A China-UK joint phenomics consortium to dissect the basis of crop stress resistance in the face of climate change
Lead Research Organisation:
Aberystwyth University
Department Name: IBERS
Abstract
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Publications
Ghahremani M
(2021)
Direct and accurate feature extraction from 3D point clouds of plants using RANSAC
in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
Yang W
(2021)
Editorial: State-of-the-Art Technology and Applications in Crop Phenomics.
in Frontiers in plant science
Ghahremani M
(2021)
Deep Segmentation of Point Clouds of Wheat.
in Frontiers in plant science
Briglia N
(2020)
Image-Based Assessment of Drought Response in Grapevines.
in Frontiers in plant science
Ghahremani M
(2021)
Deep Segmentation of Point Clouds of Wheat
in Frontiers in Plant Science
Duan L
(2018)
Novel Digital Features Discriminate Between Drought Resistant and Drought Sensitive Rice Under Controlled and Field Conditions.
in Frontiers in plant science
Wang M
(2021)
Functions of silicon in plant drought stress responses.
in Horticulture research
Ghahremani M
(2021)
FFD: Fast Feature Detector
in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Sun Y
(2021)
Transcriptomic Characterization of Nitrate-Enhanced Stevioside Glycoside Synthesis in Stevia (Stevia rebaudiana) Bertoni.
in International journal of molecular sciences
Wang R
(2020)
Zinc and Copper Enhance Cucumber Tolerance to Fusaric Acid by Mediating Its Distribution and Toxicity and Modifying the Antioxidant System
in International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Wu D
(2019)
Combining high-throughput micro-CT-RGB phenotyping and genome-wide association study to dissect the genetic architecture of tiller growth in rice.
in Journal of experimental botany
Guan H
(2023)
The locoweed endophyte Alternaria oxytropis affects root development in Arabidopsis in vitro through auxin signaling and polar transport.
in Journal of experimental botany
Guan H
(2021)
Rethinking of the Roles of Endophyte Symbiosis and Mycotoxin in Oxytropis Plants.
in Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland)
Zhou J
(2018)
Plant phenomics: history, present status and challenges
in Journal of Nanjing Agricultural University
Faralli M
(2019)
Water-Saving Traits Can Protect Wheat Grain Number Under Progressive Soil Drying at the Meiotic Stage: A Phenotyping Approach
in Journal of Plant Growth Regulation
Yang W
(2020)
Crop Phenomics and High-Throughput Phenotyping: Past Decades, Current Challenges, and Future Perspectives.
in Molecular plant
Girija A
(2022)
Elucidating drought responsive networks in tef (Eragrostis tef) using phenomic and metabolomic approaches.
in Physiologia plantarum
Sun Y
(2021)
The cross-kingdom roles of mineral nutrient transporters in plant-microbe relations.
in Physiologia plantarum
Wu D
(2021)
A deep learning-integrated micro-CT image analysis pipeline for quantifying rice lodging resistance-related traits.
in Plant communications
Li B
(2019)
The estimation of crop emergence in potatoes by UAV RGB imagery.
in Plant methods
Zhao B
(2021)
Multi-omic dissection of the drought resistance traits of soybean landrace LX.
in Plant, cell & environment
Sun Y
(2021)
Nitrate mediated resistance against Fusarium infection in cucumber plants acts via photorespiration.
in Plant, cell & environment
Wang X
(2021)
The different root apex zones contribute to drought priming induced tolerance to a reoccurring drought stress in wheat
in The Crop Journal
| Description | A number of publications involving data sharing and re-use are in progress. This includes the transfer of rice data to the UK and Miscanthus, wheat and forages data to China. A number of exchanges have taken place but planned ones were delayed during covid. We plan to request a no-cost project extension |
| Exploitation Route | Further grant applications are planned, especially in the machine learning area. 2 studentships have been obtained in UK Reciprocal Exchanges of germplasm have been agreed, including wheat and soybean. |
| Sectors | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Environment |
| URL | https://www.plant-phenomics.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Applying remote sensing to improve nitrogen use efficiency for potato breeding and commercial production: Agri-tech in China: Newton Network + (ATCNN) |
| Amount | £7,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Newton Fund |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2018 |
| End | 02/2019 |
| Description | Dissecting climate robustness for sustain-able wheat production (SUSWHEAT) |
| Amount | 11,045,079 kr. (DKK) |
| Organisation | Independent Research Fund Denmark |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Denmark |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 09/2024 |
| Description | UK- China Phenomics- Metabolomics Network |
| Organisation | Huazhong Agricultural University |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have established wide ranging collaborations focusing on plant phenomics, plant metabolomics and the role of nitrogen in plant stress responses |
| Collaborator Contribution | We are designing new research programmes together and joint publications. The Chinese collaborators cover all of my internal travel and subsistence costs when in China. |
| Impact | This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration involving computer imaging and omic (particularly metabolomic analyses) 1. Sun Y, Wang M, Mur LAJ, Shen Q, Guo S. Unravelling the Roles of Nitrogen Nutrition in Plant Disease Defences. Int J Mol Sci. 2020;21(2). 2. Sun Y, Hou M, Mur LAJ, Yang Y, Zhang T, Xu X, et al. Nitrogen drives plant growth to the detriment of leaf sugar and steviol glycosides metabolisms in Stevia (Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni). Plant Physiol Biochem. 2019;141:240-9. 3. Sun Y, Li Y, Wang M, Wang C, Ling N, Mur LAJ, et al. Redox imbalance contributed differently to membrane damage of cucumber leaves under water stress and Fusarium infection. Plant science. 2018;274:171-80. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | UK- China Phenomics- Metabolomics Network |
| Organisation | Nanjing Agricultural University |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have established wide ranging collaborations focusing on plant phenomics, plant metabolomics and the role of nitrogen in plant stress responses |
| Collaborator Contribution | We are designing new research programmes together and joint publications. The Chinese collaborators cover all of my internal travel and subsistence costs when in China. |
| Impact | This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration involving computer imaging and omic (particularly metabolomic analyses) 1. Sun Y, Wang M, Mur LAJ, Shen Q, Guo S. Unravelling the Roles of Nitrogen Nutrition in Plant Disease Defences. Int J Mol Sci. 2020;21(2). 2. Sun Y, Hou M, Mur LAJ, Yang Y, Zhang T, Xu X, et al. Nitrogen drives plant growth to the detriment of leaf sugar and steviol glycosides metabolisms in Stevia (Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni). Plant Physiol Biochem. 2019;141:240-9. 3. Sun Y, Li Y, Wang M, Wang C, Ling N, Mur LAJ, et al. Redox imbalance contributed differently to membrane damage of cucumber leaves under water stress and Fusarium infection. Plant science. 2018;274:171-80. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | UK- China Phenomics- Metabolomics Network |
| Organisation | Shanxi Agricultural University |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have established wide ranging collaborations focusing on plant phenomics, plant metabolomics and the role of nitrogen in plant stress responses |
| Collaborator Contribution | We are designing new research programmes together and joint publications. The Chinese collaborators cover all of my internal travel and subsistence costs when in China. |
| Impact | This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration involving computer imaging and omic (particularly metabolomic analyses) 1. Sun Y, Wang M, Mur LAJ, Shen Q, Guo S. Unravelling the Roles of Nitrogen Nutrition in Plant Disease Defences. Int J Mol Sci. 2020;21(2). 2. Sun Y, Hou M, Mur LAJ, Yang Y, Zhang T, Xu X, et al. Nitrogen drives plant growth to the detriment of leaf sugar and steviol glycosides metabolisms in Stevia (Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni). Plant Physiol Biochem. 2019;141:240-9. 3. Sun Y, Li Y, Wang M, Wang C, Ling N, Mur LAJ, et al. Redox imbalance contributed differently to membrane damage of cucumber leaves under water stress and Fusarium infection. Plant science. 2018;274:171-80. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Wanneng Yang |
| Organisation | Huazhong Agricultural University |
| Department | College of Veterinary Medicine |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration has involved exchanges and application for partenering award |
| Collaborator Contribution | They have provided expertise in computer vision and phenotyping, Nanjing and HZAU have contributed travel and accommodation costs. HZAU have seconded senior staff to AU for one year and more likely to follow during the duration of the collaboration. HZAU spin-out company provided specialised equipment and software at cost to facilitate the project |
| Impact | Frontiers in Plant Science and J Ex Bot papers; BBSRC partnering award, 2018; novel machine learning software developed for feature recognition and quantification |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Ying Wang Anhui Normal University |
| Organisation | Anhui Normal University |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Training in genetics and phenotyping technologies |
| Collaborator Contribution | Experience in water stress tolerance |
| Impact | ongoing |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | BBC Radio Wales interview for What if ... series on climate change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The series is a chance to highlight ongoing projects with a link to various aspects of climate change. The effect of milder winters was discussed in regard to vernalisation requirement of brassicas (both oilseed rape and vegetables). I was also asked to speculate on how Welsh Agriculture might look in 50 years time. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Fascination of plants, Aberaeron |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | NPPC staff ran a stall, aimed at introducing plant biology and crop breeding to the general public. The exhibits were "hands on" and illustrated bio-diversity, adaptation as well as the use of tachnology to study and improve plants/crops |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | NPPC website and data portal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A general website including information on activities at NPPC, platforms available, resources generated in terms of data and software. A secure access portal is provided for transfer of unpublished data between the Centre and users. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016,2017,2018,2019 |
| URL | https://www.plant-phenomics.ac.uk/ |