RootBot: High-throughput root stress phenotyping robot.

ABSTRACT:

Premise

Higher temperatures across the globe are causing an increase in the frequency and severity of droughts. In agricultural crops, this results in reduced yields, financial losses, and increased food costs at the supermarket. Root growth maintenance in drying soils plays a major role in a plant's ability to survive and perform under drought, but phenotyping root growth is extremely difficult due to roots being under the soil.

Methods and results

RootBot is an automated high-throughput phenotyping robot that eliminates many of the difficulties and reduces the time required for performing drought-stress studies on primary roots. RootBot simulates root growth conditions using transparent plates to create a gap that is filled with soil and polyethylene glycol (PEG) to simula

SUBMITTER: Ruppel M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10719875 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature