The Institute for Plant Sciences gave a college-wide update on the progress it's made on the goals outlined in 2013 as part of Purdue Moves.
If you have any questions, please contact plantspl@purdue.edu.
3. About
• Component of Purdue Moves, a series of university initiatives announced
by President Mitch Daniels in 2013
• More than $20M invested in plant sciences since fall 2013
• Brings together multidisciplinary research and education
• Developing phenotyping technology to enhance research, teaching,
extension
• Renamed the Institute for Plant Sciences to align with the other Life
Science Institutes
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4. Pipeline
• Expand basic plant biology
• Automate phenotyping to link genes with observable traits
• Integrate data streams using robust analytic platform
• Move technology from research to commercialization
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5. Center for Plant Biology
Clint Chapple
Director, Center for Plant Biology
6. Center for Plant Biology
Update
Expanding research and education in basic plant biology
7. What is CPB?
• Established through Purdue Moves to expand research and education in
basic plant biology
• Interdepartmental community of 32 faculty who share an interest in basic
plant biology
• Enhance graduate student training in basic plant sciences
• Support research of participating members through collaboration,
mentoring, and discussion
• Renamed from Center for Molecular Agriculture to CPB to reflect its
mission within the Institute for Plant Sciences
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8. New Hires
• 10 new faculty members – seven on campus, two arriving this semester,
and one arriving January 2018
• Six – Department of Botany and Plant Pathology
• Three – Department of Biochemistry
• One – joint appointment in Department of Entomology and Department of
Forestry and Natural Resources
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9. Membership
• Finalized membership agreements and faculty applications
• 32 faculty from seven departments and two colleges
• 10 members hired under Institute for Plant Sciences
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10. Progress
• Biweekly faculty meetings to discuss next steps and future initiatives
• CPB Symposium associated with the Midwest ASPB meeting
• Web presence and graduate student recruitment material being developed
• Reduced rates for CPB faculty – Bindley Bioscience Center
• CPB Seminar Series co-hosted with departments – starting in September
• CPB Seed Grant program – proposals due in September and funding
announcements in October
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11. Molecular Agriculture Summer Institutes
and Educational Initiatives
Amy Jones
Plant Sciences Recruitment and Outreach Coordinator
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Pre-College MASI
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16
18
2015 2016 2017
Participants
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8
2015 2016 2017
Mentors
Future: 25 students
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TOTAL
Future: Sustain 8 Mentors
Increase involvement
4Departments
Representing
College Decisions
22 College-age
18 Applied to Purdue
15 Purdue Students
8 (50%+) in Ag
4 (25%+) in Engineering
3 in other Colleges
Discovery Mentorship Belonging
14. Other Initiatives and Looking to the Future
Pre-College
Funding
Questions
Amy Jones
jones176@purdue.edu
Teaching Lab SpacesLearning Community
Student Participation
Undergraduate
16. Controlled Environment Phenotyping Facility (CEPF)
• End of September 2017 – building shell construction complete
• Fall 2017 – equipment delivered
• Approx. 7 different vendors
• Week of August 21 – Conviron large growth chamber arrived;
assembly over next few weeks
• Late September – conveyors and camera imaging systems arrive
from Netherlands
• February 2018 – equipment installation and initial testing
complete
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17. CEPF features
• Conviron Growth House
• 256 plant capacity Growth House with precise environmental
controls
• Automated conveyors for plant growth and randomization
• Argus Multi-feed Nutrient Injection
• Fully automated precise weight-based water dosing and water
to saturation options
• Single nutrient limitation with gradient control
• Imaging System for plants up to 4m high
• RGB – high throughput morphology, geometry, biomass, plant
size, and color
• Top-view and multiple side-view cameras
• Segmentation: chlorophyll fluorescence to detect plant tissues
• Up to 150 plants per hour
• Hyperspectral
• Color, vegetative indices, physiological status, and
pigmentation
• Up to 70 plants per hour
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18. CEPF equipment factory acceptance
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• The equipment for the CEPF is custom
made. In August, we inspected and verified
the conveying and camera equipment was
correct for the facility.
19. ISAL software demonstration at Netherlands Grower
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• Equipment review included a
sneak peak of the ISAL software
being developed to image and
move our plants.
• This software will enable the
different vendors to communicate
opening doors, watering, and
imaging plants.
• The software will enable us to
capture images and will work
with other packages, including
the ones were are developing
here at Purdue for data graphs
and analysis.
21. Potential Applications
• Seedlings to mid sized plants
• Genotype performance
• Fertility and water responses
• Herbicide damage
• Soil contaminants
• Soil microbes
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22. TopView Imager
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• Imaging cabinet for basic phenotyping
• Captures eight spectral bands
• Stitches Red, Green, and Blue bands to form a RGB image
• Automatically segments data into parameters and
histograms
• Starting point for digital phenotyping
23. Time Lapse Image Data and Leaf Count
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Channel Color Wavelength (nm)
0 Deep blue 450
1 green 520
2 yellow 590
3 amber 634
4 red 660
5 hyper red 730
6 infra red 870
7 white 400-700
Leaf count
24. Parameter Data
plant nr length (mm) width (mm) center x center y grid row grid col plant area (mm2) plant convex hull area (mm2) longest radial (mm) roundness avg hue avg sat avg val
plant 1 140.46 619.419 1442 224 0 0 218778 367050 387.243 232.997 65.485 8.11198 124.632
plant 2 213.285 619.419 1646 407 0 0 469879 614042 358.576 67.0578 58.9705 8.94594 115.557
plant 3 163.005 619.419 1544 277 0 0 297110 443456 371.716 166.096 57.8946 8.69574 121.652
plant 4 20.6042 55.4963 1358 1781 0 0 3451.65 4591.14 36.9934 36.3893 30.8044 69.3358 60.5648
plant 5 77.1741 91.8922 1701 1859 0 0 12079.4 34709.3 65.5914 256.655 29.874 63.5456 64.4642
plant 6 25.8489 46.5033 2052 1592 0 0 3935.48 5922.76 28.9074 53.5608 28.3247 71.6823 71.8321
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• Automatically segments masked image
• Plant characteristic data for each plant
• Calculates a mean for each Hue Saturation
and Value (HSV)
• Histogram for HSV and gray scale
• Provides repeatable objective measurements
• User friendly interface
Segmented data from Topview imager
25. Indiana Corn and Soybean
Innovation Center
Jason Adams
Advance Phenotyping & Plant Processing Facility Manager
26. ICSC Users
• Approx. 40 different labs or groups have used the
facility
• During the winter and spring the seed processing
areas became very active
• Threshing and shelling
• Plant and seed grinding
• Seed treating
• Seed counting and weighing
• Root washing and scanning
• Summer has brought in higher numbers to the
imaging and sensor development areas
• Pilot work area
• PhenoRover development
• Break room for ICSC and ACRE users
• Meeting space for labs or groups
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27. ICSC Tours
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180 individual tours with a total of over 3300 guests
• Over 40 groups were student groups, including Bourlaug Scholars, MASI,
FFA, 4-H, Mandela Washington Fellows and Ivy Tech
• Individuals or groups from over 20 countries have walked through ICSC
28. New and Donated Equipment
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• Ear Photometry Box with the capability to
make approximately 30 different ear and
kernel measurements
• 2 Root washing stations for washing root
samples down prior to measurements
• 1 large ice machine for research use
• 2 Li-COR 6400 Portable Photosynthesis
System
29. Meeting and Classroom Space
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• Student Innovation Hub now has
projector and large screen
• Three small conference rooms
equipped with phones; one also
equipped with a monitor
• Data command converted into dual
purpose room; now equipped with
projector, large screen, and 22
classroom seats
30. Indiana Corn and Soybean Endowment Innovation
Grants - 2017
• Development of a Plant Tattoo for Managing Crop Stress – d
development of chromatic biosensors for heat stress and ABA content
• Chongli Yuan, Chemical Engineering, Alexander Wei, Chemistry
• Development of a Universal Method for High-Throughput Automated
Root Phenotyping to Identify Root Traits in Soybean
• Gordon McNickle and Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi - Botany and Plant Pathology, Jian
Jin- Ag and Biological Engineering
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32. First full year
• Flights from May 2017 through the present
• Our own 5-band multispectral camera (RedEdge)
• Our own flying platforms
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3DR Solo
33. Contracted flights • ~100 acres
• All maize
• Bi-weekly flights
• Low cost
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RGB
NDVI
(false color)
Close up (brown areas are
Bare spots between plots)
37. Experiences and further work
• Remainder of 2017
More flights
More plot-level data
Ground truthing – own, researcher, ARPA-E!
Further development of data delivery methods
• 2018
Same camera and flight platforms
Anticipate more serving more researchers
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39. Foster Entrepreneurship
• Ag-celerator Summary
• 28 involved in Launchbox excluding students
• 2 rounds, 4 companies funded – Phicrobe, HyroGrow,
Akanocure, Vinsense
Phicrobe
-designed to enhance
food safety in plant
based products
40. Round 2 – Ag-Celerator winners
Akanocure - Bioinspired
molecule development for
agrochemicals
Vinsense – decision making
tool for water use in crops
41. Ag-Celerator Fall 2017 Timeline
Sept 14 Sept 28 Oct 5 Oct 12
Oct 16-
Nov 22
Nov 26 Nov 27 Dec 18 Dec 19
Questions to pvinfo@prf.org
Callout Application
Deadline
Semi-finalists
Announced
Mandatory
Semi-finalist
Meeting
Firestarter
Training at
the Foundry
Final
Materials
Upload
Deadline
Finalists
Announced
Demo Day Awards
Announced
43. 26 Years of ISA
Student Soybean Product Innovation Competition
• 16 Teams completed the 2016-2017 competition, 5 provisional patents
• 50 students
• Representing 20 different majors from the Colleges of Agriculture,
Engineering, Pharmacy, Science, and Business (5)
• Focuses on generating product ideas and proofs of concept with
preliminary market analysis
44. Execution
• Pilot program Summer of 2017
• Students who completed the contest invited to apply
• 6 Student interns selected to work on 5 projects
• Projects = product ideas from competition (provisional patents, other vetted
concepts)
• Partnership between Purdue Foundry and Laboratory of Renewable Resources
Engineering/ABE for student mentoring and oversight
Funding
• Purdue Ag-celerator Program
ASPIRE
Ag Soy Product Innovation Realization and Entrepreneurship
Internship Program
45. ASPIRE Program
• FIRESTARTER: “Bootcamp”
• Customer DiscoveryEntrepreneurship
• Business Plan Development
• Networking and Entrepreneur-in-Residence Mentoring Micky Creech
Competition and
ASPIRE Coordinator
2017 ASPIRE Interns
46. ASPIRE Ag-Celerator Demo Day
• 6 Teams pitched their companies to the Ag-Celerator Selection Committee
on August 18, 2017.
• Recommendations for funding were made (official announcements
forthcoming)
NeoSeed
SoyaMein
Absoybeancy
Soy Metal Adsorbent
SoyPoofession
FiltraSoy