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Controlled Conditions
CONTROLLED CONDITIONS
High-throughput phenotyping in greenhouses and growth chambers with tightly controlled environments.
These platforms let researchers test trait variation under defined abiotic/biotic conditions (e.g., light, temperature, humidity, CO₂, soil water/nutrients) and simulate stress scenarios with high repeatability. Automation either moves plants past fixed stations (weighing/watering and imaging) or brings sensors to stationary plants.
Typical sensing suites include RGB, multispectral/hyperspectral, thermal, and chlorophyll-fluorescence imaging, often paired with gravimetric watering and gas-exchange to derive growth, water-use, and stress metrics. Throughput commonly spans hundreds to thousands of plants, while ‘deep phenotyping’ setups trade throughput (tens to hundreds) for finer physiological resolution at minutes-to-hours timescales.