A "Do-It-Yourself" phenotyping system: measuring growth and morphology throughout the diel cycle in rosette shaped plants.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Improvements in high-throughput phenotyping technologies are rapidly expanding the scope and capacity of plant biology studies to measure growth traits. Nevertheless, the costs of commercial phenotyping equipment and infrastructure remain prohibitively expensive for wide-scale uptake, while academic solutions can require significant local expertise. Here we present a low-cost methodology for plant biologists to build their own phenotyping system for quantifying growth rates and phenotypic characteristics of Arabidopsis thaliana rosettes throughout the diel cycle.

Results

We constructed an image capture system consisting of a near infra-red (NIR, 940 nm) LED panel with a mounted Raspberry Pi NoIR camera and developed a MatLab-based software module (iDIEL Pla

SUBMITTER: Dobrescu A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5678596 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature