ALPHA: A High Throughput System for Quantifying Growth in Aquatic Plants
ABSTRACT The need for more sustainable agricultural systems is becoming increasingly apparent. The global demand for agricultural products—food, feed, fuel and fiber—will continue to increase as the global population continues to grow. This challenge is compounded by climate change. Not only does a...
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| description | ABSTRACT The need for more sustainable agricultural systems is becoming increasingly apparent. The global demand for agricultural products—food, feed, fuel and fiber—will continue to increase as the global population continues to grow. This challenge is compounded by climate change. Not only does a changing climate make it difficult to maintain stable yields but current agricultural systems are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions and continue to drive the problem further. Therefore, future agricultural systems must not only increase production but also significantly decrease negative environmental impacts. One approach to addressing this is to begin breeding and cultivating new plant species that have fundamental sustainability advantages over our existing crops. The Lemnaceae, commonly known as duckweeds, are one family of plants that have potential to increase output and reduce the negative environmental impacts of agricultural production. Herein we describe the Automated Lab‐scale PHenotyping Apparatus, ALPHA, for high‐throughput phenotyping of Lemnaceae. ALPHA is being used for selective breeding of one species, Lemna gibba, toward the goal of creating a new crop for use in sustainable agricultural systems. ALPHA can be used on many small aquatic plant species to assess growth rates in different environmental conditions. A proof of principle use case is demonstrated where ALPHA is used to determine saltwater tolerance of six different clones of L. gibba. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6bc4a02adfd34c11858d86f2c3039f7d2025-08-20T03:14:12ZengWileyPlant Direct2475-44552025-03-0193n/an/a10.1002/pld3.70048ALPHA: A High Throughput System for Quantifying Growth in Aquatic PlantsKassidy A. Robinson0Victoria Augoustides1Tanaka Madenyika2Ryan C. Sartor3Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry North Carolina State University Raleigh NC USADepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill NC USADepartment of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry North Carolina State University Raleigh NC USADepartment of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry North Carolina State University Raleigh NC USAABSTRACT The need for more sustainable agricultural systems is becoming increasingly apparent. The global demand for agricultural products—food, feed, fuel and fiber—will continue to increase as the global population continues to grow. This challenge is compounded by climate change. Not only does a changing climate make it difficult to maintain stable yields but current agricultural systems are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions and continue to drive the problem further. Therefore, future agricultural systems must not only increase production but also significantly decrease negative environmental impacts. One approach to addressing this is to begin breeding and cultivating new plant species that have fundamental sustainability advantages over our existing crops. The Lemnaceae, commonly known as duckweeds, are one family of plants that have potential to increase output and reduce the negative environmental impacts of agricultural production. Herein we describe the Automated Lab‐scale PHenotyping Apparatus, ALPHA, for high‐throughput phenotyping of Lemnaceae. ALPHA is being used for selective breeding of one species, Lemna gibba, toward the goal of creating a new crop for use in sustainable agricultural systems. ALPHA can be used on many small aquatic plant species to assess growth rates in different environmental conditions. A proof of principle use case is demonstrated where ALPHA is used to determine saltwater tolerance of six different clones of L. gibba.https://doi.org/10.1002/pld3.70048duckweedhigh‐throughput phenotypingLemna gibbaselective breedingsustainable agriculture |
| spellingShingle | Kassidy A. Robinson Victoria Augoustides Tanaka Madenyika Ryan C. Sartor ALPHA: A High Throughput System for Quantifying Growth in Aquatic Plants Plant Direct duckweed high‐throughput phenotyping Lemna gibba selective breeding sustainable agriculture |
| title | ALPHA: A High Throughput System for Quantifying Growth in Aquatic Plants |
| title_full | ALPHA: A High Throughput System for Quantifying Growth in Aquatic Plants |
| title_fullStr | ALPHA: A High Throughput System for Quantifying Growth in Aquatic Plants |
| title_full_unstemmed | ALPHA: A High Throughput System for Quantifying Growth in Aquatic Plants |
| title_short | ALPHA: A High Throughput System for Quantifying Growth in Aquatic Plants |
| title_sort | alpha a high throughput system for quantifying growth in aquatic plants |
| topic | duckweed high‐throughput phenotyping Lemna gibba selective breeding sustainable agriculture |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/pld3.70048 |
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