Enabling platform Z2: Plant cultivation and phenotyping

Project Z2 has a very central role within our CRC because it serves as a coordination platform for all projects within the CRC TRR 341. It ensures that all experiments are performed and analyzed according to common procedures, and will facilitate the comparison of collected data across experiments and projects. Z2 is essential for accurate metadata assembly within the data management platform of the Project Z3 INF.

Project Z2 has the following objectives:

ensuring uniform plant cultivation procedures and data acquisition among TRR 341 projects to allow data integration within the CRC data management platform of the Project Z3 INF;
ensuring optimal utilization of space, equipment and gardener support for all TRR 341 projects;
providing personnel support for plant cultivation.

Project leaders

Prof. Ute Hoecker
Institute for Plant Sciences, UoC

Prof. Maria von Korff Schmising
Institute for Plant Genetics, HHU

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Automate your phenotyping

The Project Z2 is responsible for the management of the phenotyping sensor Phenospex PlantEye f600 Microscan, a multispectral 3D scanner for plant phenotyping. It is accessible to all research groups within the TRR341.

If you are interested to use the PlantEye for your research, read the first-steps guide here and the user guidelines for the Phenospex devices in Cologne and Düsseldorf .

An online booking calendar is used to manage reservations of the PlantEye.

An external waterproof power station is also available to use the PlantEye outdoors, in the absence of electric power.