Introduction

The IPK plays a leading role in the development, implementation, and use of technologies and processes for plant phenotype standardization, that is for measuring plant characteristics. Through their application, the performance of important cultivated plants is recorded precisely and with high throughput in the course of their development in the laboratory, greenhouse, and also under natural environmental conditions outdoors. This makes it possible to efficiently detect the factors in the genetic makeup that determine characteristics in their interplay with the environment.