Advances in Plant Phenotyping for More Sustainable Crop Production - Hardcover

Walter, Achim: -

Dr Achim Walter is Professor of Crop Science and Head of the Crop Sciences Group in the Department of Environmental Systems Science in the Institute of Agricultural Sciences in ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Professor Walter is a member of the scientific advisory boards of several national and international agricultural research institutions. He is internationally-renowned for his research in image-based phenotyping of plant shoots and roots.

Hawkesford, Malcolm J.: - Professor Malcolm Hawkesford is head of the Plant Sciences Department at Rothamsted Research and leads the Institutes contribution to the UK Designing Future Wheat strategic research programme. He is a Honorary Professor in Plant Sciences in the School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham. He is a crop scientist specializing in cereal research, particularly with regard to resource use efficiency, yield and quality. He is an investigator on multiple international programmes with Brazil and India, is a lead investigator in the Defra-funded Wheat Genetic Improvement Network, participates in multiple BBSRC-funded projects aimed at optimizing resource use in wheat and is the lead scientist for major wheat GMO field experiments at Rothamsted. He is chair of the Nutrient Use Efficiency Expert Working Group of the International Wheat Initiative. At Rothamsted he leads a multidisciplinary team involving molecular studies and field trials. Recently he has led initiatives at Rothamsted on field phenotyping facilities, both utilizing drone technology and a novel ground-based state of the art robotic system.