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ESA The Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America

December 12 - December 15, 2010 San Diego California


ESA The Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America
December 12 - December 15, 2010 San Diego California

SETAC North America 3st Annual Meeting

November 7 - November 11, 2010, Portland, Oregon, USA

SETAC North America 3st Annual Meeting
November 7 - November 11, 2010, Portland, Oregon, USA

ASA-CSSA-SSS International Annual Meetings

October 31 - November 4, 2010, Long Beach, California

ASA-CSSA-SSS   International Annual Meetings
October 31 - November 4, Long Beach, California

High-Throughput Plant Phenotyping – Data Acquisition, Transformation, and Analysis

Bioinformatics Tools and Applications for plant phenotyping

Data Handling and Data mining is the most challenging task in modern Plant breeding using Plant Phenomic technologies. In Cooperation with Keygene (http://www.keygene.com) scientist José Lima-Guerra LemnaTec CEO Matthias Eberius have published a detailed information on how LemnaTec´s Plant Phenotyping Platform can help researchers to understand this challenge.

High throughput phenotyping for measuring drought tolerance

InterDrought III – Shanghai ‐ October 2009

High throughput phenotyping for measuring drought tolerance

Genomics has accelerated gene discovery due to high throughput techniques and robotics. Physiological characterization of plants is still time consuming and labor intensive.

 

  •  Phenotyping is essential for

– functional analysis of specific genes
– forward and reverse genetic analyses
– production of new plants with beneficial characteristics

14th International Biotechnology Symposium and Exhibition

September 14 - September 18, 2010 Rimini Italy

14th International Biotechnology Symposium and Exhibition
September 14 - September 18, 2010 Rimini Italy

High throughput phenotyping and plant modelling

two legs for combined physiological and genetic approaches ?

Phenotyping is the bottleneck in genomics.

  • Sequences of Arabidopsis, Rice, Sorghum, poplar, tomato, maize etc
  • Genotyping capacities for 1000s of genotypes
  • Large collections of RILs, mutants, accessions

Is this the proper way to address the problem ? (defined by a need, not by a biological question) Are "genotyping" and "phenotyping" parallel activities ?

The 'problem' is that we can now measure traits in1000s of plants in a robotised way

We need to refine biological questions avoiding reinventing the wheel

Modelling can help...

Quantifying the three main components of salinity tolerance in cereals

The Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics and the University of Adelaide, PMB1, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia

Salinity stress is a major factor inhibiting cereal yield throughout the world. Tolerance to salinity stress can be considered to contain three main components: Na+ exclusion, tolerance to Na+ in the tissues and osmotic tolerance. To date, most experimental work on salinity tolerance in cereals has focused on Na+ exclusion due in part to its ease of measurement. It has become apparent, however, that Na+ exclusion is not the sole mechanism for salinity tolerance in cereals, and research needs to expand to study osmotic tolerance and tissue tolerance.

Agrobios,un ROBOT per studiare lo sviluppo delle piante tra GENOTIPO e caratteristiche ambientali

Le tecniche di analisi di immagine possono fornire importanti informazioni se applicate direttamente sulle piante. Infatti, l’analisi multispettrale (infrarosso, visibile e ultravioletto) della luce riflessa da chiome, fusto e foglie, è in grado di ricavare informazioni circa lo stato nutrizionale, idrico e patologico di una pianta, nonché sulla sua capacità di intercettazione della luce.

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