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 security without destroying our planet. Our plant phenotyping facilities thus will help to meet the world’s future needs in terms of food and material security: one of the most exciting endeavours for the future.
Plant phenotyping is the game changer that will vastly contribute to make food security possible and sustainable agriculture available.
NPEC offers high throughput and high resolution data from plants both above and below ground. Automatic phenotyping will allow for a dramatic increase in the speed of plant breeding, allowing for a very short time to market for novel crop varieties. NPEC will enable you to make accurate, high-throughput studies of plant performance possible in relation to relevant biotic (microbiome interactions, competition, disease) and abiotic (light quantity and quality, nutrients, temperature, moisture, soil pH and atmospheric CO2 level) factors across a range of scales.
NPEC is a joint initiative of Wageningen University & Research and Utrecht University. This integrated, national research facility is housed by Wageningen University & Research and Utrecht University and is co-funded by The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

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Austria

The Austrian plant Network landscape covers areas of fundamental and applied plant research. From Arabidopsis to trees – from subcellular phenotyping to shoots and roots. The high-throughput plant phenotyping platform at the VBCF PlantS facility is…

Belgium

Addressing global challenges such as climate change and population growth requires continuous improvements in crop performance. To achieve this, innovative approaches are essential to identify superior crop varieties and unravel the genetics behind key…

France

Phenome-EMPHASIS develops a versatile, high-throughput infrastructure and a suite of methods for characterizing hundreds of genotypes of different species under environmental scenarios of climate changes (e.g. drought, high CO2, high temperatures). The…

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,…

Israel

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Italy

The Joint Research Unit (JRU) denominated Italian Plant Phenotyping Network (PHEN-ITALY) was established in 2016. The JRU is coordinated by CNR and gathers people and research facilities actively working on plant phenotyping from 12 research institutes…

Portugal

The phenotyping technologies used by the PT community are mainly low-throughput methods but efforts are being made to update the national facilities.  Access to high-throughput methodologies is essential and has been possible through international…

Switzerland

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United Kingdom

Phenotyping in the United Kingdom spans a range of environments, organs and scales. Both root and shoot phenotyping tools are in everyday use, and vary from custom built laboratory and glasshouse facilities to large scale, commercially sourced, glasshouse…