Data for manuscript on objective phenotyping of alfalfa roots

These are images for the manuscript, "Objective phenotyping of root system architecture using image augmentation and machine learning in alfalfa." Alfalfa_root_ML_segmented.zip contains the root images segmented from the background using RootPainter and that were used as input for RhizoVision Explorer. Alfalfa_root_ML_color_photographs.zip contains the original color photographs of the roots, except that the circular scale and ID tag have been cropped out and filled with black to aid image analysis.