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] 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 …

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 …

Hydrogels as the plant culture substrates: A review

L Ma, C Chai, W Wu, P Qi, X Liu, J Hao - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2023 - Elsevier
A class of hydrophilic polymers known as “hydrogels” have extensive water content and
three-dimensional crosslinked networks. Since the old period, they have been utilized as …

Boosting the signal-to-noise of low-field MRI with deep learning image reconstruction

N Koonjoo, B Zhu, GC Bagnall, D Bhutto, MS Rosen - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in inexpensive low magnetic field (< 0.3 T)
MRI systems mainly due to advances in magnet, coil and gradient set designs. Most of these …

[HTML][HTML] Proximal and remote sensing in plant phenomics: 20 years of progress, challenges, and perspectives

H Tao, S Xu, Y Tian, Z Li, Y Ge, J Zhang, Y Wang… - Plant …, 2022 - cell.com
Plant phenomics (PP) has been recognized as a bottleneck in studying the interactions of
genomics and environment on plants, limiting the progress of smart breeding and precise …

Advances in optical phenotyping of cereal crops

D Sun, K Robbins, N Morales, Q Shu, H Cen - Trends in plant science, 2022 - cell.com
Optical sensors and sensing-based phenotyping techniques have become mainstream
approaches in high-throughput phenotyping for improving trait selection and genetic gains …

Current opinion and perspectives on the methods for tracking and monitoring plant growth‒promoting bacteria

JI Rilling, JJ Acuña, P Nannipieri, F Cassan… - Soil Biology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Since the 1980s, plant growth‒promoting bacteria (PGPB) have been studied as a
sustainable alternative to the use of chemical fertilizers to increase crop yields, and effective …

Capturing crop adaptation to abiotic stress using image-based technologies

N Al-Tamimi, P Langan, V Bernád, J Walsh… - Open …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Farmers and breeders aim to improve crop responses to abiotic stresses and secure yield
under adverse environmental conditions. To achieve this goal and select the most resilient …

The structural basis of hyperpromiscuity in a core combinatorial network of type II toxin–antitoxin and related phage defense systems

K Ernits, CK Saha, T Brodiazhenko… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are a large group of small genetic modules found in
prokaryotes and their mobile genetic elements. Type II TAs are encoded as bicistronic (two …