Improving the photosynthetic efficiency of crop plants has the potential to sustainably increase yields up to three-fold. However, conventional breeding for increased photosynthetic efficiency is tedious and slow due to a lack of reliable and high-throughput methods to assess crop photosynthetic efficiency in the field. In our most recent paper, we present a method to change this by mounting a light-induced fluorescence transient (LIFT) photosynthesis sensor onto an autonomous field robot. Check it out:
https://dx.doi.org/10.3791/69530
#photosynthesis #LIFT #phenotyping #robot #agriculturalrobotics 🔬 🌱
High-throughput plant phenotyping
State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)
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#drones #phenomics #phenotyping #plantbiology #plantbreeding #plantgenetics #plantphysiology #satellite #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
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