Data Handling and Data mining is the most challenging task in modern Plant breeding using Plant Phenomic technologies. In Cooperation with Keygene  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.

Biologists often seek better measuring technologies to facilitate their research. To compensate for the invariably limited possibilities, they often developed tedious but nevertheless very successful methods of gaining and increasing knowledge about plants. Thus over long periods of time they produce exemplary results. These steps gradually create a more comprehensive model of how plants actually work and still form a broad basis of the majority of research. Nevertheless, it remains possible to gain deeper insights into “biological variation” and see how the newly discovered principles could be applied to a broad set of plants under differing conditions (light, soil, water, nutrients, plant genes, epigenetic plant history etc.).

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