Plant phenomics is a high-throughput path-breaking area that meets all the requirements for
the collection of accurate, rapid and multi-faceted phenotypic data. Plant phenomics is an …

Global agriculture is facing major challenges to ensure global food security, such as the
need to breed high-yielding crops adapted to future climates and the identification of …

It has been estimated that agricultural production must be doubled by 2050 in order to meet
the predicted demand of growing world population. Achieving this goal poses a serious …

Agricultural scientists face the dual challenge of breeding input-responsive, widely
adoptable and climate-resilient varieties of crop plants and developing such varieties at a …

To exploit the wealth of gene sequence information provided by the 'genomics revolution,
and mine agricultural germplasm for genetic diversity, high resolution, high throughput …

Global agricultural production has to double by 2050 to meet the demands of an increasing
21 population and the challenges of a changing climate. Plant phenomics (the …

This book represents a pioneer initiative to describe the new technologies available for next-
generation phenotyping and applied to plant breeding. Over the last several years plant …

A major challenge for food production in the coming decades is to meet the food demands of
a growing population (Beddington, 2010). The difficulty of expanding agricultural land, along …

With the rapid development of genetic analysis techniques and crop population size,
phenotyping has become the bottleneck restricting crop breeding. Breaking through this …

Because of the variety of genetic components, plants are affected by complex genetic-
environment-management interactions that drive phenotypic plasticity. Reliable, automatic …