High throughput phenotyping to accelerate crop breeding and monitoring of diseases in the field

• Published in: Current opinion in plant biology Vol. 38; pp. 184 - 192
• Main Authors: Shakoor, Nadia, Lee, Scott, Mockler, Todd C
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.08.2017; Elsevier
• Subjects: 09 BIOMASS FUELS; artificial intelligence; Breeding; computer vision; crop yield; Crops, Agricultural - physiology; cultivars; data collection; disease resistance; geographic information systems; image analysis; information management; infrastructure; Machine Learning; monitoring; phenotype; plant breeding; quantitative traits; screening

•Phenotyping technology can increase the throughput of plant screening in the field.•Early season detection of plant diseases is key to reducing crop yield losses.•Disease diagnosis relies on symptom recognition through observations and ratings.•Remote sensing methods can identify, quantify and moni...