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Description
Agroecological transition aims to redesign agricultural systems based on ecological principles while maintaining productivity and ecosystem service provision under increasingly heterogeneous and dynamic environmental conditions. Achieving this transition requires quantitative approaches capable of assessing crop performance, stability, resilience, and service delivery within complex, multiscale agroecosystems.
While plant phenotyping has already substantially contributed to crop improvement and management innovation, further methodological and technological developments are needed to address the complexity of agroecosystems. This presentation explores how plant phenotyping can support agroecological transition by evolving beyond its traditional focus on performance traits of individual crops toward an agroecological phenotyping framework targeting above and belowground traits linked to ecosystem functions and services, including resource capture and use efficiency, facilitation and competition among species, resilience to environmental variability, and the delivery of ecosystem services. This approach can support both crop breeding and agroecological management strategies and connect processes across organizational scales, from plants and fields to landscapes. Advancement of plant phenotyping towards agroecological phenotyping represents an essential step to provide the knowledge and tools required to accelerate and scale the agroecological transition.
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