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News
February 2012. Phenotype Screening Corporation President Dan McDonald presented at the Southern Branch, American Society of Agronomy meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, February 5 - 7. Click here to see Dan's Presentation: "Field Harvested Maize Root Architecture Comparisons under Different Treatments and Tillage Conditions using Soft Tissue X-Ray Imaging."
December 2011. Phenotype Screening Corporation grow room expanded. We can now grow 160 corn plants in one meter deep containers.
October 2011. Phenotype Screening Corporation President Dan McDonald made a presentation at the Crop Science Society of America International Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX, October 16 – 19, 2011. The presentation was to be made by first author Kenton E. Dashiell, Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility (TSBF) Institute of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture; however, Ken was unable to attend as planned. Click here to download this presentation. This is the first public result using Phenotype Screening Corporation's new Automated Analysis Software, RhizoTraits.
May 2011. Professor Emanuel Dzantor has graciously allowed us to show the results of a washed root study that we did for him. Click here to see results of Phenotype Screening Corporation's automated root analysis software.
March 2011. Phenotype Screening Corporation has been awarded a Tennessee Technology Development Corp. grant for the commercialization of our Advanced Plant Characterization for Crop Improvement software.
The purpose of this software is to segment and analyze x-ray images of plant root systems in order to provide information about root size, root mass distribution, root angle and other information of interest to researchers. Please contact us, for further details of this project.
President Dan McDonald presented a poster at the 5th International Symposium of Physiological Processes in Roots of Woody Plants August 8, 2010.
Dan presented a poster entitled "Windthrow Resistance Screening Based on Non-destructive, Low Energy X-Ray Imaging of Early Root Emergence from Poplar Hardwood Cuttings". Click here to download the poster.
Phenotype Screening Corporation President Dan McDonald participated in the Digital Imaging of Roots In-situ Workshop 5th International Symposium of Physiological Processes in Roots of Woody Plants August 8, 2010.
Dan McDonald presented our vision of root imaging and analysis at this conference. Click here to download Dan's slides.
Lisa D. Zachary, University of Tennessee, Knoxville published her Honors Thesis Project "Nutrient delievery system for phenotype screening corporation."
Phenotype Screening Corporation participated under a Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering Senior Design program in March 2009. Her collaborators in the Senior Design program were Haley Baker and Meredith Neal. The project was supervised by Dr. Don Daring. Click here to download Lisa's Thesis.
Phenotype Screening Corporation Chief Scientist Delivers presentaion and poster at PAG
Phenotype Screening Corporation Chief Scientist makes presentation at Plant & Animal Genomes XVII Conference, January 10-14, 2009. Click here to download Bob's slides. Click here to download Poster.
Phenotype Screening Corporation President Dan McDonald made a presentation at the Japan Analytical Instruments Manufacturers’ Association（JAIMA） Expo 2008 Japan.
Click here to download the presentation (in Japanese).
Phenotype Screening Corporation Chief Scientist Delivers Keynote Address at 5th International Symposium on Adventitious Root Formation.
Robert Kodrzycki, Chief Scientist, Phenotype Screening Corporation, delivered a keynote address to the 5th International Symposium on Adventitious Root Formation held June 16 - 20, 2008 at Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain. Click here to download Bob's slides.
Alex Friend, USDA Forest Service makes presentation at ASHS
Alexander L. Friend of the USDA Forest Service made a presentation entitled Below ground management of trees: novel perspectives on imaging at the American Society for Horticultural Science on Monday, July 16, 2007. A portion of this presentation described work done by the Forest Service in collaboration with Phenotype Screening Corporation as a part of a Phenotype Screening Corporation USDA SBIR PhI project. Download presentation.
Phenotype Screening Corporation wins R&D 100 Award.
July 1, 2007, R&D Magazine has announced its 2007 R&D 100 Awards. One of the winners is RootViz FS, the x-ray based plant root visualization method developed by Phenotype Screening Corporation.
This award is presented annually by R&D Magazine to the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace over the past year, as determined by an independent judging panel and the editors of R&D Magazine.
The winning of an R&D 100 Award provides a mark of excellence known to industry, government, and academia as proof that the product is one of the most innovative ideas of the year.
Dan McDonald presents poster at International Poplar Symposium.
Phenotype Screening Corporation President, Dan McDonald, presented a poster at the International Poplar Symposium held in Nanjing, China June 5th through June 9th, 2006. The poster entitled Poplar Root System Characterization for Next Generation Root Research discussed planned research activities under PSC's recently awarded USDA SBIR program.
Dr. Fred Allen, The University of Tennessee, made a presentation at American Society of Agronomy meeting.
Dr. Fred Allen presented a paper at the American Society of Agronomy meeting in Orlando on Tuesday, 7 February 2006 entitled X-ray Based Soybean Root Visualization and Characterization, by Fred Allen, Dan McDonald, Richard Johnson and Ronald Michaels.
Phenotype Screening Corporation was featured in the May 2005 issue of Vision Systems Design
Phenotype Screening Corporation's Technical Director, Ron Michaels, describes the x-ray technology behind our plant root visualization system in the May 2005 issue of Vision Systems Design magazine. Click here.
Phenotype Screening Corporation presents paper at the 51st International Instrumentation Symposium
Phenotype Screening Corporation presented a paper describing our technology to The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society May 11, 2005. A copy of the paper and the presentation are available. Please contact us for a copy.
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