PLANT SEED COMPUTER MORPHOMETRY TO DETERMINE DARWINIAN VARIATION FITNESS

摘要

The present invention relates to a method for the determination of the ecological health of a plant by determining the plant seed diversity.

主权项

1. A method of assessing the ecological health of a specific taxon of a plant comprising:
a) accumulating a large sample of seeds of the specific taxon of the plant; b) using a digital camera operatively connected to a computer creating visual morphological measurements of the sample of seeds and creating a morphometric database of the measurements on the computer; c) the computer calculating the seed diversity of the sample from the database: and d) Determining the ecological health of the specific taxon of the plant as being directly related to the diversity of the seeds.