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Omics-driven plant breeding through phenomics-enviromics crosstalk.

PubMed · 2026-06-12

Scientists are combining satellite imagery, drones, and AI to simultaneously track how plants grow and what environmental conditions they experience — creating a feedback loop that makes crop breeding faster and more precise.

Phenotyping (measuring plant traits) is routinely conducted in poorly characterized environments, which limits breeders' ability to separate genetic potential from environmental luck.

Satellites, unmanned aerial vehicles, and ground robots are enabling synchronized, high-throughput collection of both plant and environmental data at scale.

AI-assisted modeling of combined plant-environment datasets is expected to improve crop resilience predictions and accelerate genetic gain in breeding programs.

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