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Plant phenomics is a high-throughput path-breaking area that meets all the requirements for the collection of accurate, rapid and multi-faceted phenotypic data. Plant phenomics is an approach to envisage complex traits that are appropriate for selection, and provides relevant information as to why particular genotype can stand out in particular environmental conditions. The technique of plant phenoty** can be operated in various dimensions, from the gene to the whole-plant level under a specific environment, and management practices. Through this review, we discuss the recent advances in plant phenomics, highlighting different field and confined high-throughput technologies for utilization in forward and reverse genetics. These plant phenomics technique are very relevant in stress identification, study physiological processes, rapid and efficient screening, dissection and confirmation for understanding the genetic basis of different traits, genes and aspects. High-throughput phenomics technologies are essential to avoid human error and to reduce time consumption while phenoty** large germplasm populations, or for confirmation of gene or trait functional analysis.
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Pasala, R., Pandey, B.B. Plant phenomics: High-throughput technology for accelerating genomics. J Biosci 45, 111 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12038-020-00083-w
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