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Research Project: Advancing Technologies for Grain Trait Measurement and Storage Preservation

Location: Stored Product Insect and Engineering Research

Title: Crop seed phenomics: Enabling nondestructive phenotyping approaches for characterization of functional and quality traits

Author
item HACISALIHOGLU, GOKHAN - Florida A & M University
item Armstrong, Paul

Submitted to: Plants
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 3/2/2023
Publication Date: 3/4/2023
Citation: Hacisalihoglu, G., Armstrong, P.R. 2023. Crop seed phenomics: Enabling nondestructive phenotyping approaches for characterization of functional and quality traits. Plants. 12(5):1177. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12051177.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12051177

Interpretive Summary: Seeds play a critical role in ensuring food security to over 7.9 billion people globally. Consequently, the development of robust, rapid, and high-throughput methods is required for seed quality evaluation and acceleration of crop improvement. There has been considerable progress in various nondestructive phenomics methods in the past 20 years. This review highlights recent advances in seed phenomics techniques, emphasizing near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) platforms. Furthermore, the potential applications of NIRS are expected to continue rising as more seed researchers and growers successfully adopt it as a powerful nondestructive method for seed quality phenomics. It will also discuss the advantages and limitations that need to be solved for each technique. It will also discuss how each method could help breeders and industry for trait identification, measurement, classification, and screening or sorting of seed nutritive traits. Finally, it will cover future outlook on how to promote, accelerate crop improvement and reduce costs.

Technical Abstract: Seeds play a critical role in ensuring food security to over 7.9 billion people globally. Consequently, the development of robust, rapid, and high-throughput methods is required for seed quality evaluation and acceleration of crop improvement. There has been considerable progress in various nondestructive phenomics methods in the past 20 years. This review highlights recent advances in seed phenomics techniques, emphasizing near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) platforms. Furthermore, the potential applications of NIRS are expected to continue rising as more seed researchers and growers successfully adopt it as a powerful nondestructive method for seed quality phenomics. It will also discuss the advantages and limitations that need to be solved for each technique. It will also discuss how each method could help breeders and industry for trait identification, measurement, classification, and screening or sorting of seed nutritive traits. Finally, it will cover future outlook on how to promote, accelerate crop improvement and reduce costs.