EPSO Workshop on Plant Phenotyping
November 02-03, 2009

Phenotyping links genomics with the performance of plants in the interaction with environmental cues. Recent developments concentrated on plant phenomics as an emerging field that develops and provides tools such as

• technologies to characterize plant performance and the dynamics of plant structures and functions,
• high thoughput techniques allowing to subject plants to desired environmental scenarios, including
• novel field techniques based on proxi-identification.

This interdisciplinary workshop explored options to develop a network for medium and high throughput screening of model plants and plants of agricultural significance to understand gene function, environment response and develop new agricultural traits especially in the field of growth, resource use efficiency, transport and composition. In this workshop we brought together researchers with significant technical expertise to develop efficient phenotyping methods and groups possessing large genomic material for exemplary screening. Interaction between academia and industry, lab-based and field-oriented research and technology- and question-driven scientists was given a significant emphasis.

EPSO Workshop 2009: White Paper on Plant Phenotyping
White Paper on Plant Phenotyping Plant phenotyping has become a bottleneck for progress in basic plant science and plant breeding Europe has world-leading groups in plant phenotyping Phenotyping requires interdisciplinary approaches Phenotyping needs to integrate activities in sensorics, environmental simulation, mechanistic, high-throughput and field-based platforms	Francois Tardieu Ulrich Schurr	» download 50 kB

Phenotyping: Research Infrastructures of national and international dimensions
Setting the Scene for the EPSO Workshop Plant Phenotyping	Karin Metzlaff	» download 300 kB
Research Infrastructures in FP7 and beyond - options for a European dimension of plant phenotyping	Sébastien Crepieux	» download 800 kB
Concepts of plant phenotyping
Phenotyping of plants: Quantitative Analysis of Structure and Function - Technologies and Concepts	Ulrich Schurr	» download 3.7 MB
High throughput phenotyping and plant modelling: two legs for combined physiological and genetic approaches?	Francois Tardieu	» download 2.5 MB
Novel technologies for plant phenotyping
Growth Phenotyping of leaves and roots from the lab to field	Achim Walter	» download 11.8 MB
Fast and non-invasive phenotyping of plant health/stress status using a LED induced chlorophyll fluorescence transient imager	Henk Jalink	» download 2.0 MB
Combination of 4D wheat architecture models and close range measurements for high throughput in field phenotyping: current status and prospects	Fred Baret	» download 1.8 MB
Quantitative analyses of cell division in plants	Gerrit Beemster	» download 3,5 MB
Model-assisted phenotyping of root system construction and function	Xavier Draye	» download 4.1 MB
Automatic phenotyping of plant root systems	Joshua Weitz	» download 2.4 MB
Non-invasive root imaging with MRI and PET - from details to low-throughput	Siegfried Jahnke	» download 3.0 MB
Fast and cheap metabolic phenotyping using microplate technology	Yves Gibon	» download 7.1 MB
High-throughput infrastructures and the International Plant Phenotyping Initiative (IPPI)
CropDesign: Traitmill approaches from an industry perspective	Pierre Lejeune	» download 2.6 MB
Phenopsis and Phenodyn: phenotyping platforms to dissect the genetic variability of growth in response to environmental changes in Arabidopsis and cereals	Claude Welcker	» download 3.8 MB
APPF: The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility	Bob Furbank	» download 1.6 MB
Plant Phenotyping at IPK Gatersleben: Current applications and setup of infrastructure	Thomas Altmann	» download 13.6 MB
Integration of plant phenotyping with (bio-)informatics
Plant metaphenomics: Building a unified framework for interpreting plant growth responses to diverse environmental variables	Hendrik Poorter	» download 340 kB
Phenotyping informatics: Again at the end of the pipeline	Harold Verstegen	» download 2.8 MB
Requirements of phenotyping from basic and applied sciences
The 1001 Arabidopsis genomes project	Jun Cao	» download 3.2 MB
Image acquisition and analysis for high-throughput phenotyping of Arabidopsis thaliana	Tony Pridmore	» download 3.2 MB
Phenotyping for horticulture	Eva Rosenqvist	» download 1.5 MB
Phenotyping from a breeder's perspective	Richard Richards	» download 1.3 MB