The European Infrastructure for Multi-scale Plant Phenomics and Simulation (EMPHASIS) is a distributed Research Infrastructure with the aim to develop and provide access to facilities and services addressing multi-scale plant phenotyping in different agro-climatic scenarios. It will establish an integrated European phenotyping infrastructure to analyse genotype performance under diverse environmental conditions and quantify the diversity of traits contributing to performance in diverse environmental conditions − plant architecture, major physiological functions and output, yield components and quality. EMPHASIS addresses the technological and organizational limits of European phenotyping, for a full exploitation of genetic and genomic resources available for crop improvement in changing climate.
Entered the ESFRI Roadmap in 2016, EMPHASIS establishes a sustainable and innovative RI for plant phenotyping by linking and developing national initiatives, amongst which are: national platforms with (semi)-controlled conditions for high-resolution phenotyping and high-throughput phenomics, experimental fields with control of rainfall and CO2 highly-equipped with phenotyping devices, a coordinated network of field experiments in distributed sites with lighter but efficient phenotyping close to practical breeding set-ups, and modelling platforms to test existing and virtual combinations of alleles in different climates and management practices. Currently, political support to EMPHASIS has been expressed by 12 countries and there is an increasing investment in plant phenotyping across Europe.
Forschungszentrum
Jülich, Jülich, Germany
pending
distributed
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