Research
Giving wheat breeders hyper vision
Phys.org ·
The Brief
- CSIRO researchers are using hyperspectral imaging to assess wheat plants beyond what the human eye can see.
- The article reports that a plant can look green and healthy while losing too much water, which visual inspection may miss.
- The technique is aimed at helping wheat breeders select plants more effectively.
Why it matters
Faster, more objective plant phenotyping could speed up development of wheat varieties better suited to water stress, which matters for food security and crop research.
Who’s affected
- plant scientists and wheat breeders
- agricultural researchers
- #wheat
- #hyperspectral imaging
- #plant phenotyping
- #crop breeding
- #drought
Aswin Singaram Natarajan rolls a stem of wheat in his hands. It looks perfectly healthy, but the senior experimental scientist at CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, knows his eyes can deceive him. A plant could look green and vital and still be losing—losing too much…
Timeline
Biology News published the article on CSIRO's wheat imaging work
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Giving wheat breeders hyper vision