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Detecting Sorghum Plant and Head Features from Multispectral UAV Imagery

In plant breeding, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) carrying multispectral cameras have demonstrated increasing utility for …
Yan Zhao, Bangyou Zheng, Scott C. Chapman, Kenneth Laws, Barbara George-Jaeggli, Graeme L. Hammer, David R. Jordan, Andries B. Potgieter
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Detecting Sorghum Plant and Head Features from Multispectral UAV Imagery

Global Wheat Head Detection 2021: An Improved Dataset for Benchmarking Wheat Head Detection Methods

The Global Wheat Head Detection (GWHD) dataset was created in 2020 and has assembled 193,634 labelled wheat heads from 4700 RGB images …
Etienne David, Mario Serouart, Daniel Smith, Simon Madec, Kaaviya Velumani, Shouyang Liu, Xu Wang, Francisco Pinto, Shahameh Shafiee, Izzat S. A. Tahir, Hisashi Tsujimoto, Shuhei Nasuda, Bangyou Zheng, Norbert Kirchgessner, Helge Aasen, Andreas Hund, Pouria Sadhegi-Tehran, Koichi Nagasawa, Goro Ishikawa, Sébastien Dandrifosse, Alexis Carlier, Benjamin Dumont, Benoit Mercatoris, Byron Evers, Ken Kuroki, Haozhou Wang, Masanori Ishii, Minhajul A. Badhon, Curtis Pozniak, David Shaner LeBauer, Morten Lillemo, Jesse Poland, Scott Chapman, Benoit de Solan, Frédéric Baret, Ian Stavness, Wei Guo
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Global Wheat Head Detection 2021: An Improved Dataset for Benchmarking Wheat Head Detection Methods

Understanding the Effects of Growing Seasons, Genotypes, and Their Interactions on the Anthesis Date of Wheat Sown in North China

Quantitative studies on the effects of growing season, genotype (including photoperiod genes and vernalization genes), and their …
Ziwei Li, Bangyou Zheng, Yong He
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Understanding the Effects of Growing Seasons, Genotypes, and Their Interactions on the Anthesis Date of Wheat Sown in North China

Comparison of Modelling Strategies to Estimate Phenotypic Values from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with Spectral and Temporal Vegetation Indexes

Aboveground dry weight (AGDW) and leaf area index (LAI) are indicators of crop growth status and grain yield as affected by …
Pengcheng Hu, Scott Chapman, Huidong Jin, Yan Guo, Bangyou Zheng
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Comparison of Modelling Strategies to Estimate Phenotypic Values from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with Spectral and Temporal Vegetation Indexes

Using a gene-based phenology model to identify optimal flowering periods of spring wheat in irrigated mega-environments

To maximise the grain yield of spring wheat, flowering needs to coincide with the optimal flowering period (OFP) by minimising frost …
Pengcheng Hu, Scott Chapman, Susanne Dreisigacker, Sivakumar Sukumaran, Matthew Reynolds, Bangyou Zheng
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Using a gene-based phenology model to identify optimal flowering periods of spring wheat in irrigated mega-environments

Genotype specific P-spline response surfaces assist interpretation of regional wheat adaptation to climate change

Yield is a function of environmental quality and the sensitivity with which genotypes react to that. Environmental quality is …
Daniela Bustos-Korts, Martin P Boer, Karine Chenu, Bangyou Zheng, Scott Chapman, Fred van Eeuwijk
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Genotype specific P-spline response surfaces assist interpretation of regional wheat adaptation to climate change

Coupling of machine learning methods to improve estimation of ground coverage from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery for high-throughput phenotyping of crops

Ground coverage (GC) allows monitoring of crop growth and development and is normally estimated as the ratio of vegetation to the total …
Pengcheng Hu, Scott Chapman, Bangyou Zheng
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Coupling of machine learning methods to improve estimation of ground coverage from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery for high-throughput phenotyping of crops

Modeling the joint impacts of ozone and aerosols on crop yields in China: An air pollution policy scenario analysis

China has successfully reduced particulate matter pollution, but ozone concentrations continually grow. Here, we employed a atmospheric …
Tianyi Zhang, Xu Yue, Nadine Unger, Zhaozhong Feng, Bangyou Zheng, Tao Li, Yadong Lei, Hao Zhou, Xin Dong, Yu Liu, Jiang Zhu, Xiaoguang Yang
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Integrating Crop Growth Models with Remote Sensing for Predicting Biomass Yield of Sorghum

Plant phenotypes are often descriptive, rather than predictive of crop performance. As a result, extensive testing is required in plant …
Kai-Wei Yang, Scott Chapman, Neal Carpenter, Graeme Hammer, Greg McLean, Bangyou Zheng, Yuhao Chen, Edward Delp, Ali Masjedi, Melba Crawford, David Ebert, Ayman Habib, Addie Thompson, Clifford Weil, Mitchell R Tuinstra
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ModelingGlobal Wheat Head Detection (GWHD) Dataset: A Large and Diverse Dataset of High-Resolution RGB-Labelled Images to Develop and Benchmark Wheat Head Detection Methods

The detection of wheat heads in plant images is an important task for estimating pertinent wheat traits including head population …
Etienne David, Simon Madec, Pouria Sadeghi-Tehran, Helge Aasen, Bangyou Zheng, Shouyang Liu, Norbert Kirchgessner, Goro Ishikawa, Koichi Nagasawa, Minhajul A. Badhon, Curtis Pozniak, Benoit de Solan, Andreas Hund, Scott C. Chapman, Frédéric Baret, Ian Stavness, Wei Guo
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Does precipitation keep pace with temperature in the marginal double-cropping area of northern China?

Northern China is the major grain-production region in the country. To adapt to climate change and ensure food security with a fixed …
Jiqing Gao, Xiaoguang Yang, Bangyou Zheng, Zhijuan Liu, Jin Zhao, Shuang Sun
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A reduced‐tillering trait shows small but important yield gains in dryland wheat production

Reducing the number of tillers per plant using a tiller inhibition (tin ) gene has been considered as an important trait for wheat …
Alireza Houshmandfar, Noboru Ota, Garry J. O'Leary, Bangyou Zheng, Yang Chen, Sabine Tausz-Posch, Glenn J. Fitzgerald, Richard Richards, Greg J. Rebetzke, Michael Tausz
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Designing crops for adaptation to the drought and high‐temperature risks anticipated in future climates

Climate risks pervade agriculture and generate major consequences on crop production. We do not know what the next season will be like, …
Graeme Hammer, Greg McLean, Erik van Oosterom, Scott Chapman, Bangyou Zheng, Alex Wu, Al Doherty, David Jordan
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Enabling breeding of spring wheat for optimisation of flowering time for current and future climates by linking genetic maps to simulation model parameters

In Australian wheat production, optimizing wheat phenology is essential to reach yield potential and to avoid within‐season stress at …
Matthieu Bogard, Ben Biddulph, Bangyou Zheng, Matthew Hayden, Haydn Kuchel, Dan Mullan, Vincent Allard, Jacques Le Gouis, Scott C. Chapman
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From QTLs to Adaptation Landscapes: Using Genotype-To-Phenotype Models to Characterize G×E Over Time

Genotype by environment interaction (G×E) for the target trait, e.g. yield, is an emerging property of agricultural systems and results …
Daniela Bustos-Korts, Marcos Malosetti, Karine Chenu, Scott Chapman, Martin P. Boer, Bangyou Zheng, Fred A. van Eeuwijk
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Combining Crop Growth Modeling and Statistical Genetic Modeling to Evaluate Phenotyping Strategies

Genomic prediction of complex traits, say yield, benefits from including information on correlated component traits. Statistical …
Daniela Bustos-Korts, Martin P. Boer, Marcos Malosetti, Scott Chapman, Karine Chenu, Bangyou Zheng, Fred A. van Eeuwijk
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Extraction of phenotypic traits using unmanned aerial vehicle for field experiments in the agronomy and crop breeding

With advances in camera and robotic technologies, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) provide the means to capture images at sufficiently …
Pengcheng Hu, Bangyou Zheng, Scott Chapman

Establishing a value proposition for future traits in a climate-changing world.

Increasing climate variability is as great a concern as increasing air temperatures forecast with climate change. The challenge for …
Greg Rebetzke, Kathryn Bechaz, Michelle Murfit, Gina Bange, Tina Rathjen, Fernanda Dreccer, Warren Muller, Andrew Fletcher, Bangyou Zheng, Enli Wang, Zhigan Zhao, Neil Fettell

Assessment of traits related with water productivity in the Australian wheatbelt using an improved version of the APSIM-Wheat model.

Traits related with water productivity in dryland cropping interact in multiple ways to influence final grain yield. The APSIM-Wheat …
Bangyou Zheng, Fernanda Dreccer, Scott Chapman, Enli Wang, Karine Chenu

Estimation of plot variability using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for the wheat breeding trials

Gaps in breeders’ plots (spatial variability) are caused by multiple biotic and abiotic stresses (i.e. poor seed gemination, frost, …
Pengcheng Hu, Anton Wasson, Scott Chapman, Bangyou Zheng

Assessment of traits related with water productivity in the Australian wheatbelt using an improved version of the APSIM-Wheat model.

Traits related with water productivity in dryland cropping interact in complex ways to influence final grain yield. Over the last …
Bangyou Zheng, Fernanda Dreccer, Behnam Ababaei, Scott Chapman, Zhigan Zhao, Enli Wang, Karine Chenu

Pixel size of aerial imagery constrains the applications of unmanned aerial vehicle in crop breeding

Image analysis using proximal sensors can help accelerate the selection process in plant breeding and improve the breeding efficiency. …
Pengcheng Hu, Wei Guo, Scott C.Chapman, Yan Guo, Bangyou Zheng
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A Weakly Supervised Deep Learning Framework for Sorghum Head Detection and Counting

The yield of cereal crops such as sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) depends on the distribution of crop-heads in varying branching …
Sambuddha Ghosal, Bangyou Zheng, Scott C. Chapman, Andries B. Potgieter, David R. Jordan, Xuemin Wang, Asheesh K. Singh, Arti Singh, Masayuki Hirafuji, Seishi Ninomiya, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Soumik Sarkar, Wei Guo
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Effects of climate change on the extension of the potential double cropping region and crop water requirements in Northern China

Multiple cropping systems have been widely used in China as smart strategies to address climate change to ensure that increasing food …
Jiqing Gao, Xiaoguang Yang, Bangyou Zheng, Zhijuan Liu, Jin Zhao, Shuang Sun, Kenan Li, Chaoyang Dong
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A generic approach to modelling, allocation and redistribution of biomass to and from plant organs

Accurate prediction of the allocation and redistribution of crop biomass is essential for simulating the impact of crop traits and …
Hamish E Brown, Neil I Huth, Dean P Holzworth, Edmar I Teixeira, Enli Wang, Rob F Zyskowski, Bangyou Zheng
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Accuracy assessment of plant height using an unmanned aerial vehicle for quantitative genomic analysis in bread wheat

Background: Plant height is an important selection target since it is associated with yield potential, stability and particularly with …
Muhammad Adeel Hassan, Mengjiao Yang, Luping Fu, Awais Rasheed, Bangyou Zheng, Xianchun Xia, Yonggui Xiao, Zhonghu He
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Modelling impact of early vigour on wheat yield in dryland regions

Early vigour, or faster early leaf area development, has been considered an important trait for rainfed wheat in dryland regions such …
Zhigan Zhao, Greg J Rebetzke, Bangyou Zheng, Scott C Chapman, Enli Wang
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Improving process-based crop models to better capture genotype×environment×management interactions

In spite of the increasing expectation for process-based crop modelling to capture genotype (G) by environment (E) by management (M) …
Enli Wang, Hamish Brown, Greg J Rebetzke, Zhigan Zhao, Bangyou Zheng, Scott C Chapman
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A new probabilistic forecasting model for canopy temperature with consideration of periodicity and parameter variation

Continuous measurement of canopy temperature is an important indicator of plant water status of crops and the ability to predict canopy …
Quanxi Shao, Michael Bange, James Mahan, Huidong Jin, Hizbullah Jamali, Bangyou Zheng, Scott C. Chapman
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Characterization of peach tree crown by using high-resolution images from an unmanned aerial vehicle

In orchards, measuring crown characteristics is essential for monitoring the dynamics of tree growth and optimizing farm management. …
Yue Mu, Yuichiro Fujii, Daisuke Takata, Bangyou Zheng, Koji Noshita, Kiyoshi Honda, Seishi Ninomiya, Wei Guo
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The Value of Tactical Adaptation to El Niño–Southern Oscillation for East Australian Wheat

El Niño–Southern Oscillation strongly influences rainfall and temperature patterns in Eastern Australia, with major impacts on frost, …
Bangyou Zheng, Scott Chapman, Karine Chenu
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Direct and Indirect Costs of Frost in the Australian Wheatbelt

Breeding for improved reproductive frost tolerance could allow greater yield and economic benefits to be achieved by (i) reducing …
Duc-Anh An-Vo, Shahbaz Mushtaq, Bangyou Zheng, Jack T Christopher, Scott C Chapman, Karine Chenu
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PhenoCopter: An cloud based solution for image processing captured by unmanned aerial vehicle in high throughput phenotyping

As the advances of technologies, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are more convenient to capture images in large scale to extract crop …
Bangyou Zheng, Pengcheng Hu, Scott Chapman

Estimation of aboveground biomass and leaf area for a wheat trial index using unmanned aerial vehicle

Aboveground biomass (AGB) and leaf area index (LAI) are very important in plant breeding and precision agriculture, as major indicators …
Pengcheng Hu, Scott Chapman, Warren Jin, Yan Guo, Bangyou Zheng

Efficient characterization of orchard tree using high resolution images from unmanned aerial vehicle An effective method for crown characteristics analysis in orchard using UAV images

[Background] In orchard, phenotyping the crown related characteristics (e.g. crown diameter and area) is important for monitoring the …
Yue Mu, Bangyou Zheng, Daisuke Takata, Yuichiro Fujii, Koji Noshita, Kiyoshi Honda, Seishi Ninomiya, Wei Guo

Estimation of plant height using a high throughput phenotyping platform based on unmanned aerial vehicle and self-calibration: Example for sorghum breeding

Plant height is an essential trait to evaluate in grain sorghum, being positively associated with potential grain yield. Standard …
Pengcheng Hu, Scott Chapman, Xuemin Wang, Andries Potgieter, Tao Duan, David Jordan, Yan Guo, Bangyou Zheng
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APSIM Next Generation: Overcoming challenges in modernising a farming systems model

From 1990, the Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator (APSIM) has grown from a field-focused farming systems framework used by a …
Dean Holzwortha, N. Huth, J. Fainges, H. Brown, E. Zurcher, R. Cichota, S. Verrall, N. I. Herrmanna, Bangyou Zheng, V. Snow
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Modelling maize phenology, biomass growth and yield under contrasting temperature conditions

Crop modelling has become an effective means to assess climate change impact on crop yield and to assist in development of adaptation …
Na Wang, Enli Wang, Jing Wang, Jianping Zhang, Bangyou Zheng, Yi Huang, Meixiu Tan
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McGET: A rapid image-based method to determine the morphological characteristics of gravels on the Gobi desert surface

The relationship between morphological characteristics (e.g. gravel size, coverage, angularity and orientation) and local geomorphic …
Yue Mu, Feng Wang, Bangyou Zheng, Wei Guo, Yiming Feng
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Projected impact of future climate on water-stress patterns across the Australian wheatbelt

Drought frequently limits Australian wheat production, and the expected future increase in temperatures and rainfall variability will …
James Watson, Bangyou Zheng, Scott Chapman, Karine Chenu
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The big impacts of image resolution on the estimation of ground coverage for wheat in UAV survey

Ground coverage (GC) is a simple and important trait to monitor crop growth and development, which can be easily captured by visual …
Pengcheng Hu, Wei Guo, Scott Chapman, Yan Guo, Bangyou Zheng

PhenoCopter: An cloud based platform to manage, process and visualize images captured by unmanned aerial vehicle for high throughput phenotyping

As the advances of technologies, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are more convenient to capture images in large scale to extract crop …
Bangyou Zheng, Pengcheng Hu, Scott Chapman

Optimizing soil-coring strategies to quantify root-length-density distribution in field-grown maize: virtual coring trials using 3-D root architecture models

Background and Aims

Root distribution has a major influence on soil exploration and nutrient and water acquisition by plants. Soil …
Qian Qu, Jie Wu, Bangyou Zheng, Yan Guo
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Estimation of canopy height using an unmanned aerial vehicle in the field during wheat growth season

Canopy height is a simple trait to represent status of plant growth and development and potentially biomass production, as well as …
Pengcheng Hu, Tao Duan, Scott Chapman, Yan Guo, Bangyou Zheng
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Assessment of canopy growth and development for three wheat cultivars under different water and nitrogen regimes

Traits related to water productivity in dryland cropping interact in multiple ways to influence final grain yield. Crop modelling can …
Bangyou Zheng, Karine Chenu, Fernanda Dreccer, Greg Rebetzke , Scott Chapman
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Improving the relationships used to define frost damage to wheat in crop models

In order to predict the consequences and value of frost adaptation through breeding and agronomy across Australia’s cropping region it …
Kirsten Barlow, Bangyou Zheng, Garry O’Leary, Scott Chapman
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Economic assessment of wheat breeding options for potential improved levels of post head-emergence frost tolerance

Frost, during reproductive developmental stages, especially post head emergence frost (PHEF), can result in catastrophic yield loss for …
Shahbaz Mushtaq, Duc-Anh An-Vo, Mandy Christopher, Bangyou Zheng, Karine Chenue, Scott Chapman, Jack Christopher, Roger Stone, Troy Frederiks, Monirul Alam
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Dynamic monitoring of NDVI in wheat agronomy and breeding trials using an unmanned aerial vehicle

While new technologies can capture high-resolution normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), a surrogate for biomass and leaf …
Tao Duan, Scott Chapman, Yan Guo, Bangyou Zheng
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Quantifying high temperature risks and their potential effects on sorghum production in Australia

High temperatures across the Australian sorghum belt can reduce sorghum yields, but genotypic differences in heat tolerance could …
Vijaya Singh, Chuc T. Nguyen, Greg McLean, Scott C. Chapman, Bangyou Zheng, Erik J. van Oosterom, Graeme L. Hammer
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EasyPCC: Benchmark Datasets and Tools for High-Throughput Measurement of the Plant Canopy Coverage Ratio under Field Conditions

Understanding interactions of genotype, environment, and management under field conditions is vital for selecting new cultivars and …
Wei Guo, Bangyou Zheng, Tao Duan, Tokihiro Fukatsu, Scott Chapman, Seishi Ninomiya
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Drought in wheat – Past and future trends

Understanding how climate is varying and is likely affecting crop productivity in the coming decades is essential for global food …
Karine Chenu, James Watson, Jack Christopher, Scott Chapman

Comparison of ground cover estimates from experiment plots in cotton, sorghum and sugarcane based on images and ortho-mosaics captured by UAV

Ground cover is an important physiological trait affecting crop radiation capture, water-use efficiency and grain yield. It is …
Tao Duan, Bangyou Zheng, Wei Guo, Seishi Ninomiya, Yan Guo, Scott Chapman
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Dynamic monitoring of canopy structure by time serial photography of early stage growth of wheat

Early vigour is an important physiological trait to improve establishment, water-use efficiency and grain yield for wheat. Phenotyping …
Tao Duan, Scott Chapman, Edward Holland, Yan Guo, Bangyou Zheng

The gravel coverage and size of Gobi desert analyzed by a rapid image-based method

The Gobi desert is one of the most widespread landscapes in northwest China. The coverage and morphological characteristics of gravels …
Yue Mu, Feng Wang, Bangyou Zheng, Yiming Wang

Identification of Earliness Per Se Flowering Time Locus in Spring Wheat through a Genome-Wide Association Study

Identification of earliness per se (Eps) flowering time loci in spring wheat are troublesome due to confounding effects of …
Sivakumar Sukumaran, Marta S. Lopes, Susanne Dreisigacker, Laura E. Dixon, Meluleki Zikhali, Simon Griffiths, Bangyou Zheng, Scott Chapman, Matthew P. Reynolds
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Improvement of the model capacity and assessment traits related with water use efficiency for wheat in Australia

Traits related with water productivity in dryland cropping interact in multiple ways to influence final grain yield, with traits being …
Bangyou Zheng, Fernanda Dreccer, Tao Duan, Greg Rebetzke, Hamish Brown, Yan Guo, Scott Chapman
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Recent changes in southern Australian frost occurrence: implications for wheat production risk

Frost damage remains a major problem for broadacre cropping, viticulture, horticulture and other agricultural industries in Australia. …
Steven Jeffery Crimp, Bangyou Zheng, Nirav Khimashia, David Lyon Gobbett, Scott Chapman, Mark Howden, Neville Nicholls
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Dynamic quantification of canopy structure to characterize early plant vigour in wheat genotypes

Early vigour is an important physiological trait to improve establishment, water-use efficiency, and grain yield for wheat. Phenotyping …
Tao Duan, Scott Chapman, Edward Holland, Yan Guo, Bangyou Zheng
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A standardized workflow to utilise a grid-computing system through advanced message queuing protocols

Point-based crop models are frequently used to investigate the interaction of genotype, environment and management (G × E × M) for …
Bangyou Zheng, Edward Holland, Scott Chapman
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Do maize models capture the impacts of heat and drought stresses on yield? Using algorithm ensembles to identify successful approaches

Stresses from heat and drought are expected to increasingly suppress crop yields, but the degree to which current models can represent …
Zhenong Jin, Qianlai Zhuang, Zeli Tan, Jeffrey S. Dukes, Bangyou Zheng, Jerry M. Melillo
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Do wheat breeders have suitable genetic variation to overcome short coleoptiles and poor establishment in the warmer soils of future climates?

Increases in air and soil temperatures will impact cereal growth and reduce crop yields. Little is known about how increasing …
Greg J. Rebetzke, Bangyou Zheng, Scott C. Chapman
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Quantitative evaluation of influence of PROSTRATE GROWTH 1 gene on rice canopy structure based on three-dimensional structure model

The discovery and separation of the PROSTRATE GROWTH 1 gene has significantly contributed to reveal the molecular mechanism of rice …
Shan Hua, Bingshuai Cao, Bangyou Zheng, Baoguo Li, Chuanqing Sun
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Simplification of leaf surfaces from scanned data: Effects of two algorithms on leaf morphology

New technologies, such as three-dimensional (3D) laser scanning and stereo imaging, have recently been adopted for quantifying plant …
Tongyu Hou, Bangyou Zheng, Zhaoli Xu, Yuhong Yang, Yan Chen, Yan Guo
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Assessment of the Potential Impacts of Wheat Plant Traits across Environments by Combining Crop Modeling and Global Sensitivity Analysis

A crop can be viewed as a complex system with outputs (e.g. yield) that are affected by inputs of genetic, physiology, pedo-climatic …
Pierre Casadebaig, Bangyou Zheng, Scott Chapman, Neil Huth, Robert Faivre, Karine Chenu
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Velocity of temperature and flowering time in wheat – assisting breeders to keep pace with climate change

By accelerating crop development, warming climates may result in mismatches between key sensitive growth stages and extreme climate …
Bangyou Zheng, Karine Chenu, Scott Chapman
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Quantification of direct and indirect cost of frost for the Australian wheatbelt

A single post head-emergence frosts (PHEF) event has the potential to devastate individual wheat crops by damaging stems and killing …
Duc-Ang An-Vo, Shahbaz Mushtaq, Bangyou Zheng, Karine Chenu, Scott Chapman, Jack Christopher
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Projected impacts of climate change on drought stresses in Australian wheat

Wheat is one of the primary staple foods. Due to a rising population and improved living standards, demand for this crop continues to …
James Watson, Bangyou Zheng, Scott Chapman, Karine Chenu

Heat stress effects on grain sorghum productivity – biology and modelling

Heat stress shock has been known to cause sterility in sorghum and the anticipated increasing frequency of heat shock events with …
Vijaya Singh, Scott Chapman, Graeme Hammer, Eric Van Oosterom, Greg McLean, Bangyou Zheng, David Jordan

Breeding for the future: How to adapt to frost, drought and heat impacts in Australian wheat

While extreme climatic events (frost, heat and drought) can already severely limit wheat production, the expected future increase in …
Karine Chenu, Bangyou Zheng, James Watson, Scott Chapman
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The shifting influence of drought and heat stress for crops in Northeast Australia

Characterization of drought environment types (ETs) has proven useful for breeding crops for drought-prone regions. Here, we consider …
David B. Lobell, Graeme L. Hammer, Karine Chenu, Bangyou Zheng, Greg McLean, Scott C. Chapman
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Predicting heading date and frost impact in wheat across Australia

Spring radiant frosts occurring when wheat is in reproductive developmental stages can result in catastrophic yield lost for producers. …
Bangyou Zheng, Scott Chapman, Jack Christopher, Troy Frederiks, Karine Chenu
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Gene-based prediction of heading time to target real-time and future climate adaptation in wheat

Spring wheat production systems in Australia require fine-tuning of heading time in order to maximise the efficient use of resources …
Scott Chapman, Bangyou Zheng, Ben Biddulph, Matthews Bogard, Karine Chenu
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Crop modelling to aid crop improvement

Substantial genotype x environment interactions impede breeding progress for yield. Identifying genetic controls associated with yield …
Karine Chenu, Bangyou Zheng, James Watson, Jack Christopher, Scott Chapman
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Climate change adaptation in Australian wheat farm systems upscaled from farm to national scale

Wheat is one of the main grains produced across the globe and wheat yields are highly sensitive to changes in climate. Australia is one …
Afshin Ghahramani Dangharalo, Philip Kokic, Andrew Moore, Bangyou Zheng

The value of adapting to climate change in Australian wheat farm systems: farm to cross-regional scale

Wheat is one of the main grains produced across the globe and wheat yields are sensitive to changes in climate. Australia is a major …
Afshin Ghahramani, Philip N. Kokic, Andrew D. Moore, Bangyou Zheng, Scott C.Chapman, Mark S.Howden, Steven J. Crimp
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Frost trends and their estimated impact on yield in the Australian wheatbelt

Radiant spring frosts occurring during reproductive developmental stages can result in catastrophic yield loss for wheat producers. To …
Bangyou Zheng, Scott Chapman, Jack Christopher, Troy Frederiks, Karine Chenu
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National scale adaptation value in wheat farm systems by 2030, filling the yield gap or interactive benefits?

Abstract A large set of biophysical system-modelling simulations were undertaken for a set of 30 representative farm systems across the …
Afshin Ghahramani Dangharalou, Phil Kokic, Bangyou Zheng, Andrew Moore, Mark Howden

Crop design for specific adaptation in variable dryland production environments

Climatic variability in dryland production environments (E) generates variable yield and crop production risks. Optimal combinations of …
Graeme L. Hammer, Greg McLean, Scott Chapman, Bangyou Zheng, Al Doherty, Matthew T. Harrison, Erik van Oosterom, David Jordan
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Pheno-Copter: a low-altitude, autonomous remote-sensing robotic helicopter for high-throughput field-based phenotyping

Plant breeding trials are extensive (100s to 1000s of plots) and are difficult and expensive to monitor by conventional means, …
Scott C. Chapman, Torsten Merz, Amy Chan, Paul Jackway, Stefan Hrabar, M. Fernanda Dreccer, Edward Holland, Bangyou Zheng, Jun Ling, Jose Jimenez-Berni
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Pheno-Copter: A Low-Altitude, Autonomous Remote-Sensing Robotic Helicopter for High-Throughput Field-Based Phenotyping

Plant breeding trials are extensive (100s to 1000s of plots) and are difficult and expensive to monitor by conventional means, …
Scott C. Chapman, Torsten Merz, Amy Chan, Paul Jackway, Stefan Hrabar, M. Fernanda Dreccer, Edward Holland, Bangyou Zheng, Jun Ling, Jose Jimenez-Berni
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Breeding for the future: How to adapt to potential impacts of future frost, drought and heat events on Australian wheat?

While extreme climatic events (frost, heat and drought) can already severely limit wheat production, the expected future increase in …
Karine Chenu, Bangyou Zheng, Scott Chapman
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Breeding for the future – avoiding climate extremes and maximising yield of spring wheat in water-limited environments

Scott Chapman, Bangyou Zheng, Karine Chenu, Matthieu Bogard
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Using gene-based information to adapt wheat flowering time to avoid heat, frost and drought stresses in current and future climates

Varying the timing of reproductive stages of growth relative to climatic stresses is a useful adaptation to maintain yields. In future …
Bangyou Zheng, Karine Chenu, Scott Chapman
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Role of genotypic variation in response to increasing temperatures in wheat

Fernanda Dreccer, Kimberley Wockner, Bangyou Zheng, Scott Chapman, Lynne McIntyre, Karine Chenu, Daniel Miralles
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Predicting heading time of Australian wheat using effects of VRN1 and Ppd-D1

Flowering time is a main determinant of wheat adaptation to diverse environments and is influenced by three groups of genes, earliness …
Bangyou Zheng, Ben Biddulph, Dora Li, Haydn Kuchel, Scott Chapman
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Crop design for specific adaptation in variable dryland production environment

Climatic variability in dryland production environments (E) generates crop production risks. Optimal combinations of genotype (G) and …
Graeme Hammer, Greg McLean, Scott Chapman, Bangyou Zheng, Al Doherty, Matthew Harrison, Erik van Oosterom, David Jordan

Quantification of the effects of VRN1 and Ppd-D1 to predict spring wheat (Triticum aestivum) heading time across diverse environments

Heading time is a major determinant of the adaptation of wheat to different environments, and is critical in minimizing risks of frost, …
Bangyou Zheng, Ben Biddulph, Dora Li, Haydn Kuchel, Scott Chapman
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Wheat response to drought and heat - Using crop modelling to prepare for the future

While extreme temperature and frequent drought severely affect wheat production, predictions of climate change forecast increased …
Karine Chenu, Jack Christopher, Bangyou Zheng, Mathieu Veyradier, Al Doherty, Florianne Oudin, Graeme Hammer, Fernanda Dreccer, Scott Chapman
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Association genetics for earliness components and QTL-based ecophysiological predictions of heading date provide tools to optimize heading date through breeding

Matthieu Bogard, Bangyou Zheng, Hayden Kuchel, Ben Biddulph, Scott Chapman
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Breeding for the future: what are the potential impacts of future frost and heat events on sowing and flowering time requirements for Australian bread wheat (Triticum aestivium) varieties?

Extreme climate, especially temperature, can severely reduce wheat yield. As global warming has already begun to increase mean …
Bangyou Zheng, Karine Chenu, Fernanda Dreccer, Scott Chapman
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Crop improvement, ideotyping and modelling under climate change

The year 2050 is two to five full cycles of plant breeding from the present. Given that it takes 3 to 20 years to develop a new …
Scott Chapman, Karine Chenu, Fernanda Dreccer, Davie Jordan, Graeme Hammer, Kimberley Wockner, Bangyou Zheng
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Frost and heat limits to the wheat flowering ‘window’ in present and future climates

To pollinate and set grain, Australian wheat needs to flower in spring in a ‘window’ when risks of frost or heat stress are low. Other …
Bangyou Zheng, Karine Chenu, Fernanda Dreccer, Scott Chapman
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Assessment of the influence of global dimming on the photosynthetic production of rice based on three-dimensional modeling

Observations indicate that global radiation reaching the Earth’s surface has gradually decreased over the past several decades (i.e., …
Bangyou Zheng, Yuntao Ma, Baoguo Li, Yan Guo, Qiyun Deng
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Assessment of the effects of leaf angle combinations on potential photosynthesis capacity of rice with 3-D models using high performance computing

Improving plant structure is pivotal for increasing the potential yield of crops. The aim of this paper was to evaluate the influence …
Bangyou Zheng, Yuntao Ma, Baoguo Li, Yan Guo, Qiyun Deng

Three-dimensional digitization in situ of rice canopies and virtual stratified-clipping method.

Objective: The aim of this paper was to explore a technology which can accurately reflect the three-dimensional (3D) canopy …
Bangyou Zheng, Lijuan Shi, Yuntao Ma, Qiyun Deng, BaoGuo Li, Yan Guo

Comparison of architecture among different cultivars of hybrid rice using spatial light model based on 3D digitizing

Modification of plant types (i.e. plant architecture) is an important strategy to enhance the yield potential of crops. The aims of …
Bangyou Zheng, Lijuan Shi, Yuntao Ma, Qiyun Deng, Baoguo Li, Yan Guo
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Canopy Architecture Quantification and Spatial Direct Light Interception Modeling of Hybrid Rice

Rice is one of the most important crops in the world, and hybrid rice is planted broadly in China which accounts for half of China’s …
Bangyou Zheng, Lijuan Shi, Yuntao Ma, Qiyun Deng, Baoguo Li, Yan Guo
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A field-based high-throughput method for acquiring canopy architecture using unmanned aerial vehicle images

Plant architectural traits are important selection criteria in plant breeding that relate to photosynthetic efficiency and crop …
Fusang Liu, Pengcheng Hu, Bangyou Zheng, Tao Duan, Binglin Zhu, Yan Guo
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