The principal goal of digital technologies coupled with Artificial Intelligence for agriculture is to provide precision and forecasting to improve productivity, and resource preservation, to help in decision-making for sustainable agriculture.

6 -7 October 2023:

An Open plenary conference was organized at the Higher Institute of Biotechnology of Sfax (ISBS).

Main topics

-Phenomics and controlled monitoring of plant growth.

-Al in plant phenomics

Keynote speakers* 

Prof. JP SCHNITZLER (HMGU, Germany):

Presentation 1: “In-depth Phenotyping to decipher Plant Functional Traits: Volatilomics “The secret smell of plants and fungi – How we can use it for plant phenotyping & environmental studies“

Presentation 2: “Metabolomics: Deciphering metabolic traits in plant-insect & plant-microbe interactions”

Presentation 3: “Non-invasive imaging of plant functional traits “High throughput phenotying of agronomic traits for plant breeding”

Dr. Bart VAN GANSBEKE (VIB Agro-Incubator, Ghent, Belgium): “Presentation of the automatic phenotyping platform (@ VIB Agro-Incubator)”

Dr. Andrea VISIONI ( ICARDA): “Introduction to the physiological breeding and phenomics”

Dr. Bassem BOUAZIZ (USF): “Applying Deep Learning for plant Biodiversity”

Prof. Ji ZHOU (NIAB, Cambridge, UK): “Combining multi-scale phenotyping, AI-powered trait analysis and genetic mapping to bridge the gap between lab-based research with in-field crop improvement”.

*if interested in the presentations, please contact us at inplantomics@usf.tn