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

•  High throughput is essential for phenotyping

– in different growth conditions (e.g. watering regimes)
– of many different lines

• mutant populations
• mapping populations
• breeding populations
• germplasm collections

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