Phenotyping for heat tolerance in crops

Globally, climate change-induced warming is posing a major challenge to increasing crop yields in cropping systems including protected cropping systems. Research to improve heat tolerance in these systems have largely focused on leaf traits, in part due to limitation in techniques for investigating other plant parts. However, other plant parts including flowers, green fruits (or spikes in grain crops), and roots may also be key to ensuring overall crop resilience to heat stress. This project aims to develop novel high-throughput tools for characterising traits in non-leaf plant parts.