High-Throughput Phenotyping for Crop Physiology and Plant Breeding Workshop was held in Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran (ABRII), with the participation of 23 researchers  from 5 to 6 May, 2018 Karaj-Iran. 
     

      Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schurr, Director at the Institute for Bio- and Geo Sciences, Dr. Roland Pieruschka, Project Management EPPN and Senior Researcher, and Dr. Onno Muller, Senior Researcher and the head of the Field Phenotyping, all from BG-2, Plant Sciences at Forschungszentrum Jülich along with Dr. Babak Nakhoda, Head of the Department of Plant Molecular Physiology at ABRII,  Dr. Ali Akbar Noroozi and Dr. Abdolnabi Abdeh Kolahchi from Soil Conservation and Watershed Management Research Institute of Iran(SCWMRI) presented their lectures at this workshop.
      Moreover, Dr. Xavier Sirault, Director at High Resolution Plant Phenomics Centre, Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Agriculture and Food, Canberra, Australia); Vice Chair IPPN; and Director of Sirault Truffles Pty Ltd presented his lecture entitled “New Frontiers in High-throughput Plant Phenotyping” through Skype.
      The lectures presented at the workshop included “An Introduction to Forschungszentrum Jülich”, “Overview and Demand of Phenotyping activities in Iran”, “Non-Invasive Technology, the Key to Next Generation Phenotyping”, “IPPN and Integrating Plant Phenotyping Community”, “Damage Assessment System for Paddy Lands Supported by Satellite Imagery and Spectroradiometry” and “Active/ Passive Radar Remote Sensing to Extract Hydrology Parameters”.
      It is worth mentioning that plant phenotyping is an emerging science that links genomics with plant ecophysiology and agronomy. The functional plant body (PHENOTYPE) is formed during plant growth and development from the dynamic interaction between the genetic background (GENOTYPE) and the physical world in which plants develop (ENVIRONMENT). These interactions determine plant performance and productivity measured as accumulated biomass and commercial yield and resource use efficiency.