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ICAR established the state-of-art high throughput plant phenotyping facility at Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, named as Nanaji Deshmukh Plant Phenomic Centre. This facility automatically observe the plants through imaging sensors under controlled environmental condition. The facility has three segments i.e. four climate controlled greenhouses, automated weighing and watering mechanism and six imaging chambers. The six imaging chambers are (i) visual high resolution RGB imaging, (ii) IR thermal imaging, (iii) Chlorophyll fluorescence imaging, (iv) Near Infra-Red imaging, (v) VNIR hyperspectral imaging and (vi) SWIR hyperspectral imaging. The voluminous imaging data taken in imaging chambers are processed through automated image-processing pipeline to derive the various phenotypic traits. These phenotypic traits are analyzed for associated gene through bioinformatics data mining with the aim to understand genotype x environment interactions in a better way.

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Nanaji Deshmukh Plant Phenomics Facility.pdf