Therese LaRue and colleagues built an automated imaging system that photographs soil-grown, luminescent root systems in rhizotrons over time. Applying it to a panel of natural Arabidopsis accessions revealed extensive variation in root system architecture and its growth dynamics and identified candidate loci underlying that variation, demonstrating how time-resolved phenomics can connect root form to genotype.
LaRue T, Lindner H, Srinivas A, Exposito-Alonso M, Lobet G, Dinneny JR (2022) Uncovering natural variation in root system architecture and growth dynamics using a robotics-assisted phenomics platform. eLife 11:e76968. doi: 10.7554/eLife.76968
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