Water use efficiency is a priority trait, but it is normally measured at plot or field scale — too coarse to rank individual genotypes, and blind to the plant-to-plant variation that breeders need to select on.
Ground-based PhenoMobile imaging combines thermal and multispectral data to estimate water use at the single-plant level. Hiphen Intelligence links canopy temperature and spectral stress indices to per-plant water-use and vigour traits.
Researchers and breeders gain fine-grained water-use phenotypes for individual plants, enabling selection for efficiency and a clearer picture of drought response.