SLIDE 1 How high-throughput phenotyping can contribute to cope with climate change
RUC-APS WORKSHOP 14 May 2020
Francesco Cellini
ALSIA, Metapontum Agrobios Research Center
SLIDE 2 Matera Metaponto
ALSIA, BASILICATA, SOUTH ITALY
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Regional Agency for the development and innovation of agrofood and agroindustry sectors through innovation transfer and implementation of Agrofood Development Services (ADS) Headquarter in Matera, a provincial office in Potenza, Agrobios R&D center in Metaponto, 8 Demonstration and Experimental farms, and two extension service units.
ALSIA MISSION AND STRUCTURE
SLIDE 4 tR&D&T activities tAgriculture extension services
(dissemination, technical and
- rganizational consultancy,
marketing)
tFarmer training tAgro-technical services and support
ALSIA ROLE AND ACTIVITIES
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https://youtu.be/6X5RqN03rWI
PLANTS ARE IMPORTANT
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Phenotype and Phenome
An organism phenotype, is the complex of morfological and functional characteristics, the phenome represents all the phenotypes evident in an organism
SLIDE 9 One Genome : Multiple Phenotypes
From Plant Phenomics, from Sensors to Knowledge. (2017) Tardieu et al. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.05.055
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Manual, labour intensive Costs Hidden parameters difficult to detect Sampling, desruptive measurements Local measurements Operator bias and errors
Problems in phenotype analyses:
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Use of imaging remote sensors Automation Computer vision Bioinformatics Integration with IoT No sampling Statistically robust
High Throughput Phenotyping by imaging: Plant Phenomics era
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Imaging of plants. Sensors.
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Imaging of plants. Multilevel & Multiscale.
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Image analyses general pipeline
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- 1. Conveyor system
- 2. Imaging stations
3.Computer station
- Fluorescence/Photosintesys
- Stress indexes
NIR
RGB
- ROI (“Region Of Interest”)
- Digital biomass
- Green and yellow indexes
- Water content
- % drought stress
- Root morphology
- Root Architecture
Plant Phenomics Platform in ALSIA
SLIDE 16 DROUGHT IS AN URGENT PROBLEM
Sentinel Data elaborated by IRPI-CNR
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RESERVOIR WATER AVAILABILITY IN BASILICATA (November 2017) 122 Mcm 1/6 of the total capacity
SLIDE 18 TACKLING WATER SCARCITY WITHIN THE PHENOTYPE SPACE CONTEXT
Environment Taxon or Genotype
Mutants, natural variants, result of genetic crosses.
Management
Agronomical practices Water Light Minerals Microbe Temperature
P h e n
y p e S p a c e
FAO Status of water use efficiency of main crops. SOLAW Background Thematic Report - TR07
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v Biomass, Biovolume, Biomass spatial distribution, etc. v Compactness v Colour index v Health indexes
SLIDE 20 BiomasaDigital= Nuova Formula
å å å
TV + SV + SV = ital BiomasaDig 2 1
Digital biomass = Fresh weight
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3 log 2 1 TV + SV + SV = ital BiomasaDig
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Compactness
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Compactness
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Drought WW
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Root- Visibile (RGB)
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Root- Visible (RGB)
SLIDE 29 vAnalisi in Pianta vAnalisi nel suolo
Near Infra Red (NIR)
Water level in plant and soil
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STUDYING BIOSTIMULANT EFFECTS ON PLANT PHENOTYPE
SLIDE 31 Stress induction 50 ml of water 200 ml of water (recovery) Stress induction 50 ml of water 200 ml of water (recovery)
- 1. RGB (Red-Green-Blue) àDigital biomass
UNTREATED
Biostimulant on tomato - DROUGHT STRESS
SLIDE 32 PLANT GROWTH
Petrozza et al. (2014) Scientia Horticolturae 174:185-192,
SLIDE 33 Biostimolante CONTROL
+ Acqua
HAIRY ROOT
Water uptake in roots
SLIDE 34 Conclusions
- New fast developing technology area
- Integrates multidisciplinaty approach
- Produces and analyze Big Data with AI
approaches
- Speeds up plant breeding and plant
science discoveries
- Supports smart farming development with
proxymal sensing technologies
- Strongly contributes in finding plant
phenotypes resilient to climatic change induced stresses
SLIDE 35 UE I3 Projet ‘Advanced community’
2017-2020 Coordination F. Tardieu 10 M€ Ger, Fr., UK, NL, IT, Bel, Hungary, Finland, Slovakia, Denmark Focus: genetics of adaptation to climate change
- Transnational access : @100 accesses, public and private, 20% outside
UE
- Joint research activities : Model assisted phenotyping
Trans-plaform analysis Information systems
Beginning, May 2017
EPPN2020
https://eppn2020.plant-phenotyping.eu
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