Crosses are designed on what is known about the parents, and for stress resilience that knowledge is often thin: a few visual notes taken under whatever conditions the season happened to bring. Complementarity between parents is guessed rather than measured.
PhenoScale flights through the season capture canopy temperature, spectral stress indices, vigor and senescence dynamics on every parental line as stress builds. Cloverfield assembles a multi-trait profile per parent and clusters the panel by phenotypic diversity.
Breeders obtain a quantitative fingerprint of each parent, including how it responds as stress builds, rank parents on resilience and design crosses that maximize complementarity from the first generation. Applicable to maize, sorghum and wheat panels.
