Field Phenotyping for the Future
Annual Plant Reviews Online 2018 Volume 1
Issue 3, November 2018
Jonathan A. Atkinson,
Robert J. Jackson,
Alison R. Bentley,
Eric Ober,
Darren M. Wells,
Jonathan A. Atkinson
School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, UK
These authors contributed equally.Search for more papers by this authorRobert J. Jackson
The John Bingham Laboratory, NIAB, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, UK
These authors contributed equally.Search for more papers by this authorAlison R. Bentley
The John Bingham Laboratory, NIAB, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, UK
Search for more papers by this authorEric Ober
The John Bingham Laboratory, NIAB, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, UK
Search for more papers by this authorDarren M. Wells
School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, UK
Search for more papers by this authorJonathan A. Atkinson,
Robert J. Jackson,
Alison R. Bentley,
Eric Ober,
Darren M. Wells,
Jonathan A. Atkinson
School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, UK
These authors contributed equally.Search for more papers by this authorRobert J. Jackson
The John Bingham Laboratory, NIAB, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, UK
These authors contributed equally.Search for more papers by this authorAlison R. Bentley
The John Bingham Laboratory, NIAB, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, UK
Search for more papers by this authorEric Ober
The John Bingham Laboratory, NIAB, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, UK
Search for more papers by this authorDarren M. Wells
School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, UK
Search for more papers by this authorAbstract
Global agricultural production has to double by 2050 to meet the demands of an increasing population and the challenges of a changing climate. Plant phenomics (the characterisation of the full set of phenotypes of a given species) has been proposed as a solution to relieve the ‘phenotyping bottleneck’ between functional genomics and plant breeding studies. In this article, we survey current approaches and describe recent technological and methodological advances for phenotyping under field conditions and discuss the prospects for these emerging technologies in addressing the challenges of future plant research.
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