Journal Article

FZJ-2019-06102

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png Crop Improvement from Phenotyping Roots: Highlights Reveal Expanding Opportunities

Tracy, S. R. ; Nagel, K. A.FZJ* ; Postma, J. A.FZJ* ; Fassbender, H.FZJ* ; Wasson, A. ; Watt, M. (Corresponding author)FZJ*

2020
Elsevier Science Amsterdam [u.a.]

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Please use a persistent id in citations: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/23764  doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2019.10.015

Abstract: Root systems determine the water and nutrients for photosynthesis and harvested products, underpinning agricultural productivity. We highlight 11 programs that integrated root traits into germplasm for breeding, relying on phenotyping. Progress was successful but slow. Today’s phenotyping technologies will speed up root trait improvement. They combine multiple new alleles in germplasm for target environments, in parallel. Roots and shoots are detected simultaneously and nondestructively, seed to seed measures are automated, and field and laboratory technologies are increasingly linked. Available simulation models can aid all phenotyping decisions. This century will see a shift from single root traits to rhizosphere selections that can be managed dynamically on farms and a shift to phenotype-based improvement to accommodate the dynamic complexity of whole crop systems.

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Pflanzenwissenschaften (IBG-2)

Research Program(s):

1. 582 - Plant Science (POF3-582) (POF3-582)

Appears in the scientific report 2020

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