Researchers from the Italian Research Centre for Vegetable and Ornamental Crops published a review that points out the high importance of phenotyping at various scales for improving future breeding procedures. In particular, when using material from gene banks for horticultural crop breeding, precise phenotypic information is essential.

Nunzio D’Agostino and Pasquale Tripodi (2017): NGS-Based Genotyping, High-Throughput Phenotyping and Genome-Wide Association Studies Laid the Foundations for Next-Generation Breeding in Horticultural Crops. In: Diversity 9 (3), S. 38. DOI: 10.3390/d9030038.