Fluctuating light experiments and semi-automated plant phenotyping enabled by self-built growth racks and simple upgrades to the IMAGING-PAM

Published in Plant Methods, 2019

Recommended citation: Dominik Schneider, Laura S. Lopez, Meng Li, Joseph D. Crawford, Helmut Kirchhoff & Hans-Henning Kunz. (2019). "Fluctuating light experiments and semi-automated plant phenotyping enabled by self-built growth racks and simple upgrades to the IMAGING-PAM. " Plant Methods. 15(156). https://plantmethods.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13007-019-0546-1#Abs1

This paper demonstrates how affordable hobby-level electronics supplies can be used to discover light-sensitive mutant plant phenotypes and genotypes. My contribution was building and coding the very simple script of the microcontroller. This is a fun example of how hobby electronics integrated into plant physiology and genetics research.

Fluctuating light Chamber pic

Microcontroller pics

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citation: ‘Dominik Schneider, Laura S. Lopez, Meng Li, Joseph D. Crawford, Helmut Kirchhoff & Hans-Henning Kunz. (2019). "Fluctuating light experiments and semi-automated plant phenotyping enabled by self-built growth racks and simple upgrades to the IMAGING-PAM. " Plant Methods. 15(156).’