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Protocols and Data Analysis

Here the idea for each of the item is to give a concise and precise description of the method and the different steps used. It may involve an hyperlinking to a paper where the protocol is used and described well. It will also simply describe the equipment that are needed (may be hyperlink to a photo). What would be neat would be to hyperlink to either a video or a set of pictures of the main steps. In blue in the bullet list below would be the proposed hyperlink to connect to the research stream tab.

Also, the ideal situation would be that anyone should be capable, using the tools offered in the web site, to run an analysis after having run a type of experiment using the protocol above. In a number of cases, this would also imply having ready to use templates (like for drydown or for the lysimetric assessments).

Controlled Imposition of Water Stress

Controlled Imposition of Water Stress

The purpose of this protocol is to ensure that the soil water content is kept similar in all the plants being tested during the...

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Transpiration Response to Increasing VPD

Transpiration Response to Increasing VPD

Stomatal opening is sensitive to the evaporative demand (vapour pressure deficit; VPD) and a high VPD reduces stomatal aperture to restrict water...

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Lysimetric Assessments

Lysimetric Assessments

Plants are grown outdoors in lysimeters, i.e., PVC tubes or either 25 cm in diameter and 2.0 m length or 20 cm diameter and 1.2 m length that are filled ...

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Leaf Canopy Development Dynamics

Leaf Canopy Development Dynamics

This is done by continuous scanning of the crop canopy (every 2 hours) with 3D imaging of the leaf area, that consists of projection of a laser line...

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Root Scanning

Root Scanning

The soil sample containing roots are soaked in fresh water, about 10-15 mins, and subjected to moderate tap water flush to form a suspension...

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Seamless Transpiration Dynamics with LeasyScan

Seamless Transpiration Dynamics with LeasyScan

A number of the sectors described above are equipped with analytical scales for a continuous monitoring of the pot weight. The weight is recorded...

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Infra-red Temperature

Infra-red Temperature

Infrared thermal camera can be used to measure plant canopy temperature, which can be used as an indirect proxy for transpiration...

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Inhibition of Aquaporin Mediated and Apoplast Water Transport Pathways

Inhibition of Aquaporin Mediated and Apoplast Water Transport Pathways

For the inhibition of the AQP-mediated water transport pathways, the standard conditions are maintained (plant stage and inhibitor concentration...

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Root Hydraulic Conductivity

Root Hydraulic Conductivity

Hydroponically grown plants of chickpea, pearl millet or sorghum (25 DAS or 6-7th leaf stage) are standardly used to measure...

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Hydroponic Growth

Hydroponic Growth

Investigation of plant hydraulic characteristics (water transport pathway through aquaporins/apoplast and root hydraulic conductivity) can be done...

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Parameterization for SSM Simulation of Legume Species Cultivars

Parameterization for SSM Simulation of Legume Species Cultivars

The SSM (Simple Simulation Modelling) is a family of mechanistic crop models (chickpea version in the previous link), which uses daily weather...

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Parameterization for APSIM Simulation

Parameterization for APSIM Simulation

In our group we use crop models mainly to gain an insight into the crop growth dynamics in complex agricultural systems and fluctuating environments...

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Environmental Characterization

Environmental Characterization

One of the important tasks we use crop model for is characterization of environments (EC) for the major abiotic production constraints (“envirotyping”)...

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