54The increase in population is leading to an unprecedented demand on agriculture and
natural resources. To meet human and nature needs, food production must drastically …

A plant develops the dynamic phenotypes from the interaction of the plant with the
environment. Understanding these processes that span plant's lifetime in a permanently …

Plant phenotyping enables noninvasive quantification of plant structure and function and
interactions with environments. High-capacity phenotyping reaches hitherto inaccessible …

With increasing demand to support and accelerate progress in breeding for novel traits, the
plant research community faces the need to accurately measure increasingly large numbers …

Improvements in agronomical practices and crop breeding are paramount responses to the
present and future challenges imposed by water stress and heat (Lobell et al. 2011a, b; …

Every plant science experiment starts with a design that will be adapted to answer a specific
biological question and involves evaluation of phenotypic traits. Plant phenotyping has …

Automated phenotyping technologies are capable of providing continuous and precise
measurements of traits that are key to today's crop research, breeding and agronomic …

Plant traits are informative for ecosystem functions and processes and help to derive general
rules and predictions about responses to environmental gradients, global change and …

Crop yield must urgently be sustainably increased to accommodate a rising global
population and anticipated climate change in the coming decades, in the face of plant …

One of the current challenges in plant biology is the development of quantitative
phenotyping approaches to link the genotype and the environment to plant structural …