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Ji Li^1,2, Michael A C Mintgen^1,2, Sam D'Haeyer^3,4

¹Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Ghent University Ghent Belgium.

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Summary

A new PhenoWell® system allows individual soil-grown plants to be treated and monitored, improving crop yield research. This high-throughput method reduces variability and compound usage for more precise plant science.

Keywords:

Arabidopsis abiotic stress growth and development high‐throughput screening assays maize nutrients phytohormones plant leaves seedlings soil

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Area of Science:

Agricultural Science
Plant Biology
Biotechnology

Background:

Improving crop yield is crucial as agricultural production faces land and output limitations.
Translating in vitro results to soil conditions is challenging, with current soil-growth assays being resource-intensive and limiting individual plant treatment.
Existing methods often use pots or trays, hindering precise, single-plant interventions and increasing experimental variability.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a novel, flexible, and compact screening system for high-throughput soil-based plant growth analysis.
To enable precise, individual treatment and monitoring of plants grown in soil.
To overcome the limitations of current soil-growth assays in terms of space, resources, and experimental control.

Main Methods:

Development of the PhenoWell® system, a compact screening setup where individual seedlings are grown in soil-filled wells.
Implementation of an automated image-analysis pipeline to extract growth parameters (e.g., projected rosette area, relative growth rate) over time.
Application of various stress treatments (macronutrient, hormone, salt, osmotic, drought) and optimization for different plant species like Arabidopsis and maize.

Main Results:

The PhenoWell® system facilitates high-throughput screening of individual soil-grown plants.
Automated image analysis accurately quantifies multiple plant growth parameters.
The system demonstrated consistent results across different plant species (Arabidopsis and maize) and various treatment types, showing reduced variability and compound usage.

Conclusions:

The PhenoWell® system offers a precise, uniform, and resource-efficient method for applying treatments to individual soil-grown plants.
This approach significantly increases the replicability of experiments and reduces the variability and amount of compounds needed.
PhenoWell® advances plant science research by enabling more accurate and scalable soil-based growth analysis.