Appearance and uniformity drive vegetable selection, yet organ morphology is usually assessed by harvesting a sample and grading it by hand. The record depends on who graded, when, and which plants were picked, and it is rarely comparable from one breeding cycle to the next.
PhenoScale imaging measures organs directly in the plot: length, width, circularity, concavity and count per plant, plus color and visible defects, on every genotype and every date. Cloverfield keeps the descriptors comparable across cycles, seasons and operators.
Breeders gain objective selection criteria for appearance and uniformity, faster screening of segregating populations and a morphology record that stays consistent through the program, without a single destructive sample.
