Advanced phenotyping offers opportunities for improved breeding of forage and turf species

Annals of Botany

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1271-1279

  Walter, Achim ^a   Studer, Bruno ^b   Kölliker, Roland ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

biomass; breeding; Forage; growth; imaging; marker assisted selection; phenotyping; remote sensing; turf

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; BIOMASS; BREEDING POPULATION; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTIVAR; FLUORESCENCE; FORAGE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GRASSLAND; GROWTH RATE; IMAGING METHOD; LABORATORY METHOD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT ARCHITECTURE; PLANT BREEDING; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE;

AGRICULTURE; ANGIOSPERM; BIOMASS; BREEDING; DNA SHUFFLING; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; REVIEW;

AGRICULTURE; ANGIOSPERMS; BIOMASS; BREEDING; DNA SHUFFLING; ECOSYSTEM; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; POACEAE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84868007874     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcs026     Document Type: Review

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