Research & Software | Plant Phenotyping | Agricultural Research Division

We promote innovative research in the area of plant phenotyping across multiple scales (i.e., from the growth chamber and greenhouse to the field), using the LemnaTec and/or Spidercam® phenotyping platforms to advance research in this area and address important research questions related to food security and the environment. The ability to accurately quantify plant phenotypic traits across multiple scales and their responses to the environment is essential in breeding, genetic, and physiological research to better understand genotype by environment interactions.

Collaboration

Faculty work in an interdisciplinary integrated teams (e.g., computational, statistics, biology, breeding, physiology, engineering expertise or any combination thereof) that emphasize the use of the LemnaTec and/or Spidercam® systems; contribute to improving existing, and developing new innovative and robust tools and algorithms for image and phenotypic data acquisition and analysis; and/or studies focusing on translating and scaling research from greenhouse to field or vice versa.

Our Teams

Schnable Lab

Choudhury Lab

Outdoor field with windmill in background

UNL Root and Soil Microbiome Lab

Recent Publications

Gaillard M, Miao C, Schnable JC, Benes B (2020). Voxel carving based 3D reconstruction of sorghum identifies genetic determinants of radiation interception efficiency. Plant Direct doi: 10.1002/pld3.255

Wang R, Qiu Y, Zhou Y, Liang Z, Schnable JC (2020). A high-throughput phenotyping pipeline for image processing and functional growth curve analysis. Plant Phenomics doi: 10.34133/2020/7481687

Miao C, Xu Y, Liu S, Schnable PS, Schnable JC (2020). Increased power and accuracy of causal locus identification in time-series genome-wide association in sorghum. Plant Physiology doi: 10.1104/pp.20.00277

Adams J, Qiu Y, Xu Y, Schnable JC (2020). Plant segmentation by supervised machine learning methods. The Plant Phenome Journal doi: 10.1002/ppj2.20001

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