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National Plant Phenomics Centre

Reference	BBS/E/W/10961A01
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor John Doonan
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Dr Anyela Valentina Camargo Rodriguez, Dr Amanda Clare, Professor John Draper, Dr Catherine Howarth, Professor Wayne Powell, Dr Martin Swain, Professor Reyer Zwiggelaar
Institution	Aberystwyth University
Department	IBERS
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	1,254,288
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/04/2012
End date	31/03/2017
Duration	59 months

Abstract

This project aims to offer UK plant scientists access to an automated imaging platform, the National Plant Phenomics Centre, that uses robotics to deliver growing plants to a series of high resolution imaging stations for non-destructive sequential recording of growth, physiological and developmental parameters. In conjunction with local expertise in biological image analyses provided by the Vision, Graphics and Visualisation Group in the AU Department of Computer Science the raw data and associated experimental metadata will be processed to extract trait data in a non-subjective highly quantitative manner that can then be related to the underlying genomic makeup of the individuals. The NPPC will utilise international data standards, database architectures and query interfaces appropriate for handling processed plant phenomics data. The raw data will also be stored and will therefore be available for future analysis either by the investigator or, after publication, by other interested scientists.

Summary

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Committee	Not funded via Committee
Research Topics	Crop Science, Plant Science, Technology and Methods Development
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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