Abstract
Agronomists, plant breeders, and plant biologists have been promoting the need to develop high-throughput methods to measure plant traits of interest for decades. Measuring these plant traits or phenotypes is often a bottleneck since skilled personnel, resources, and ample time are required. Additionally, plant phenotypic traits from only a select number of breeding lines or varieties can be quantified because the “gold standard” measurement of a desired trait cannot be completed in a timely manner. As such, numerous approaches have been developed and implemented to better understand the biology and production of crops and ecosystems. In this chapter, we explain one of the recent approaches leveraging hyperspectral measurements to estimate different aspects of photosynthesis. Notably, we outline the use of hyperspectral radiometer and imaging to rapidly estimate two of the rate-limiting steps of photosynthesis: the maximum rate of the carboxylation of Rubisco (Vcmax) and the maximum rate of electron transfer or regeneration of RuBP (Jmax).
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Fu, P., Montes, C., Meacham-Hensold, K. (2024). Hyperspectral Proximal Sensing for Estimating Photosynthetic Capacities at Leaf and Canopy Scales. In: Covshoff, S. (eds) Photosynthesis . Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2790. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3790-6_18
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