Phenomics: The next frontier inclimate resilient crop varietal development: A review

Global agriculture is facing major challenges to ensure global food security, such as the need to breed high-yielding crops adapted tofuture climates. Plant phenotyping provides a set of tools to help researchers better understand gene function and environmental processes. Reliable, autonomous, multipurpose, and high-throughput phenotypic technologies are becoming more significant tools in breeding programs for rapid progression of genetic gain. With the rapid advancement of high-throughput phenotyping technology, research has entered a new era known as phenomics. Here we present an overview of phenomics research, focused on the collecting of phenotypic data utilizing various sensors. Finally, we discuss the crop phenomics’ challenges and prospects in order to make recommendations for developing new methods for mining genes associated with important agronomic traits and proposing new solutions for precision agriculture.