Future Scenarios for Plant Phenotyping

Fabio Fiorani, Ulrich Schurr
2013 Annual Review of Plant Biology  
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 of plants and plant parameters. The goal is to provide quantitative analyses of plant structure and function relevant for traits that help plants better adapt to lowinput agriculture and resource-limited environments. We provide an overview of the inherently multidisciplinary research in plant phenotyping, focusing
more » ... traits that will assist in selecting genotypes with increased resource use efficiency. We highlight opportunities and challenges for integrating noninvasive or minimally invasive technologies into screening protocols to characterize plant responses to environmental challenges for both controlled and field experimentation. Although technology evolves rapidly, parallel efforts are still required because large-scale phenotyping demands accurate reporting of at least a minimum set of information concerning experimental protocols, data management schemas, and integration with modeling. The journey toward systematic plant phenotyping has only just begun. 267 Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 2013.64:267-291. Downloaded from www.annualreviews.org by Monsanto Company on 09/15/13. For personal use only.
doi:10.1146/annurev-arplant-050312-120137 pmid:23451789 fatcat:ex3anila4vbzvb2ck5hzv4skv4