Optimizing experimental procedures for quantitative evaluation of crop plant performance in high throughput phenotyping systems.

ABSTRACT: Detailed and standardized protocols for plant cultivation in environmentally controlled conditions are an essential prerequisite to conduct reproducible experiments with precisely defined treatments. Setting up appropriate and well defined experimental procedures is thus crucial for the generation of solid evidence and indispensable for successful plant research. Non-invasive and high throughput (HT) phenotyping technologies offer the opportunity to monitor and quantify performance dynamics of several hundreds of plants at a time. Compared to small scale plant cultivations, HT systems have much higher demands, from a conceptual and a logistic point of view, on experimental design, as well as the actual plant cultivation conditions, and the image analysis and statistical methods for data ev

SUBMITTER: Junker A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4299434 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature