High throughput plant phenotyping in agriculture

Agriculture faces a tough challenge in ensuring food security due to global climate change and declining soil fertility and natural resources such as water. Recent natural calamities due to untimely heavy rainfall or drought have indicated climate change. There is an urgent need for agriculture scie...

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Published in:Current science (Bangalore) 2013-08, Vol.105 (4), p.434-435
Main Authors: Ramya, K. T., Fiyaz, R. Abdul, Ajay, B. C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Climate change
CORRESPONDENCE
Crop science
Crops
Emerging technology
Energy crops
Phenotypes
Phenotypic traits
Plant genetics
Plants
Sustainable agriculture
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Summary:Agriculture faces a tough challenge in ensuring food security due to global climate change and declining soil fertility and natural resources such as water. Recent natural calamities due to untimely heavy rainfall or drought have indicated climate change. There is an urgent need for agriculture scientists to get ready for the challenges and offer solutions for sustenance of agriculture sector by means of adaption to global climate change. Agriculture Scientists have been continuously striving to characterize the phenotype of individual plant or species. This phenotype was better understood from the view-point of genetics after the rediscovery of Mendel's laws of heredity in 1900. Today, phenotype is understood as an external appearance of gene and environmental interaction. In recent days, the term 'phenome' is often used. It is the study of plant growth, performance and composition super(1). Characterizing the phenome of an individual or species in a precise way is important to utilize its maximum potential.
ISSN:0011-3891