Plant Phenotyping Laboratory
Laboratory of the Department of Plant Nutrition and The Centre of Excellence for Biodiversity and Molecular Plant Breeding
Laboratory equipment combines gas exchange analysis with different plant imaging and scanning techniques and simultaneous image analysis, enabling quantification of multiple morphological and physiological plant traits. Our main aim is to assess the different phenotyping techniques and protocols to serve as rapid, reliable plant physiological status indicators and select meaningful plant traits related to specific production conditions or environmental constraints.
Equipment list:
- Two fully automated growth chambers, controllable in temperature, air humidity, photoperiod, light intensity
- Chlorophyll fluorescence imaging (CropReporter, PhenoVation, Wageningen, The Netherlands)
- Multispectral imaging (CropReporter, Wageningen, The Netherlands)
- 3D multispectral scanning (PlantEye, Phenospex, Heerlen, The Netherlands)
- Gas exchange analysis (Li-6800, LI-COR, Lincoln, NE, USA)
- List of traits
- Digital biomass
- Plant height
- Plant height max
- 3D leaf area
- Projected leaf area
- Leaf inclination
- Leaf area index
- Leaf Angle
- Light penetration depth
- RGB Color
- NIR Color
- Greenness
- Chlorophyll index
- Anthocyanin index
- Normalized Digital Vegetation Index (NDVI)
- Normalized Pigments Chlorophyll ratio index (NPCI)
- Plant Senescence Reflectance Index (PSRI)
- Fv/Fm=ϕPo=(Fm-F0)/Fm (maximum quantum yield of PSII photochemistry)
- NPQ – non-photochemical quenching
- ϕRo=(Fm-FI)/Fm (quantum yield of reduction of end acceptors of PSI)
- ϕPSII=ϕPt=Fq’/Fm’=(Fm’-Fs’)/Fm’ (effective quantum yield of PSII photochemistry)
- ETR (Electron Transport Rate)
- Net photosynthetic rate
- Transpiration rate
- Stomatal conductance, etc
Head of the laboratory: Assist. Prof. Boris Lazarević, PhD