No-tillage seeding has become an important approach to improve crop productivity,which needs colters of high performance to cut the root-stubble-soil composite.However,the difficulty of maize root-stubbles three-dimen...No-tillage seeding has become an important approach to improve crop productivity,which needs colters of high performance to cut the root-stubble-soil composite.However,the difficulty of maize root-stubbles three-dimensional(3D)modeling hinders finite element(FE)simulation to improve development efficiency of such colters because of maize root system complexity and opaque nature of the soil.Fortunately,the non-destructive 3D geometric model of the maize root-stubble in-situ can be established via X-ray computed tomography(CT)following by a systematic procedure.The whole procedure includes CT scanning of the maize root-stubble-soil composite sample,image reconstruction via filtered back-projection(FBP)with the Hanning filter,segmentation of root-stubble via a variational level set method,and post-processing via morphological operations.The 3D reconstruction model of the maize root-stubble in-situ presents a complete,complex and in-situ geometrical morphology,which cannot be realized via other methods,including the destructive modelling after washing via CT.This study is the first to build a 3D geometric model of a maize root-stubble in-situ via CT,which opens up new possibilities for simulation of root-stubble-soil cutting using FEM,and much other research related to plant root-stubbles.展开更多
基金The work is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51705227)University of Science and Technology Liaoning Talent Project Grants(Grant No.601011507-19)+1 种基金and Special Scientific Research Foundation of University of Science and Technology Liaoning(Grant No.2016YY02)We thank Jiuming Su for his lab assistance,and also thank Zong Zhang and Xinrui Xu for their analysis assistance.
文摘No-tillage seeding has become an important approach to improve crop productivity,which needs colters of high performance to cut the root-stubble-soil composite.However,the difficulty of maize root-stubbles three-dimensional(3D)modeling hinders finite element(FE)simulation to improve development efficiency of such colters because of maize root system complexity and opaque nature of the soil.Fortunately,the non-destructive 3D geometric model of the maize root-stubble in-situ can be established via X-ray computed tomography(CT)following by a systematic procedure.The whole procedure includes CT scanning of the maize root-stubble-soil composite sample,image reconstruction via filtered back-projection(FBP)with the Hanning filter,segmentation of root-stubble via a variational level set method,and post-processing via morphological operations.The 3D reconstruction model of the maize root-stubble in-situ presents a complete,complex and in-situ geometrical morphology,which cannot be realized via other methods,including the destructive modelling after washing via CT.This study is the first to build a 3D geometric model of a maize root-stubble in-situ via CT,which opens up new possibilities for simulation of root-stubble-soil cutting using FEM,and much other research related to plant root-stubbles.
