Advancing multi-scale plant phenotyping for precision agriculture and sustainable crop production

Xuping FENG; Zhenhai LI; Kun WANG

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Editorial | Updated：2026-05-15

Advancing multi-scale plant phenotyping for precision agriculture and sustainable crop production
Advancing multi-scale plant phenotyping for precision agriculture and sustainable crop production
Advancing multi-scale plant phenotyping for precision agriculture and sustainable crop production
Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B Vol. 27, Issue 5, Pages: 431-436(2026)
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1.College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
2.College of Geodesy and Geomatics, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China
3.Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
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Received：14 April 2024，

Revised：2025-04-20，

Published：15 May 2026
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Xuping FENG, Zhenhai LI, Kun WANG. Advancing multi-scale plant phenotyping for precision agriculture and sustainable crop production[J]. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B, 2026, 27(5): 431-436.
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Xuping FENG, Zhenhai LI, Kun WANG. Advancing multi-scale plant phenotyping for precision agriculture and sustainable crop production[J]. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B, 2026, 27(5): 431-436. DOI： 10.1631/jzus.B2610001.

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