A cost-effective and customizable automated irrigation system for precise high-throughput phenotyping in drought stress studies.

The development of high-yielding crops with drought tolerance is necessary to increase food, feed, fiber and fuel production. Methods that create similar environmental conditions for a large number of genotypes are essential to investigate plant responses to drought in gene discovery studies. Modern...

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Main Authors: Diego Ortiz, Alexander G Litvin, Maria G Salas Fernandez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5988304?pdf=render