Multi-sensor high-throughput phenotyping system Acronym: PhänoSys

Project description
Climate change threatens the forest as a habitat and economic factor, including its protective function for the climate and soil. Agriculture must also adapt to climate change in order to ensure the long-term food supply for the population. A crucial component in ensuring the future of forestry and agriculture, both locally in Lower Saxony and worldwide, is plant breeding, which has gained enormous momentum in the last decade due to huge advances in genome research. Phenotyping - the detailed quantitative characterization of morphological and physiological parameters - has scarcely been able to keep up with this rapid development in genome research and threatens to become a bottleneck for plant breeding.
The goal of the proposed measure is the acquisition and commissioning of a multi-sensor high-throughput phenotyping system for cutting-edge research to support and expand existing fields of research.
The aim of the research planned afterwards, based on the infrastructure applied for, is to gain valuable insights into the genetic control of plant traits such as drought stress tolerance and pathogen resistance through digital plant phenotyping in combination with gene expression studies and genome-wide association analyses, and to make these findings available for sustainable forestry and agriculture as well as climate protection.


Applicant
Georg-August University Göttingen
Department Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding
Büsgenweg 2
37077 Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Oliver Gailing