BTI mobile plant phenotyping system: PhenoRig and PhenoCage construction
Li'ang Yu, Magdalena M Julkowska
Abstract
Phenotyping Infrastructures are the basis to enable productive data collection and management. Here - we describe how we constructed the PhenoRig and PhenoCage , the two cost-effective systems which can be constructed with lightweight materials to realize the high-throughput image collection to phenotype plant growth in a growth chamber or a greenhouse workspace.
Steps
Overview
This protocol is a part of BTI mobile plant phenotyping system (https://github.com/Leon-Yu0320/BTI-Plant-phenotyping). In this part, we'll introduce constructing a set of lightweight phenotyping facilities paired with the phenotying computational pipelines we developed.
Materials
Construction of phenoRig and phenoCage
To increase the mobility of phenotyping facilities, lightweight materials such as wood bars and aluminum bars will be recommended. Also, facilities can be disassembled into smaller pieces for storage when anchoring pieces with hexagon socket screws or other types of screws . See two examples below for details:
Installation of Raspberry Pi computers
Raspberry Pi computers will be anchored to both two facilities. We built the device based on the relative size of Arabidopsis plants and cowpea plants and the sizes of each component used for construction were listed in the following tables. Installations of Raspberry Pi cameras and computers are shown as photos below. Details about construction materials, size, and reference cost can be reached in Table 1 and Table 2 .
