Automated whole-plant phenotyping platform for plant productivity and abiotic stress research
Plant-Ditech offers an automated, high-throughput plant phenotyping platform that enables simultaneous, continuous physiological monitoring of whole plants under abiotic stress conditions. The system captures hundreds of daily data points on plant-water-balance and growth parameters, allowing researchers in food, chemical, and bio-ag sectors to assess plant plasticity and treatment effects weeks before visual symptoms appear.
Overview
The PlantArray platform from Plant-Ditech is an automated whole-plant phenotyping system designed to accelerate research into plant productivity and plant responses to abiotic stress. The platform supports food, chemical, and bio-agricultural researchers by enabling rapid performance analyses of plants exposed to drought, salinity, temperature extremes, soil disease, and nematode pressures. By delivering high-resolution, continuous physiological measurements across many plants at the same time, the system helps R&D teams quantify the plasticity of plant responses to dynamic environmental conditions. Distinguished users include Wageningen University, Mars Wrigley R&D, Nestle, and ICL, alongside numerous academic institutions.
Technical specifications
- High-throughput functional phenotyping: simultaneous, continuous monitoring of many whole plants in parallel, ensuring comparative measurements are time-aligned across the array.
- Plant-water-balance physiology: sensors capture transpiration, stomatal conductance, root activity, and related parameters that are directly relevant to abiotic stress responses.
- Flexible stress application: researchers can apply abiotic, soil-borne disease, and nematode stresses in configurable ways to study adaptive plant behavior.
- High temporal resolution: hundreds of data points per day across day-night cycles, capturing plant bio-feedback as the environment changes.
- Software and analytics: automated data collection and analysis tools that replace manual, time-consuming measuring methods with repeatable workflows.
- Personalized support: guidance through system installation, experiment design, and data analysis.
Technology readiness level
The platform is a commercially available product backed by an extensive body of peer-reviewed academic literature. It is deployed by leading industry and academic users, demonstrating operational maturity in real-world R&D environments. The system is ready for adoption by breeding programs, agrochemical developers, and plant scientists seeking to shorten development cycles and gain earlier insights into treatment effects on growth and yield potential.
About Plant-Ditech
Plant-Ditech is a biotechnology research company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Yavne, Israel. The company specializes in developing automated plant phenotyping systems and software, such as the PlantArray platform. This technology utilizes precise sensors to perform high-throughput functional phenotyping, characterizing the physiological responses of whole plants—including water use, root activity, and stomatal function—to various environmental conditions simultaneously. By capturing hundreds of data points daily, the platform enables researchers to quantify the impact of treatments on growth and yield potential under diverse or stressful conditions, often revealing insights weeks before visual changes occur.
These tools are designed to support agro-researchers, plant scientists, and breeders by accelerating research and development cycles and improving efficiency in agricultural projects. The system helps address critical global challenges, including food security, climate adaptation, and environmental sustainability, by facilitating deeper insights into plant-environment interactions. In addition to hardware and software solutions, Plant-Ditech provides personalized support, guiding customers through system installation, experiment design, and data analysis. The company aims to replace manual, time-consuming measuring methods with automated, repeatable technology that enhances precision in crop breeding and agricultural research.
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