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High-throughput estimation of crop traits: A review of ground and aerial phenotyping platforms
Crop yields need to be improved in a sustainable manner
to meet the expected worldwide increase in population
over the coming decades as well as the effects of anticipated
climate change. Recently, genomics-assisted breeding has
become a popular approach to food security; in this regard,
the crop breeding community must better link the relationships
between the phenotype and the genotype. While
high-throughput genotyping is feasible at a low cost, highthroughput
crop phenotyping methods and data analytical
capacities need to be improved.
High-throughput phenotyping offers a powerful way to
assess particular phenotypes in large-scale experiments,
using high-tech sensors, advanced robotics, and imageprocessing
systems to monitor and quantify plants in
breeding nurseries and field experiments at multiple scales.
In addition, new bioinformatics platforms are able to embrace
large-scale, multidimensional phenotypic datasets.
Through the combined analysis of phenotyping and genotyping
data, environmental responses and gene functions
can now be dissected at unprecedented resolution. This will aid in finding solutions to currently limited and incremental
improvements in crop yields