First mobile plant phenotyping system with flash-induced chlorophyll fluorescence

Texas Tech opens plant phenotype machine

A cutting-edge, agricultural-oriented research team from Texas Tech University’s Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources June 5 celebrated the installation of a new phenotyping machine, one of only three of its kind in the world and the only one custom-built for the Department of Plant & Soil Science. Housed in the department’s Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance, the new equipment is designed to capture hi…

First mobile plant phenotyping system with flash-induced chlorophyll fluorescence

"This is a state-of-the-art mobile platform of its kind," says Tuomo Laine, Specialist and Doctoral Researcher at Luke. "There are similar integrated phenotyping platforms elsewhere, but this one moves (with us) into production environments." Tuomo and his colleagues, Alexey Shapiguzov, Satu Engström,…