Statistics, Department of
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
2-27-2024
Citation
Kaiser E, Von Gillhaussen P, Clarke J and Schurr U (2024) Editorial: IPPS 2022 - plant phenotyping for a sustainable future. Front. Plant Sci. 15:1383766. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1383766
Abstract
Plants are a venue for addressing the challenges facing humanity. The need for a reliable supply of food, feed, materials, chemicals and energy as well as ways to manage agroecology and climate change are among the challenges that we can address through the sustainable use of plants and plant ecosystems. The research community needs to integrate plant systems approaches, from molecular to organismal to applications in the field and ecosystems, to increase productivity sustainably while using fewer land, water, and nutrient resources. In the past two decades, plant phenotyping research has developed a highly valuable portfolio of technologies, processes and infrastructures to address these questions (Pieruschka and Schurr, 2019). In the past, the creation of datasets was limited by low throughput sensing and image analysis (Tsaftaris et al., 2016). However, through the development of digital image analysis the previous phenotyping “bottleneck” has shifted towards a capacity problem, making it difficult to interpret vast datasets (especially in the face of plant x environment interactions), leading to an “interpretation bottleneck” (Smith et al., 2021). Innovative plant phenotyping approaches that reveal and target relevant traits are thus still needed to identify and quantify key traits and processes and to understand the dynamic interactions between genetics, molecular and biochemical processes, and the physiological responses to changes in the environment that lead to the development of a phenotype.
Comments
Open access.