A Straightforward High-Throughput Aboveground Phenotyping Platform for Small- to Medium-Sized Plants

Denise Caldwell; Anjali S Iyer-Pascuzzi

doi:10.1007/978-1-0716-2537-8_5

A Straightforward High-Throughput Aboveground Phenotyping Platform for Small- to Medium-Sized Plants

Methods Mol Biol. 2022:2539:37-48. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2537-8_5.

Authors

Denise Caldwell¹, Anjali S Iyer-Pascuzzi²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Botany and Plant Pathology and Center for Plant Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
² Department of Botany and Plant Pathology and Center for Plant Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. asi2@purdue.edu.

PMID: 35895194
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2537-8_5

Abstract

High-throughput phenotyping platforms for growth chamber and greenhouse-grown plants enable nondestructive, automated measurements of plant traits including shape, aboveground architecture, length, and biomass over time. However, to establish these platforms, many of these methods require expensive equipment or phenotyping expertise. Here we present a relatively inexpensive and simple phenotyping method for imaging hundreds of small- to medium-sized growth chamber or greenhouse-grown plants with a digital camera. Using this method, we image hundreds of tomato plants in 1 day.

Keywords: Aboveground; Digital camera; Phenotyping; RGB images.

MeSH terms

Biomass
Phenotype
Plants*
Solanum lycopersicum*