Advances in Field-Based High-throughput Phenotyping and Data Management:
Grains and Specialty Crops

This event was in Spokane, Washington, in November 2015

Objectives:

• Identifying the current status, gaps, and future research needs for field-based high throughput phenotyping to accelerate breeding efforts in grain and specialty crops.
• Taking an integrated effort to develop and share resources (technologies-platforms and sensors, protocols, data processing algorithms, data management procedures) for high-throughput phenotyping.

Desired Outcomes:

• Develop a roadmap to derive field-phenomics future directions.
• Develop a multi-state project as a tool for resource and knowledge sharing through continuing collaboration.
• Develop multidisciplinary teams to develop integrated projects.

Tentative Topics:

• Plant Breeding, Physiology, and Phenotyping
• Sensors and Automation in Field Phenomics
• Data Management Issues
• Education & Private-Public Collaborations

 Speakers and Moderators:

• Amit Dhingra, Ph.D., Washington State University, Plant Genomics and Biotechnology.
• Arron Carter, Ph.D., Washington State University, Winter Wheat Breeding Program.
• David Brown, Ph.D., Washington State University, Modeling Soil Spatial Variability.
• David Slaughter, Ph.D., University of California Davis, Sensing and Automation for High-throughput Phenotyping.
• Dorrie Main, Ph.D., Washington State University, Plant Genome Databases.
• Duke Pauli, Ph.D., Cornell University, High-throughput Phenotyping Technologies in Cotton.
• Edgar Spalding, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Plant Biology and Phenomics.
• Edwin Reidel, Ph.D., LemnaTec.
• Gary McMurray, Ph.D., Georgia Tech, Advanced Robotic Systems.
• Gennaro Fazio, Ph.D., USDA-ARS, Apple Breeding Program.
• Ibrahim Volkan Isler, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Robotics in Phenotyping.
• Jack Okamuro, Ph.D., USDA-ARS, Biotechnology and Genomics.
• Jan Eitel, Ph.D., University of Idaho, Remote Sensing in Agriculture.
• Kate Evans, Ph.D., Washington State University, Pome Breeding Program.
• Laura Lavine, Ph.D., Washington State University, Assistant Director, WSU Agricultural Research Center.
• Lee Kalcsits, Ph.D., Washington State University,Tree Fruit Physiology.
• Martha Narro, University of Arizona, ‎iPlant Collaborative Cyberinfrastructure.
• Sindhuja Sankaran, Ph.D., Washington State University, Advanced Sensing for High-throughput Phenotyping.
• Stefan Schwartz, Phenospex.
• Stephen Ficklin, Ph.D., Washington State University, Systems Genetics and Bioinformatics.
• Vidyasagar Sathuvalli, Ph.D., Oregon State University, Potato Breeding Program.
• Xu (Kevin) Wang, Ph.D., Kansas State University, Field-based High-throughput Phenotyping.

Organizing Team: Drs. Sindhuja Sankaran, Arron H. Carter, David Slaughter, Helmut Kirchhoff, Jack Okamuro, Jesse Poland, Lee Kalcsits.

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