• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.137-142
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• 2003

The morphology of the leaves and the flowers of angiosperms exhibit remarkable diversity. One of the factors showing the greatest variability of leaf organs is the leaf index, namely, the ratio of leaf length to leaf width. In some cases, different varieties of a single species or closely related species can be distinguished by differences in leaf index. To some extent, the leaf index reflects the morphological adaptation of leaves to a particular environment. In addition, the growth of leaf organs is dependent on the extent of the expansion of leaf cells and on cell proliferation in the cellular level. The rates of the division and enlargement of leaf cells at each stage contribute to the final shape of the leaf, and play important roles throughout leaf development. Thus, the control of leaf shape is related to the control of the shape of cells and the size of cells within the leaf. The shape of flower also reflects the shape of leaf, since floral organs are thought to be a derivative of leaf organs. No good tools have been available for studies of the mechanisms that underlie such biodiversity. However, we have recently obtained some information about molecular mechanisms of leaf morphogenesis as a result of studies of leaves of the model plant, Arabidopsis thaliana. For example, the ANGUSTIFOLIA (AN) gene, a homolog of animal CtBP genes, controls leaf width. AN appears to regulate the polar elongation of leaf cells via control of the arrangement of cortical microtubules. By contrast, the ROTUNDIFOLIA3 (ROT3) gene controls leaf length via the biosynthesis of steroid(s). We provide here an overview of the biodiversity exhibited by the leaf index of angiosperms. Taken together, we can discuss on the possibility of the control of the shapes and size of plant organs by transgenic approaches with the results from basic researches. For example, transgenic plants that overexpressed a wildtype ROT3 gene had longer leaves than parent plants, without any changes in leaf width. Thus, The genes for leaf growth and development, such as ROT3 gene, should be useful tools for the biodesign of plant organs.

• 한국식물생명공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국식물생명공학회 2003년도 식물바이오벤처 페스티발
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• pp.49-55
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• 2003

The morphology of the leaves and the flowers of angiosperms exhibit remarkable diversity. One of the factors showing the greatest variability of leaf organs is the leaf index, namely, the ratio of leaf length to leaf width. In some cases, different varieties of a single species or closely related species can be distinguished by differences in leaf index. To some extent, the leaf index reflects the morphological adaptation of leaves to a particular environment. In addition, the growth of leaf organs is dependent on the extent of the expansion of leaf cells and on cell proliferation in the cellular level. The rates of the division and enlargement of leaf cells at each stage contribute to the final shape of the leaf, and play important roles throughout leaf development. Thus, the control of leaf shape is related to the control of the shape of cells and the size of cells within the leaf. The shape of flower also reflects the shape of leaf, since floral organs are thought to be a derivative of leaf organs. No good tools have been available for studies of the mechanisms that underlie such biodiversity. However, we have recently obtained some information about molecular mechanisms of leaf morphogenesis as a result of studies of leaves of the model plant, Arabidopsis thaliana. For example, the ANGUSTIFOLIA (AN) gene, a homolog of animal CtBP genes, controls leaf width. AN appears to regulate the polar elongation of leaf cells via control of the arrangement of cortical microtubules. By contrast, the ROTUNDIFOLIA3 (ROT3) gene controls leaf length via the biosynthesis of steroid(s). We provide here an overview of the biodiversity exhibited by the leaf index of angiosperms. Taken together, we can discuss on the possibility of the control of the shapes and size of plant organs by transgenic approaches with the results from basic researches. For example, transgenic plants that overexpressed a wild-type ROT3 gene had longer leaves than parent plants, without any changes in leaf width. Thus, The genes for leaf growth and development, such as ROT3 gene, should be useful tools for the biodesign of plant organs.

• 한국연초학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.126-132
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• 1992

This experiment was conducted to examine estimates of heterosis, degree of dominance, heritability and phenotypic and genotypic correlation for several mutant characters in flue-cured tobacco variety. Significant heterosis was noted, recording 2.73 and 6.16% for leaf width, -6.86 and -4.72 for leaf shape index, 19.8 and 23.4% for bacterial wilt disease index in Fl an4 F2 generation, respectively, and -1.44 for days to flower in F2 generation. And also leaf width was appeared partial dominance in Fl, and leaf shape index in Fl and F2, Leaf width in F2 was appeared overdominance. Estimated heritabilities in the broad sense ranged from 0.77 to 0.87 for plant and stalk height and days to flower, while those of leaf number, leaf length and width, leaf shape index and bacterial wilt disease index ranged from 0.50 to 0.65. And the heritabilities in the narrow sense were appeared 0.64 and 0.72 for stalk and plant height, respectively, and the others were ranged from 0.32 to 0.47 Positive genotpic correlations appeared among plant height, stalk height, leaf length and leaf width, and between leaf shape index ands day to flower. And negative genotypic correlations appeared between leaf shape index and plant height and stalk height and leaf width, and between bacterial wilt disease index and leaf length.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.30-40
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• 1997

A computer vision system was built to automatically grade the leaf tobacco. A color image processing algorithm was developed to extract shape, color and texture features. An improved back propagation algorithm in an artificial neural network was applied to grade the Burley type dried leaf tobacco. The success rate of grading in three-grade classification(1, 3, 5) was higher than the rate of grading in six-grade classification(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, off), on the average success rate of both the twenty-five local pixel-set and the sixteen local pixel-set. And, the average grading success rate using both shape and color features was higher than the rate using shape, color and texture features. Thus, the texture feature obtained by the spatial gray level dependence method was found not to be important in grading leaf tobacco. Grading according to the shape, color and texture features obtained by machine vision system seemed to be inadequate for replacing manual grading of Burely type dried leaf tobacco.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.61-65
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• 2009

We compared two nondestructive methods for leaf area estimation using leaves of 16 common plant species classified into six types depending on leaf shape. Relatively good linear relationships between actual leaf area (LA) and leaf length (L), width (W), or the product of length and width (LW) were found for ordinary leaves with lanceolate, oblanceolate, linear and sagitttate shapes with entire margins, serrate margins, mixed margins with a entire form and shallow lobes, and ordinary incised margins. LA was better correlated with LW than L or W, with $R^2$ > 0.91. However, for deeply incised lobes, LA estimation using LW showed low correlation coefficient values, indicating low accuracy. On the other hand, a method using photographic paper showed a good correlation between estimates of area based on the mass of a cut-out leaf image on a photographic sheet (PW) and actual leaf area for all types of leaf shape. Thus, the PW method for LA estimation can be applied to all shapes of leaf with high accuracy. The PW method takes a little more time and has a higher cost than leaf estimation methods using LW based on leaf dimensions. These results indicate that researchers should choose their nondestructive LA estimation method according to their research goals.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제2권6호
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• pp.280-298
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• 2008

For efficient content-based image retrieval, diverse visual features such as color, texture, and shape have been widely used. In the case of leaf images, further improvement can be achieved based on the following observations. Most plants have unique shape of leaves that consist of one or more blades. Hence, blade-based matching can be more efficient than whole shape-based matching since the number and shape of blades are very effective to filtering out dissimilar leaves. Guaranteeing rotational invariance is critical for matching accuracy. In this paper, we propose a new shape representation, indexing and matching scheme for leaf image retrieval. For leaf shape representation, we generated a distance curve that is a sequence of distances between the leaf’s center and all the contour points. For matching, we developed a blade-based matching algorithm called rotation invariant - partial dynamic time warping (RI-PDTW). To speed up the matching, we suggest two additional techniques: i) priority queue-based pruning of unnecessary blade sequences for rotational invariance, and ii) lower bound-based pruning of unnecessary partial dynamic time warping (PDTW) calculations. We implemented a prototype system on the GEMINI framework [1][2]. Using experimental results, we showed that our scheme achieves excellent performance compared to competitive schemes.

• 정보처리학회논문지D
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• 제13D권1호
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• pp.29-36
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 식물 잎 모양을 기반으로 이미지를 표현하고 검색하는 식물 잎 이미지 검색 시스템을 보인다. 보다 효과적인 잎의 모양 표현을 위하여, MPP(Minimum Perimeter Polygons) 알고리즘을 개선하였고, 처리시간을 줄이기 위하여, NN(Nearest Neighbor) 검색을 개선한 동적 매칭알고리즘을 제안하였다. 본 시스템은 사용자에게 질의 이미지를 업로드하는 인터페이스를 제공하거나 모양 특징에 기반한 질의를 생성하는 도구를 제공하고 유사도에 따른 이미지를 검색한다. 검색의 편의성을 위해, 웹상에서 잎 모양과 잎차례를 스케치하여 손쉽게 질의할 수 있게 하였다. 실험에서는, 한국에 자생하는 식물 이미지 데이터베이스를 구축하였으며, 질의를 통해 검색된 유사한 이미지의 개수를 기반으로 성능을 평가하였다.

• 식물분류학회지
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.393-409
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• 2003

한국산 골풀아재비속 3종을 대상으로 외부형태학적 형질을 재검토하였다. 줄기와 잎의 단면, 및 수과와 잎의 표피형을 광학현미경과 주사전자현미경(SEM)을 사용하여 비교분석하였다. 줄기, 잎, 잎싸개, 포, 꼬마이삭, 비늘조각, 수과의 길이와 너비, 암술머리의 수, 꼬마이삭, 비늘조각, 수과의 모양 등의 외부형태형질과 줄기와 잎의 횡단모양, 유관속의 수, 수과의 표피 세포의 모양, 잎표피의 규소체의 형태, 기공복합체의 빈도, 부세포의 모양 등의 미세형태형질이 이들 분류군의 유용한 분류형질이었다. 이상의 결과를 토대로 검색표를 작성하였다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제11권10호
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• pp.1001-1009
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• 2002

쥐손이풀속(subgenus Geranium) 35분류군에 대하여 외부형태학적 형질인 생육지, 뿌리, 줄기의 습성과 분지 형태, 엽서, 엽형, 엽연의 모양, 잎열편과 소열편의 형태, 열편의 갯수, 잎의 두께와 엽질 및 탁엽의 형태 통의 영양형질을 조사하고, 이들의 분류형질로서의 타당성 및 진화경향성을 논의하였다. 잎이 3열편으로 갈라지는 특징에 의해 Wilfordii군이, 생육지가 고산지역인 Farreri군이 나누어지며, 일년생인 특징에 의해 Maculatum군이 구분되어진다. 잎의 배열상태가 호생인 G, tripartitum, G. eriostemon, 및 G. erianthum이 나머지 분류군보다. 원시적이고, 열편이 깊게 갈라진 Sibiricum군과 Pseudosibiricurn군이 보다 분화한 분류춘이라고 생각된다. 본 분류군에서는 잎의 엽형과 소열편의 분 지정도 및 엽연의 모양과 열편의 갯수 등은 개체군 사이에서도 변이의 폭이 일정해 종을 구분하는 좋은 식별형질이라고 사료된다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제32권11호
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• pp.1013-1020
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• 2005

본 논문은 모양 특성을 이용한 효과적인 식물 잎 이미지 검색 시스템을 제시한다. 잎 이미지의 더 효과적인 표현을 위해 개선된 MPP 알고리즘을 제안하고, 매칭에 소요되는 시간을 줄이기 위해 기존의 Nearest Neighbor(NN) 검색을 수정한 동적인 매칭 알고리즘을 제시한다. 특히, 더 나은 정확율과 효율성을 위해, 잎 모양과 잎차례를 스케치하여 질의할 수 있도록 하였다. 실험에서는 제안한 알고리즘과 기존의 알고리즘인 CCD(Centroid Contour Distance), Fourier Descriptor. Curvature Scale Space Descriptor (CSSD), Moment Invariants, MPP와 비교하였다. 1000여개의 식물 잎 이미지를 통한 실험결과는 제안한 방법이 기존의 기법보다 더 좋은 성능임을 보였다.