Current Statues of Phenomics and its Application for Crop Improvement: Imaging Systems for High-throughput Screening
2011
Lee, S.K., National Academy of Agricultural Science, RDA, Suwon, Republic of Korea | Kwon, T.R., National Academy of Agricultural Science, RDA, Suwon, Republic of Korea | Suh, E.J., National Academy of Agricultural Science, RDA, Suwon, Republic of Korea | Bae, S.C., National Academy of Agricultural Science, RDA, Suwon, Republic of Korea
Food security has been a main global issue due to climate changes and growing world population expected to 9 billion by 2050. While biodiversity is becoming more highlight, breeders are confronting shortage of various genetic materials needed for new variety to tackle food shortage challenge. Though biotechnology is still under debate on potential risk to human and environment, it is considered as one of alternative tools to address food supply issue for its potential to create a number of variations in genetic resource. The new technology, phenomics, is developing to improve efficiency of crop improvement. Phenomics is concerned with the measurement of phenomes which are the physical, morphological, physiological and/or biochemical traits of organisms as they change in response to genetic mutation and environmental influences. It can be served to provide better understanding of phenotypes at whole plant. For last decades, high-throughput screening (HTS) systems have been developed to measure phenomes, rapidly and quantitatively. Imaging technology such as thermal and chlorophyll fluorescence imaging systems is an area of HTS which has been used in agriculture. In this article, we review the current statues of high-throughput screening system in phenomics and its application for crop improvement.
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