The Phenotyping Core Facility, directed by Dr. Katie Murphy, provides researchers with access to state-of-the-art tools for measuring plant growth, development, and stress responses. The facility offers training, self-service, and full-service options, enabling users to collect high-quality data on plant traits from the lab to the field. Our goal is to bring high-throughput plant phenotyping to all plant scientists!
In addition to our service offerings, our team of researchers develops and tests high-throughput phenotyping technologies. This includes new cameras, methods, and analysis tools. When applying these tools, our team focuses on understanding how plants respond to environmental challenges such as drought, heat, and nutrient stress. We use our favorite plant, maize (corn) as a model system. This research supports the development of resilient crops and contributes to global food security. If we can understand what types of corn grow best under hotter, drier conditions – and importantly WHY they grow better – we can begin to breed and engineer better corn.
Check out recent our publications on Katie’s Google Scholar page.
Learn more about PlantCV, our favorite (and free) image analysis software here.
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