What is cost-efficient phenotyping? Optimizing costs for different scenarios

Plant Science

Volumn 282, Issue , 2019, Pages 14-22

  Reynolds, Daniel ^a   Baret, Frederic ^b   Welcker, Claude ^c   Bostrom, Aaron ^a   Ball, Joshua ^a   Cellini, Francesco ^d   Lorence, Argelia ^e   Chawade, Aakash ^f   Khafif, Mehdi ^g   Noshita, Koji ^h   Mueller Linow, Mark ⁱ   Zhou, Ji ^a,j   Tardieu, François ^c  

^a EARLHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^d Agenzia Lucana di Sviluppo e di Innovazione in Agricoltura   (Italy)

^e ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

ⁱ FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^j NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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Author keywords

Affordable; Cost; Imaging; Information system; Phenomics; Phenotyping

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GENETICS; INFORMATION SYSTEM; PHENOTYPE; PLANT; PROCEDURES;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS;

EID: 85051008045     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: 18732259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2018.06.015     Document Type: Article

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