Ireland

Agriculture in Ireland

Agriculture, including the production of food, fodder, and timber, is a cornerstone of the Irish economy. Research efforts focus on enhancing yields for grass, fodder, forest, cereal, and horticultural crops, which are vital to the dairy, meat, timber, food, and brewing industries. The unique Irish climate also drives significant research on mitigating plant pathogens and diseases. 

The national plant phenotyping network (PPN-Ireland)

Formally established in 2016, the National Plant Phenotyping Network (PPN-Ireland) connects eight institutes and universities across the country. Supported by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), the network has benefited from substantial investments in cutting-edge phenotyping infrastructure, such as PICS (Physiology Infrastructure for Crop Stress), €1.2M project at UCD, and the Phenomics and Future Experimental Platform, a €1.3M project. 

 

Teagasc and distributed research centres

TTeagasc, Ireland’s state agriculture and food development authority, complements these efforts with a network of distributed research centres. These facilities phenotype a wide variety of crops—including forage, horticultural, combinable, root, and forestry crops—across controlled environments, glasshouses, and fields.

Integrating phenotyping with breeding and bioinformatics

Integrated molecular biology and bioinformatics resources enable the application of phenotype data in breeding programs using marker-assisted or genomic selection. These tools support both in-house breeding programs (e.g., potato, ryegrass, and clover) and external collaborations, advancing Ireland’s role in global agricultural research and innovation.

Agriculture in Ireland

Agriculture, including the production of food, fodder, and timber, is a cornerstone of the Irish economy. Research efforts focus on enhancing yields for grass, fodder, forest, cereal, and horticultural crops, which are vital to the dairy, meat, timber, food, and brewing industries. The unique Irish climate also drives significant research on mitigating plant pathogens and diseases. 

The national plant phenotyping network (PPN-Ireland)

Formally established in 2016, the National Plant Phenotyping Network (PPN-Ireland) connects eight institutes and universities across the country. Supported by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), the network has benefited from substantial investments in cutting-edge phenotyping infrastructure, such as PICS (Physiology Infrastructure for Crop Stress), €1.2M project at UCD, and the Phenomics and Future Experimental Platform, a €1.3M project. 

 

Teagasc and distributed research centres

TTeagasc, Ireland’s state agriculture and food development authority, complements these efforts with a network of distributed research centres. These facilities phenotype a wide variety of crops—including forage, horticultural, combinable, root, and forestry crops—across controlled environments, glasshouses, and fields.

Integrating phenotyping with breeding and bioinformatics

Integrated molecular biology and bioinformatics resources enable the application of phenotype data in breeding programs using marker-assisted or genomic selection. These tools support both in-house breeding programs (e.g., potato, ryegrass, and clover) and external collaborations, advancing Ireland’s role in global agricultural research and innovation.

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Austria

APPN brings together Austria’s plant phenotyping community; researchers, breeders, data scientists, technology developers to build shared infrastructure and methods, promote collaboration, and raise the profile of phenotyping nationally and in Europe

Belgium

EMPHASIS-Belgium, the national node located in the host country for EMPHASIS-ERIC, takes a collaborative and service-oriented approach around multiscale plant phenotyping in Belgium via cutting-edge facilities, access provision and community engagement.

France

Phenome-Emphasis develops and provides access to a series of highly skilled indoor and field platforms while supporting tissue biochemistry, image analysis and data management services. These multi-scales evaluation of collections of genotypes across…

Israel

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Italy

The Italian Plant Phenotyping Network – PHEN-ITALY is a Joint Research Unit (JRU) composed of 18 partners whose mission is to promote, coordinate and facilitate the participation of the scientific community to national research on plant phenotyping, also…

Netherlands

Plants are absolutely essential to our future, where almost all our food, feed and materials will be derived from plants. Our aim is to enable the development of novel adaptive crops and cropping systems required for future food production and food…

Norway

PheNo provides a distributed national infrastructure across Norway for high-resolution controlled environment, field and seed phenotyping and data analysis services to support research and educational needs in academia and industry.

Portugal

Under EMPHASIS.PT, Portugal has established a cohesive plant phenotyping community. This network joins leading universities, research institutes, and collaborative labs from mainland Portugal and Madeira, ensuring a wide territorial coverage. The…

Switzerland

The research themes of the SPPN cover a wide range, from fundamental ecological and biological research using model plants and crops, to applied research in field and orchard crops. Plant phenotyping infrastructure is available at the landscape, field and…

United Kingdom

PhenomUK comprises 15 research centres and universities housing controlled and field environment platforms organised into 8 targeted clusters: photophysiology, 3D and growth, health and disease, protected environments, drones, deep field, advancing…

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