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Phenotyping study uses imaging technology
A University of Wisconsin team is using computer image technology to measure plant characteristics. Botanist Edgar Spaulding tells Brownfield they are using high throughput imaging and computers for phenotyping or studying how a plant’s genes are expressed in the environment. “We can change the genotype by breeding or manipulation, and then we want to understand how when you do that, how does the phenotype change, it’s growth rate, it’s stature, it’s shape and size and chemical attributes, so that’s what unfolds out of the genotype.”
Spaulding says the imaging technology allows them to measure a large number of samples quickly and more accurately than measuring by hand.
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