Citrus Propagation Methods - Excavated Root System Images

This dataset is composed of images from two different citrus rootstock trials designated "Field Trial 1" and "Field Trial 2". Each field trial was planted with trees of Citrus sinensis cv. 'Valencia' grafted onto 4 different, commercially available USDA citrus rootstocks: US-812, US-897, US-942, US-1516. The trees were excavated two years after planting, cleaned, dried, and imaged in two ways. First, the root systems were imaged radially as though you are looking down through the trunk of the tree with the roots radiating outward in all direction. Secondly, the root systems were imaged vertically in six different positions such that each image was a side view of the root system from a different angle. Additionally, the binary masks of the vertical root systems were included in each .tar file. All images were acquired with a Canon EOS Rebel T6 against a professional photography blue screen. A mapping of the image names to the experimental trial information is included in each .tar file, and a series of scaled images were taken before and after root system imaging to calculate the pixel to centimeter conversion for absolute measurements. This dataset is currently in beta as it may change at some point in the future, therefore until that time, this record will be set to restricted.