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What you will cover in the course
What you will cover in the course.
What you will cover in the course
Week 1:
- What is plant phenotyping
- Background – the history and evolution of plant phenotyping technologies
- Types of data
- Categorising data – direct measurements vs indirect measurements
Week 2:
- Lab and controlled environment phenotyping
- Different types of controlled environments
- Tours of some of our facilities
- 2D seedling root phenotyping
- Robotic Arabidopsis plate imaging
- Image analysis of root systems using RootNav
- The Hounsfield facility for X-ray CT imaging
Week 3:
- Using high throughput phenotyping in field and its relevance to plant breeding
- Importance of experimental design and quality data collection
- Big data generation and data handling
- Challenges of phenotyping in field
Week 4:
- Phenotyping technologies for all environments
- Phenotyping for photosynthetic traits using gas exchange
- Chlorophyll fluorescence imaging
- Laser ablation tomography
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