Open AccessPlant Phenotyping: Past, Present, and Future
Author(s) -
Roland Pieruschka,
Uli Schurr
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
plant phenomics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2097-0374
pISSN - 2643-6515
DOI - 10.34133/2019/7507131
Subject(s) - standardization , multidisciplinary approach , plant disease , resource (disambiguation) , limiting , computer science , sketch , field (mathematics) , risk analysis (engineering) , microbiology and biotechnology , data science , biology , engineering , business , mechanical engineering , computer network , social science , mathematics , algorithm , sociology , pure mathematics , operating system
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 changing environment is essential for the advancement of basic plant science and its translation into application including breeding and crop management. The plant research community was thus confronted with the need to accurately measure diverse traits of an increasingly large number of plants to help plants to adapt to resource-limiting environment and low-input agriculture. In this overview, we outline the development of plant phenotyping as a multidisciplinary field. We sketch the technological advancement that laid the foundation for the development of phenotyping centers and evaluate the upcoming challenges for further advancement of plant phenotyping specifically with respect to standardization of data acquisition and reusability. Finally, we describe the development of the plant phenotyping community as an essential step to integrate the community and effectively use the emerging synergies.