Crop phenomics and high-throughput phenotyping: past decades, current challenges, and future perspectives

W Yang, H Feng, X Zhang, J Zhang, JH Doonan… - Molecular plant, 2020 - cell.com
Since whole-genome sequencing of many crops has been achieved, crop functional
genomics studies have stepped into the big-data and high-throughput era. However …

[HTML][HTML] Plant phenomics, from sensors to knowledge

F Tardieu, L Cabrera-Bosquet, T Pridmore, M Bennett - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Major improvements in crop yield are needed to keep pace with population growth and
climate change. While plant breeding efforts have greatly benefited from advances in …

[HTML][HTML] Uncovering the hidden half of plants using new advances in root phenotyping

JA Atkinson, MP Pound, MJ Bennett… - Current opinion in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•A 'second green revolution'using crops with improved below-ground traits is
needed.•Phenotyping plant roots poses practical and data challenges.•Technologies for 2D …

A review of imaging techniques for plant phenotyping

L Li, Q Zhang, D Huang - Sensors, 2014 - mdpi.com
Given the rapid development of plant genomic technologies, a lack of access to plant
phenotyping capabilities limits our ability to dissect the genetics of quantitative traits …

[HTML][HTML] Plant phenotyping: past, present, and future

R Pieruschka, U Schurr - Plant Phenomics, 2019 - spj.science.org
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 …

Crop improvement from phenotyping roots: highlights reveal expanding opportunities

SR Tracy, KA Nagel, JA Postma, H Fassbender… - Trends in plant …, 2020 - cell.com
Root systems determine the water and nutrients for photosynthesis and harvested products,
underpinning agricultural productivity. We highlight 11 programs that integrated root traits …

Biomass allocation to leaves, stems and roots: meta‐analyses of interspecific variation and environmental control

H Poorter, KJ Niklas, PB Reich, J Oleksyn… - New …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We quantified the biomass allocation patterns to leaves, stems and roots in vegetative
plants, and how this is influenced by the growth environment, plant size, evolutionary history …

Plant phenotyping: from bean weighing to image analysis

A Walter, F Liebisch, A Hund - Plant methods, 2015 - Springer
Plant phenotyping refers to a quantitative description of the plant's anatomical,
ontogenetical, physiological and biochemical properties. Today, rapid developments are …

Future scenarios for plant phenotyping

F Fiorani, U Schurr - Annual review of plant biology, 2013 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Pot size matters: a meta-analysis of the effects of rooting volume on plant growth

H Poorter, J Bühler, D van Dusschoten… - Functional Plant …, 2012 - CSIRO Publishing
The majority of experiments in plant biology use plants grown in some kind of container or
pot. We conducted a meta-analysis on 65 studies that analysed the effect of pot size on …