Crop Phenotyping With Field Gantries: Throughput, Trait Heritability and What Breeders Actually Use

Authors

  • Caoimhe Roughan Centre for Crop Phenotyping, Bandon Valley Centre for Digital Agriculture, Bandon, Ireland Author
  • Jytte Andersen-Kold Department of Plant Breeding, Sydfyn Centre for Digital Agriculture, Faaborg, Denmark Author
  • Aniceto Cascajares Centre for Crop Modelling, Campo de Cartagena Centre for Digital Agriculture, Torre-Pacheco, Spain Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22664659

Keywords:

Crop Phenotyping With Field Gantries; Agro-informatics; Precision agriculture; Evidence synthesis; On-farm technology

Abstract

Crop Phenotyping With Field Gantries has moved quickly from a research idea to something a working farm can actually use, but
the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the current evidence for crop phenotyping with field gantries,
covering the methodological, practical, governance and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and
where farms and advisors are still largely working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported
by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout or blanket avoidance.

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2024-01-02