An inexpensive robotic gantry to screen and control soil moisture for plant experiments

Controlling water content in soil is a recurrent and labor intensive operation on almost any experiment about plant physiology. Here we describe a robotic gantry to measure and control soil moisture in pots that is modular, inexpensive, easy to build, accurate, precise, and reliable. Machines can be...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Grant Takara, A. Zachary Trimble, Reika Arata, Shane Brown, Hector Jaime Gonzalez, Camilo Mora
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-04-01
Series:HardwareX
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468067221000031