either to calculate derived root system architecture (RSA) parameters or to draw the root system architecture at selected observation dates. However when an experiment involves the analysis and comparison of many root systems, the calculation of RSA parameters for each data set and the drawing of the corresponding vectorized root systems become time-consuming. In this context, we developed a R package, called archiDART, allowing both the automatic calculation of common root architecture parameters and the X-Y plotting of vectorized root systems for selected observation dates.

KW - Biology

UR - http://www.events.gembloux.ulg.ac.be/nsabs2014/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2014/02/NSABS2014_book_short_abstracts.pdf

M3 - Published abstract in conference proceedings

SP - 14

BT - Book of short abstracts, poster presentations

PB - Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech

T2 - 19th National Symposium on Applied Biological Sciences - NSABS 2014

Y2 - 7 February 2014 through 7 February 2014

ER -