Mia Ruppel, Sven K Nelson, Grace Sidberry, Madison Mitchell, Daniel Kick, Shawn K Thomas, Katherine E Guill, Melvin J Oliver, Jacob D Washburn
PREMISE: Higher temperatures across the globe are causing an increase in the frequency and severity of droughts. In agricultural crops, this results in reduced yields, financial losses, and increased food costs at the supermarket. Root growth maintenance in drying soils plays a major role in a plant's ability to survive and perform under drought, but phenotyping root growth is extremely difficult due to roots being under the soil. METHODS AND RESULTS: RootBot is an automated high-throughput phenotyping robot that eliminates many of the difficulties and reduces the time required for performing drought-stress studies on primary roots...
2023: Applications in Plant Sciences