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The Stalker: An open source force meter for rapid stalk strength phenotyping

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HARDWAREX
Volume 6, Issue -, Pages -

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ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ohx.2019.e00067

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Rapid phenotyping; Stress-strain measurement; Mechanical properties; Biomechanics; Young's modulus

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  1. Minnesota Department of Agriculture [122130]
  2. University of Minnesota Rapid Agricultural Response Fund [AES00RR234]

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Plant breeding programs use easily measured traits to determine plant selection for the next cycle of testing. Often ratings (1-10) are used for generalized biomechanical properties such as lodging, the act of a plant falling over due to environmental conditions. In order to create a more repeatable means of scoring lodging (bending) susceptibility, the Stalker was conceived as a device that could create repeatable and time efficient outputs independent of operator bias by quantifying stalk strength as a proxy for lodging resistance. (C) 2019 Published by Elsevier Ltd.

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