What is Plantarray
Plantarray is a high-throughput, multi-sensor physiological phenotyping gravimetric platform. This plant phenotyping system performs quick plant screening based on precise physiology traits measurements that are great indicators for yield potential with proven high correlation to field yield results.
Key Benefits
- Fully automated phenotyping system -
Control | Measure | Analyze - Quick test cycles: few days/ weeks instead of seasons
- Accelerates agriculture research, shortens new products time to market
- Quantitative, consistent results , scientifically proven
- Whole plant, root, shoot, environment measurements
- Precise personalized control of soil and water conditions
- Multi- treatments control
- More product varieties and environments testing
- Enhance research
- Focused field trials
- Continuous, simultaneous bio-feedback
- Detects immediate plants responses, much earlier than the eye/ image
- Modular in size and budget
- No need for infrastructure investments
The Plantarray System - Functional Phenotyping
The phenotyping method is to continuously and simultaneously measure the momentary-varying water flux in the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere (SPAC) for each plant in the array under varying ambient conditions.
The direct measurement of plant water balance and biomass gain that is determined for the root and shoot enables the rapid evaluation (within days) of the plant yield potentioal in a dynamic environment
This phenotyping system provides a quantitative comparison of the plant response to different treatments and the precise prediction of plant growth and productivity in an efficient, easy-to-use, non-invasive manner.
Plantarray measures, at high frequency, the plant response to the dynamic environmental conditions
Key Traits
| Traits precision | Plantarray | Other Gravimetric | Imaging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Biomass Gain | High, Direct | None | Low, Indirect |
| Transpiration | High, Direct | Direct, Limited | Low, Indirect |
| Water Use Efficiency | High, Direct | None | Low, Indirect |
| Nutrients Use Efficiency | High, Direct | None | Low, Indirect |
| Root Activity | High, Direct | None | None |
| Stomatal Canopy Conductance | High, Direct | None | None |
| Soil Water Content, Temperature, EC | High, Direct | Low, Indirect | None |
| Salinity Level (EC) | High, Direct | None | None |
| Drought Resistance & Recovery Index | High, Direct | None | None |
| Identify the Drought Stress Point | High, Direct | None | None |
| Atmospheric Parameters, VPD | High, Direct | Partial | Partial |
| Environmental Sensing (PAR, PH, Wind & more) | High, Direct | None | None |
Key Diagnostic Abilities
| Diagnostic-Abilities | Plantarray | Other Gravimetric | Imaging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quantitative Measurements | High | High | Low |
| High Resolution Sampling | High | High | Low |
| Simultaneous Measurements (Same Conditions) | High | High | Low |
| Multiple Personalized Treatments | High | Low | Low |
| Randomized Structure | High | Low | Low |
| Real-Time Analysis | High | Mid | Low |
Application fit
| Application Fit | Plantarray | Other Gravimetric | Imaging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drought Stress | High | Mid | Low |
| Salinity & Heavy Metals Stress | High | Mid | Low |
| Fertigation / Nutrients | High | Mid | Low |
| CO2 Indication | High | Mid | Low |
| Heat & Cold Stresses | High | Mid | Low |
| Light | High | Mid | Low |
| Plant Health | Early Detection | Low | Late Detection |
Key Features
- Precise direct measurements of key physiological yield-related traits
- Control irrigation via various modes - time, weight, soil moisture, daily transpiration and more
- Automated and simultaneous measurement of individual plants in the array
- High spatial and temporal resolutions
- 24/7 continuous measurement of the shoot, root and environment
- Unique feedback-based irrigation control
- Cloud-based real-time statistical analytics
- Whole plant, non-invasive measurements
- Suitable to most plants, soil types and growth stages
Over a Decade in The Making
The reliable and robust Plantarray plant phenotyping equipment is the outcome of over 10 years’ research using weighing lysimeters (gravimetric system) to monitor different plant responses under varying environmental conditions.
Our long-term experience with gravimetric systems is implemented in every part of the system, each pot is placed on a highly accurate gravimetric load cell. The gravimetric load cell is connected to a control unit that continuously measures the pot weight 24/7, and enables further calculation of its physiological traits.
Custom made control unit
- Contains two self-controlled valves for maximum irrigation and fertigation flexibility
- Enables automated, personalized, plant-specific feedback irrigation
- Each control unit is built to hold up to four additional sensors
- Although all interconnected, failure in one unit does not affect the others
- Reduces noise and the requirement for lengthy cables
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